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30 Cards in this Set
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century plant
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agave, tequila
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baobab tree
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hollow trunk, africa
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mulberry
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source of original paper, china
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oldess domestic plant on planet
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cannabis genus
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breadfruit
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buried to eat later, polynesia to west indies
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willow back used for...
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aspirin, used in egypt & north americas
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sweet potato...
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orig. in new world and moved to new zealand
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rice
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SE Asia
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corn varieties
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flint, dent, flour, sweet
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hybrid vigor
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heterosis, better than parent, 2 parents are the same
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potatos
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leaves are toxic, S. America, 1845
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tomato
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new world, eggplants & red pepper, belladonna (deadly night shade) ad tobacco are poisonous varieties
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manihot
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very posinous, large chinese finger traps
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taro
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used to make hawaiian dish called Poi
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yams
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SE Asia, contains cortisone (oral contraception)
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carrot family
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edible, angelica, hemlock
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pea family
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new world, english pea (europe), beans (castor bean not a member), peanut (S. America)
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posinous peas
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wisteria (china) precatory bean (rosary)
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weeds
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austrailian, dryed up the everglades
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prickly pear cactus
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new world taken to austrailian where it became a weeds and was not eaten
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poisonous plats
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alkaloids (carolina jasmine, belladonna, poison hemlock)
glycosides (wild cherry, coumarin, oleander, foxglove) |
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spurge family
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faux leprosy, manihot (American tropics) castor beans
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tomato family
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mandrake, henbane, jimson weed
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fox glove
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cardiac glycosides, antidote for monkshood poison
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malaria
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treated by cinchona (quinine chemical) bark, Peru
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leprosy
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treated by chalmoogra tree, SE Asia
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heart disease
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edema, fox glove treats it
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leukemia/cancer
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periwinkle
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pain
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poppy (opium)
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wood cell types
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tracheid, vessel, fiber (no vesel in conifer woods)
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