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 Plants Belonging to the Genus 'Cassia'
Cassia oligophylla (Limestone Cassia, Oval-leaf Cassia) synonym of Senna artemisioides ssp.
Cassia wislizeni (Shrubby Senna) synonym of Senna wislizeni
Cassia sturtii (Dense senna, Grey Desert Senna) synonym of Senna artemisioides ssp.
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 Plants Belonging to the Genus 'Cassia'
Cassia polyphylla synonym of Senna polyphylla (Retama Prieta, Desert Cassia.)
Cassia lindheimeriana synonym of Senna lindheimeriana (Lindheimer Senna, Velvet Leaf Senna)
Cassia berterii synonym of Senna bicapsularis (Winter Cassia)
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 Cinnamon/Cassia/Canel
"The spice named cassia should not be confused with the large genus Cassia in the Leguminosae or pea family from which senna leaves are obtained." "Cassia bark resembles true cinnamon bark but is coarser and thicker, has a more intense aroma, has a higher essential oil content, and is not so delicately flavored as cinnamon.
It is in the same genus as Senna and is sometimes called "Coffee Senna" since its seeds, found in long seed pods, are sometimes roasted and made into a coffee-like beverage.
Various Cassia plants have been known since the 9th or 10th century as purgatives and laxatives including Cassia angustifolia and Cassia senna which is known as Senna.
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 Picture Senna,Plants,Senna Tree Pictures,Catalog,Trees Encyclopedia
Date : 7/28/2005 Time : 9:32:00 AM Senna is any herb, shrub, or tree of the genus Cassia in the pulse family, Leguminosae, order Rosales; the name is also applied to any of several cathartic drugs derived especially from the leaves.
The dried leaves of Cassia acutifolia (Alexandria senna) and C. angustifolia (Indian senna) are utilized for purgatives.
Wild senna, C. marilandica, a native of the eastern United States, has also been used for its purgative properties.
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 Herbals: Therapeutic And Adverse Effects: A Bibliography With Abstracts
Plants of the genus Senna (formerly Cassia) are poisonous to livestock and other laboratory animals, leading to a syndrome of a widespread muscle degeneration, incoordination, recumbence, and death.
Plants of the genus Senna (formerly Cassia) have been recognized as the cause of a natural and experimental syndrome of muscle degeneration frequently leading to death in animals.
The woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, belongs to the genus Solanum and its primary toxin is solanine.
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 Database entry Fedegoso - Cassia occidentalis Fedegoso - Cassia occidentalis Fedegoso - Cassia occidentalis Fedegoso - Cassia occidentalis
The actions of the anthraquinones chemicals are the basis of senna’s widespread use as a purgative and strong laxative.
The Cassia genus comprises some 600 species of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs, with numerous species growing in the South American rainforests and tropics.
The most widely used species of Cassia in herbal medicine is known as senna ( Cassia senna or C.
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 Cassia occidentalis - Definition of Cassia occidentalis - Cassia occidentalis in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net
Cassia occidentalis n : very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia [syn: coffee senna, mogdad coffee}, styptic weed, stinking weed, Senna occidentalis}]
[Written also stiptic.] [1913 Webster] Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb ( Cassia occidentalis}) closely related to the wild senna.
Cassia occidentalis - Definition of Cassia occidentalis - Cassia occidentalis in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net
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 Plants Belonging to the Genus 'Senna'
Senna nemophila synonym of Cassia nemophila (Desert Cassia)
Senna phyllodinea synonym of Cassia phyllodinea (Silvery Cassia, Silver Leaf Cassia)
Senna pallida synonym of Cassia biflora (Twin Flowered Cassia)
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 Cassia --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
genus of pea, or pulse, family; many species, most of them native to warm regions, include trees, shrubs, and wildflowers such as senna; most of them with showy clusters of golden or orange-yellow blossoms resembling the sweet pea in form, and with long beanlike seedpods and compound leaves of 6 to 20 leaflets.
plants of the genus Cassia, in the pea, or pulse, family; many species in U.S. and tropical America; common wild senna (C. marilandica), 3 to 8 ft (1 to 2.5 m) tall, leaves divided into 10 to 20 leaflets in pairs; showy yellow pealike flowers in axils of upper leaves.
Cassia bark is used as a flavouring in cooking...
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 Picture Senna,Plants,Senna Tree Pictures,Catalog,Trees Encyclopedia
The dried leaves of Cassia acutifolia (Alexandria senna) and C. angustifolia (Indian senna) are utilized for purgatives.
Date : 2/7/2006 Time : 7:33:58 AM Senna is any herb, shrub, or tree of the genus Cassia in the pulse family, Leguminosae, order Rosales; the name is also applied to any of several cathartic drugs derived especially from the leaves.
Wild senna, C. marilandica, a native of the eastern United States, has also been used for its purgative properties.
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 cassia information.
1 any tree of the genus Cassia, bearing leaves from which senna is extracted.
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 SENNA - Definition
Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, avaram, bush, Cassia acutifolia, Cassia alata, Cassia augustifolia, Cassia auriculata, Cassia occidentalis, coffee senna, genus Senna, Indian senna, mogdad coffee, ringworm bush, ringworm cassia, ringworm shrub, Senna alata, Senna alexandrina, Senna auriculata, Senna occidentalis, shrub, stinking weed, styptic weed, tanner's cassia, tinnevelly senna, true senna
[n] any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers ; many are used medicinally
{ Wild senna } ( Bot.), the { Cassia Marilandica }, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.
