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Sophora flavescens (Ku Shen)

Synonyms: Radiusia flavescens (homotypic); Sophora flavescens var. favescens
Language: Mongolian; Russian; Tibetan

Wikipedia Abstract

Sophora flavescens, the shrubby sophora, is a species of plant in the genus Sophora a genus of the Fabaceae family, that contains about 52 species, nineteen varieties, and seven forms that are widely distributed in Asia, Oceanica, and the Pacific islands.About fifteen species in this genus have a long history of use in traditional Chinese medicines. The root is known as Ku shen. is a typical traditional Chinese medicine.
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Infraspecies

Sophora flavescens var. flavescens
Sophora flavescens var. galegoides
Sophora flavescens var. kronei

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The plant contains cytosine, which resembles nicotine and is similarly toxic; The plant is poisonous when used in quantity;
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  The plant is a source of an insecticide and parasiticide; No further details.
Height [2]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bolshekhekhtsirsky Zapovednik Ia 112282 Khabarovsk, Russia
Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve V 619089 Jilin, China  
Daurskiy Biosphere Reserve 562659 Russia  
Kedrovaya Pad Zapovednik Ia 44224 Primorsky Krai , Russia

Predators

Celastrina argiolus (Holly Blue Butterfly)[3]
Porphyrophora sophorae[4]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Bombus ignitus[3]
Neptis sappho (Pallas' Sailer)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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