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Karwinskia humboldtiana (coyotillo)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Karwinskia humboldtiana, commonly known as coyotillo or Humboldt coyotillo, is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. It is native to southern and western Texas in the United States as well as much of Mexico. The seeds and leaves of this plant contain the quinones eleutherin and 7-methoxyeleutherin and chrysophanol and β-amyrin in the fruits that are toxic to humans and livestock.
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Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Shrub

Predators

Astraptes fulgerator (Skipper)[3]
Hemiberlesia lataniae (latania scale)[4]
Magusa orbifera[3]
Pulvinaria grabhami (cottony camellia scale)[4]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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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