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Strychnos nux-blanda is a shrub or small tree of Southeast Asia and Assam, growing 4 to 15 m tall, with a deciduous habit. Its seeds and fruit are highly toxic and it is grown mainly for its wood and folk-medicine use rather than as an ornamental.
Strychnos nux-blanda is a shrub or small tree in the Loganiaceae family. It is native to Southeast Asia and Assam. The wood is used as fuel; seeds are toxic, but used in folk-medicine. It is one of the plants featured in the garden of King Narai (1633–1688) at Lopburi, Thailand.
The species is native to Southeast Asia and Assam. Countries and regions where it grows include: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and India (Assam).
The wood furnishes firewood. The fruit is toxic, in the indigenous medicine of Cambodia the seeds are often sold in a mixture with the seeds of Strychnos nux-vomica to be used as an emetic. Warning: taking these seeds is often fatal, and their effective use as an emetic is not verified by science. The plant is also used for folk medicine in Thailand.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Strychnos nux-blanda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
