Christmas bells: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Christmas bells in English is the name of a plant defined with Sesbania grandiflora in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Emerus grandiflorus (L.) Kuntze (among others).
2) Christmas bells is also identified with Trichilia dregeana It has the synonym Trichilia dregei var. oblonga C. DC. (etc.).
3) Christmas bells is also identified with Trichilia emetica It has the synonym Elcaja roka Forssk. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)
· Flora Capensis (Harvey) (1860)
· Phytomorphology (1993)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1806)
· Cell Chromosome Res. (1992)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1912)
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