baby's breath , auch: babies'-breath
Gypsophila paniculata latin

Gypsophila paniculata is a species of perennial plant, a plant that lives for more than two years.

Gypsophila paniculata is now widely distributed in North America.

Gypsophila paniculata (I)

Gypsophila paniculata (Baby's breath)

Gypsophila paniculata (baby's breath) is a species of flowering plant in the Caryophyllaceae family, native to central and eastern Europe.

Gypsophila paniculata has become an invasive species in parts of North America and is classified as a noxious weed in California and Washington.

The garden plant "baby's-breath" (Gypsophila paniculata), which is in the pink family Caryophyllaceae, has a dry inflorescence that forms tumbleweeds.

Saponins from the Gypsophila paniculata (baby's breath) plant have been shown to very significantly augment the cytotoxicity of immunotoxins and other targeted toxins directed against human cancer cells.

Most recently saponins (not to be confused with saporin) from Gypsophila paniculata have been show to significantly augment saporin-based immunotoxins directed against human cancer cells by several orders of magnitude.

Amman went on to St Petersburg at the invitation of Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755) and became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, regularly sending interesting plants, such as Gypsophila paniculata, back to Sloane.