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Psorospermum febrifugum
Psorospermum febrifugum is a tropical African shrub or small tree in the St John's wort family, grown mainly for traditional medicine rather than as an ornamental. It bears clusters of dark red berries on opposite-leaved stems.
Psorospermum febrifugum is a species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. It is found across tropical Africa in seasonally dry tropical biomes. French botanist Édouard Spach described Psorospermum febrifugum in 1836.
Psorospermum febrifugum has been used as a febrifuge, leprosy treatment, antidote, and purgative. As an ethnomedicine in Tanzania and among the Baganda people of Uganda, it has also been used to treat epilepsy, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. A 1972 study demonstrated that ethanol extracts of the plant exhibited activity in a laboratory setting against leukemia in mice and a human cell line.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
