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Anabasis is a genus of small annual or perennial herbs and subshrubs with fleshy, jointed stems and tiny scale-like leaves, native to steppes and semideserts from southern Europe and North Africa across Central and Southwest Asia. It is rarely grown as a garden plant, and care depends on the species, which are generally drought-tolerant and need full sun and very well-drained soil.
Anabasis is a genus of plants in the subfamily Salsoloideae of the family Amaranthaceae. It is distributed in southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
The Nicotine-related alkaloid Anabasine was named for the toxic Central Asiatic species Anabasis aphylla - from which it was first isolated by Orechoff and Menschikoff in the year 1931. It was widely used as an insecticide in the former Soviet Union until 1970. Anabasine is also the active principle responsible for deaths from poisoning caused by the leaves of Nicotiana glauca, the tree tobacco.
The genus Anabasis is distributed from Southwest Europe and North Africa, the shores of the Red Sea (Ethiopia) to Southwest Asia and Central Asia. The center of diversity lies in Asia. Anabasis species grow in steppes and semideserts.
Leafless Anabasis · Anabasis articulata · Eugenia's Anabasis
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