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Drimia maritima (red squill)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae). This species is known by several common names, including squill, sea squill, sea onion, and maritime squill. It may also be called red squill, particularly a form which produces red-tinged flowers instead of white. It is native to southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.
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Attributes

Dispersal Mode [3]  Anemochory
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The bulb is poisonous in large doses; The red form especially has a fairly specific action on rats; The fresh bulb contains an acrid juice that can cause skin blisters;
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Structure [2]  Bulb
Usage [2]  The red bulb form of this species contains the poisonous substance 'scilliroside'; This substance is poisonous to rodents but does not kill other species (which vomit instead);
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Isole di Ponza, Palmarola, Zannone, Ventotene e S. Stefano 42423 Italy  
PUNTA ENTINAS-SABINAR 4806 Spain  

Predators

Phenacoccus avenae (oat mealybug)[4]

Providers

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0