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Meaning of verrucaria by Felipe Lorenzo del Río





Felipe Lorenzo del Río

verrucaria
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Plant of the boraginácea family, considered weeds by farmers and traditionally used as a poultice to remove warts and as a healing agent. Today we know that it has a toxic alkaloid, cinoglosin. People have named it in many ways as verruguera, scorpion tail, litmus, sunflower, malgirasol, heliotrope. . . Botanists identify it as heliotropium europaeum.

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