A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers.
B) Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) is a much more attractive species than its relative just mentioned.
Instead of setting a trap to catch flies and hold them by the tongue in a vise-like grip until death alone releases them, as its heartless sister the spreading dogbane does (q.
Indian tree of the dogbane family, with hard white wood.
Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used by the Indians.
Defn: A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers.
Allied to the milkweed is another plant, the dogbane (Apocynum), which has a similar trick of entrapping its insect friends.
As I hurried across I noted with great satisfaction that the pink-white blossoms of the spreading dogbane were covered with mosquito carcasses.
If we could bring the dogbane to brew a cup which would be fatal to the females, it might be a good plant to raise in our gardens along with the eucalyptus and the castor-oil plants.
The Flambeau Ojibwe use this root in combination with Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) to keep the kidneys open during pregnancy, to cure sore throat and headache.
Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.
A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum).
Among the plants that were formerly collected as Apocynum or varietal forms of it, and which are now considered as distinct species, may be mentioned in the following: Riverbank-dogbane (A.
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