RE: Unusual Plants

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• To: "'Kay Lancaster'" <k*@fern.com>
• Subject: RE: Unusual Plants
• From: "* R* <R*@sp.agric.wa.gov.au>
• Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:19:53 +0800

> Abrus precatorius??,    Most likely Kay,  certainly an Abrus spp.
> 
crabseye is the common name I couldn't think of before

Rod

Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
Home Page  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/Weedsci.htm

             "I weed..."

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> From: 	Kay Lancaster
> Sent: 	Thursday, 16 April 1998 9:25 AM
> To: 	Randall, Rod
> Cc: 	'Medit Plants'
> Subject: 	Re: Unusual Plants
> 
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Randall, Rod wrote:
> 
> > Oh and the use of ground up buckeye seed for fish poison reminded me
> of
> > a native plant used in the Kimberley region of Australia. The seed
> are
> > little black and red beads commonly made into necklaces but are also
> > ground up and used as a fish poison.  Can't for the life of me think
> of
> > a name though.  I am hopeless at remembering names.
> 
> Abrus precatorius, precatory bean, perhaps?  
> 
> Wolffia is moderatly closely related to philodendrons, BTW.
> 
> Kay Lancaster    kay@fern.com
> 
> 
> 

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