moonseed
menispermum latin

The fruit of Canada Moonseed are poisonous and can be fatal.

Asian Moonseed has been used to treat skin disorders, rheumatism, and cervical cancer.

The common name Moonseed is also used for the closely related genus Menispermum.

Robinson exhorted his readers not to clip their yews but to let them commingle with moonseed and honeysuckle.

When moon-dust containing the moonseed accidentally falls onto the streets of Edinburgh, Earth's fate is sealed.

The Cherokee used Moonseed as a laxative, and as a gynecological and venereal aid.

Menispermum canadense - Canadian moonseed (northeastern North America)

Menispermum dauricum - Asian moonseed (northeastern Asia)

Menispermum mexicanum - Mexican moonseed (Mexico)

The Moonseed Fruitpiecer (Gonodonta sinaldus) is a moth of the Noctuidae family.

Canadian Moonseed has been used in herbal medicine as a tonic, laxative, dermatological aid, venereal aid, and diuretic.

It is the main toxin that makes the North American vine Menispermum canadense (moonseed) poisonous (often fatally so).

Also, the moonseed vine lacks tendrils, whilst the vine of the wild grape has forked tendrils.

Cocculus carolinus otherwise known as Carolina Coralbead, Redberry Moonseed or the Carolina snailseed.

Menispermum (moonseed) is a small genus of deciduous climbing woody vines in the moonseed family (Menispermaceae).

In Stephen Baxter's "disaster novel" Moonseed, the volcano reactivates and obliterates most of Edinburgh, during the first act of Earth's eventual destruction.

He had assisted the shaman in preparing this batch of woorari, in English curare, a deadly paralyzing nerve poison prepared from a liana vine of the moonseed family.

Cocculus carolinus, (also Carolina Coralbead, Redberry Moonseed, Carolina snailseed) is a perennial vine of the genus Cocculus.

Cocculus carolinus - Red-berried Moonseed or Carolina Moonseed (southeastern United States)

In the book, the rock contain a mysterious substance called "moonseed" (a form of grey goo, whether nanobots, an alien virus or something else) that starts to change all inorganic matter on Earth into more moonseed.

During the course of the novel, in which Edinburgh is the focus for much of the action, Venus is destroyed by an unknown cosmic event that showers the Earth with radiation that somehow stirs the moonseed on Earth.

The moonseed begins to disintegrate the planet from the inside-out as the core heats up exponentially, while on the surface, nuclear power stations catastrophically fail, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are abundant, and billions of people die as cities and continents vanish.

Menispermum canadense (Canadian Moonseed, Common Moonseed, or Yellow Parilla) is a flowering plant in the family Menispermaceae, native to eastern North America, from southern Canada south to northern Florida, and from the Atlantic coast west to Manitoba and Texas.

There are only three species in the genus Menispermum.

The common name Moonseed is also used for the closely related genus Menispermum.

The larvae feed on Menispermum species and snailseed vines.

The word Menispermum is derived from the Greek words mene, meaning moon, and sperma meaning seed.

Menispermum canadense (N)

Menispermum canadense - Canadian moonseed (northeastern North America)

Menispermum dauricum - Asian moonseed (northeastern Asia)

Menispermum mexicanum - Mexican moonseed (Mexico)

It is the main toxin that makes the North American vine Menispermum canadense (moonseed) poisonous (often fatally so).

The great majority of the genera are tropical, but with a few (notably Menispermum and Cocculus) reaching temperate climates in eastern North America and eastern Asia.

Calomba Root, Calumba, Calumbo Root, Cocculus palmatus, Jateorhiza columba, Jateorhiza miersii, Jateorhiza palmate, Menispermum columba, Menispermum palmatum, Wateorhiza palmate.