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Macleaya cordata (plume poppy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Macleaya cordata, the five-seeded plume-poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae, which is used ornamentally. It is native to China and Japan. It is a large herbaceous perennial growing to 2.5 m (8 ft) tall by 1 m (3 ft) or more wide, with olive green leaves and airy panicles of buff-white flowers in summer.
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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The sap is very poisonous;
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  The dried hollow stems can be used as whistles; Kills insects and mosquito larvae; The flowers are used to kill maggots whilst the whole plant is used to kill larvae and insects;
Height [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
Width [1]  39 inches (1 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Valley Forge National Historical Park VI 3509 Pennsylvania, United States

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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.
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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