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Podophyllum peltatum (may apple; mayapple)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Podophyllum is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Berberidaceae, described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. In the past, several species were included in the genus, but all but one have been transferred to other genera (Dysosma, Pilea, and Sinopodophyllum). The one remaining species is Podophyllum peltatum, with common names mayapple, American mandrake, wild mandrake, and ground lemon. It is widespread across most of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. They are also grown as ornamental plants for their attractive foliage and flowers.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The leaves and the roots are very poisonous;
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Scent [1]  The flowers have a foul smell.
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  An infusion of the boiled leaves has been sprayed on potato plants to protect them from insects; Other reports suggest that it is insecticidal rather than repellent; The root ooze has been used to soak corn seed prior to planting it out in order to prevent it being eaten by crows or insects;
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Euptoieta claudia (Variegated fritillary)[3]
Napaeozapus insignis (woodland jumping mouse)[4]
Papaipema cerina (Golden Borer Moth)[5]
Papaipema rutila (Mayapple borer moth)[5]

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External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 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.
♦ 4Napaeozapus insignis, John O. Whitaker, Jr., and Robert E. Wrigley, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 14, pp. 1-6 (1972)
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
♦ 7Motten, A. F. 1986. Pollination ecology of the spring wildflower community of a temperate deciduous forest. Ecological Monographs 56:21-42.
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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