Anamirta cocculus Flower (Male)
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An illustration of an anamirta cocculus male flower. 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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Flowers and Shrubs: ASource
L. Brent Vaughan Hill's Practical Reference Library Volume II (NewYork, NY: Dixon, Hanson and Company, 1906)
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