Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-666.35.__
Hippobroma longiflora
English: Star of Bethlehem.
Spanish: Lágrimas de San Diego, which means St. James' Tears.
Botany
A herb, tropical, grows wildly along the roads, 30- to 40 cm long; leaves simple, alternate, no stipules, linear to oblanceolate, acute tip, pinnate venation, doubly serrate margin; inflorescence a panicle; flower: actinomorphic to rotationally symmetric, corolla fused white corolla with five lobes; stamens: monadelphous,1.0-1.5 cm long.
Region: West Indies, American tropics, Oceania.
Contains: alkaloids, nicotine, lobeline; diphenyl obediol.
Susan Scott and Craig Thomas; Poisonous Plants of Paradise: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Injuries from Hawai'i's Plants; M.D.2000; ISBN 0-8248-2251-X.
