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Flowers of foxglove, Digitalis purpurea
Flowers of foxglove, Digitalis purpurea The biennial garden plant called foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, has beautiful flowers, here in a shade of rose-pink but also in white to lavendar. There are bee guides in the throat of these flowers, which are pollinated by all sizes of bees, including bumblebees and carpenter bees. [Return to Text]
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Inflorescence of foxglove, Digitalis purpurea
Inflorescence of foxglove, Digitalis purpurea The tall inflorescence of foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, with its beautiful flowers, are produced in the second year, i.e., this plant is a biennial. [Return to Text]
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THE LIVESAVING FOXGLOVE
... FOXGLOVE THE LIFESAVING FOXGLOVE Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) SCROPHULARIACEAE, Figwort Family Unlike many medicinal plants, which have a long history of uses, foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) was not an important medicine ... print, so he never got to see how foxglove, or digitalis, became a lifesaver for heart disease patients. Digitalis is very toxic and fatal with an overdose, so its potency ...
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Curare
... grams of ouabain is a lethal dose for an adult human. Cardiac glycosides, e.g., digitalis, slow the heart rate, increase cardiac output, decrease cardiac enlargement, and reduce venous pressure by ...
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