Anamirta cocculus Flowers

An illustration of an anamirta cocculus branch with flowers. Anamirta cocculus is an Southeast Asian and Indian climbing plant. Its fruit, Cocculus indicus, is the source of picrotoxin, a poisonous alkaloid with stimulant properties. The plant is large-stemmed (up to 10cm in diameter); the bark is “corky gray” with white wood. The “small, yellowish-white, sweet-scented” flowers vary between 6 to 10 centimeters across; the fruit produced is a drupe, “about 1 cm in diameter when dry".

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