Dogbane
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A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonousmilky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
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any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
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Any species of genus Apocynum, eponymous of the dogbane family Apocynaceae
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The leaves are produced opposite by pairs upon the branches: the flower consists of one leaf, cut into several segments: from its flower-cup arises the pointal, fixed like a nail in the backpart of the flower. Philip Miller
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Dogbane, dog-bane, dogs bane, and other variations, some of them regional and some transient, are names for certain plants that are reputed to kill or repel dogs; bane originally meant slayer, and was later applied to plants to indicate that they were poisonous to particular creatures.
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