Comment on Can someone please identify this plant ??

Justas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have tried out the smell. Every leaf has a smell when crushed. This smell l would call anything but pleasant.

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  • Justas@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In that case it might be something like Achyrates Bidentata or one of its relatives. A lot of those are used in traditional medicine.

    During the Chinese Liang Dynasty, Achyranthes bidentata was used for its abortion effectiveness. Chinese folk doctors would take the juices of crushed up Achyranthes bidentata and insert them into the vagina to induce abortion.[4] This abortive technique was common among folk medicine practitioners in southern China during the Republican period.[5]

    Yikes.

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    • TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for the link. It does look pretty similar. Or maybe, it's the same after all. I don't about the climatic conditions in China - it's vast and expansive. The climatic belt that I live in could well be called tropical, beneath the tropic of Cancer.

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      • Justas@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you found it in China, then its native there. I read about some plants of this family being invasive across some Pacific islands.

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• TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I shall try out tomorrow.

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