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July 2008 at Okinawa |
July 2008 at Okinawa |
| Family | Polygalaceae |
| Scientific name | Polygala paniculata L. |
| Synonyms | none |
| Common name | (Japanese common name) kasumi hime-hagi (カスミヒメハギ, 霞姫萩 [meaning: misty hime hagi (hime hagi = Polygala japonica)]), kobana-hime-hagi (コバナヒメハギ, 小花姫萩 [meaning: small flowers hime-hagi]) |
| (English common name) orosne | |
| Distribution | (Japan) Okinawa |
| (Other nations) [native] Mexico, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua; Panama, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | |
| Habitat | Roadside, forest edge |
| Chromosomal number | unknown |
| Description | Plants 20-30cm tall. Leaves 2-4cm long. Flowers white 1-1.5mm, flowering in all seasons. Annual plantsplants. |
| Reference | Polygala paniculata L. |
| Polygala paniculata Linnaeus | |
| Agent for inhibiting binding of 5-dihydro-testosterone with androgen receptor as well as process for obtaining same (US Patent 4987150/1991) | |
| Pharmaceutical preparations of bioactive substances extracted from natural sources (US Patent 6746695/2004) | |
| Note | Naturalized plants. |
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July 2008 at Okinawa |
