mayapple

NOUN
  1. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit
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  • Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
  • Farther back, there's furtive jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple, and along our driveway, wild columbine's whiskered pendants.
  • And there are native wildflowers, such as mayapple, Jack-in-the-pulpit, and foamflower.
  • We hypothesized that there might be great variation with respect to podophyllotoxin content within American mayapple across the eastern United States. THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • I have christened it the ‘Mandrake’ (the name used for the mayapple [Podophyllum peltatum] by various 16 th- and 17 th-century English poets).
  • Thanks in part, however, to a medicine created from molecules identified in an African flower, an American mayapple tree and a soil bacterium, doctors were able to save his life. Alliance for Global Conservation: Guest Post: Sam Blackman & Dana McCreesh - Conservation Helps Those Who Are Most Helpless
  • DiaryLand contact other diaries: licoriceroot mayapple organic nipple thousands croix-en smoke glasswater vocalfern licoriceroot mangotuesday trailways softblossoms daucuscarota Breadfruit Diary Entry
  • Herbaceous associates of the forest communities include large-flowering trillium, mayapple, violets, troutlillies and other woodland spring species. Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio
  • They might remind you of mayapple or of pachysandra.
  • Violets, wild geranium, mayapple, and blue phlox bloom in April and May.
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