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 Canafistula - Cassia fistula Canafistula - Cassia fistula,Canafistula - Cassia fistula,Canafistula - Cassia fistula
Canafistula's laxative actions come from a group of well documented compounds called anthraquinones that are found in all Cassia and Senna plants in varying degrees.
There are many Cassia species worldwide which are used in herbal medicine systems.
Canafistula is native to India, the Amazon and Sri Lanka, and is now widely cultivated worldwide as an ornamental tree for its beautiful showy yellow flowers.
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 Senna Leaf
Cassia senna native in northern and north-eastern Africa, cultivated in The Valley of the Nile, India, Sudan, Cassia angustifolia is native in Arabia, cultivated in southern India, Somalia, Arabia, south India (Tinnevelly), northwest Pakistan
Senna alexandrina Miller, Senna obtusifolia, Cassia obtusifolia, Senna tora, Cassia tora, Alexandria Senna or Khartoum Senna: Cassia senna, Cassia acutifolia Del., Tinnevelly Senna: Cassia angustifolia Vahl
Alexandrian Senna, Cassia Leaf, Khartoum senna, Sennae Folium, Tinnevelly Senna
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 cassia alata : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com
1 definition found cassia alata - WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) : Cassia alata n : tropical shrub (especially of Americas) having yellow flowers and large leaves whose juice is used as a cure for ringworm and poisonous bites; sometimes placed in genus Cassia [syn: ringworm bush, ringworm shrub, ringworm cassia, Senna alata, Cassia alata]
cassia alata : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com
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 Definition of genus Senna
-- genus of shrubs and trees and herbs many of which are often classified as members of the genus Cassia
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 GENUS CASSIA Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org
[noun] some Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista
GENUS CASSIA Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org
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 Senna : on Medical Dictionary Online
Many species of the CASSIA genus have been reclassified into this genus.
This bush should not be confused with the Cassia tree (CINNAMOMUM).
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 Definition of genus Cassia
-- some Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista
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 Plants Belonging to the Genus 'Cassia'
Cassia wislizeni synonym of Senna wislizeni (Shrubby Senna)
Cassia ampliflora synonym of Senna multijuga (False Sicklepod)
Cassia calliantha synonym of Senna multijuga (False Sicklepod)
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Esveld List of available slides of plants of the genus Colutea, GardenBed.com: Colutea arborescens - Bladder senna, genus Colutea- -, Ornamentalworld: Guide to landscape plans by Betrock Information Systems, Plant Profile for Colutea arborescens
Senna, Bladder - Herb Profile and Information, Colutea arborescens, Colutea arborescens L.: Bladder-Senna (non-technical), Colutea L. Fa.
Websites: Bladder senna Colutea arborescens Plants At GardenBed.com, botanical.com - A Modern Herbal
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 FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus
Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods.
[1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) : Colutea n : small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods [syn: Colutea, genus Colutea]
Bladder worm (Zool.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (T[ae]nia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals.
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 Colutea - Definition of Colutea by Webster Dictionary
bladder senna, Colutea arborescens, genus Colutea, Papilionoideae, rosid dicot genus, subfamily Papilionoideae
Colutea - Definition of Colutea by Webster Dictionary
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 Golden Shower Tree, Cassia Fistula, Senna Fistula
Cassia is a huge genus that includes many of the most colorful trees and shrubs in the tropics.
Cassia is a very large genus with about 500 species, the better known members of which are fine flowering trees.
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 Livid's Lividict - book scorpion
{Scorpion fly} (Zool.), a neuropterous insect of the genus {Panorpa}.
{Scorpion senna} (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous shrub ({Coronilla Emerus}) having a slender joined pod, like a scorpion's tail.
{Scorpion's tail} (Bot.), any plant of the leguminous genus {Scorpiurus}, herbs with a circinately coiled pod; -- also called {caterpillar}.
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 definition of cassia
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It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.
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 sweet shrub --  Encyclopædia Britannica
genus of pea, or pulse, family; many species, most of them native to warm regions, include trees, shrubs, and wildflowers such as senna; most of them with showy clusters of golden or orange-yellow blossoms resembling the sweet pea in form, and with long beanlike seedpods and compound leaves of 6 to 20 leaflets.
Shrubs of the genera Deutzia, Hydrangea (hydrangea), and Philadelphus (mock orange or sweet syringa) are well-known garden ornamentals.
The sweet-scented, fine-grained sandalwood is an evergreen tree or shrub.
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Click thumbnail for larger image -COMMON_NAMES- Tree Colutea, Bladder Senna -GENUS- Colutea -SPECIES- Colutea arborescens -CLASS- Diadelphia -ORDER- Decandria -AUTHORITY- Linnaeus
-MODERN_GENUS- Colutea -MODERN_SPECIES- Colutea arborescens -MODERN_FAMILY- Fabaceae alt.
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 Colutea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colutea is a genus of about 25 species of deciduous flowering shrubs from 2-5 m tall, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia.
Colutea arborescens, known as Bladder Senna, is indiginous to the Mediterranean; it has yellow flowers.
Colutea arborescens will grow in poor sandy soils as well as heavy or loamy soils and is easy to propagate from seed.
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