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Cephalanthus tetrandra (Buttonbush)

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Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The leaves contain glucosides and can be toxic in large doses. Symptoms include vomiting, convulsions, chronic spasms and muscular paralysis;
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Scent [1]  The dried leaves have a soft sweet fragrance like newly mown hay.
Structure [1]  Shrub
Usage [1]  Wood - light, tough. Of no commercial value;
Height [1]  23 feet (7 m)
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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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