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Genus Sarcostemma   Listen
Genus Sarcostemma

noun
1.
Succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia.  Synonym: Sarcostemma.






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"Genus Sarcostemma" Quotes from Famous Books



... Brahmanas is said to grow on the mountains and to have a yellow juice of a strong smell, fiery taste and intoxicating properties. The plants used as Haom (Hum) by the modern Parsis of Yezd and Kerman are said to be members of the family Asclepiadaceae (perhaps of the genus Sarcostemma) with fleshy stalks and milky juice, and the Soma tested by Dr Haug at Poona was probably made from another species of the same or an allied genus. He found it extremely nasty, though it had some intoxicating effect. (See his Aitareya ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot



Words linked to "Genus Sarcostemma" :   Sarcostemma acidum, magnoliopsid genus, haoma, dicot genus, soma, family Asclepiadaceae, Sarcostemma, milkweed family, Asclepiadaceae



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