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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Adenium obesum

Common Name
Desert Rose

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Piscicide Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Piscicide Africa Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Piscicide Africa(Swahili) *
Piscicide Tanzania *
Poison Africa Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Poison Africa(Swahili) *
Poison Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Poison(Arrow) Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Poison(Arrow) Africa Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Poison(Arrow) Africa(Swahili) *