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Catharanthus roseus, commonly known as bright eyes, Cape periwinkle, graveyard plant, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, pink periwinkle, rose periwinkle, [2] is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.
Catharanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.Like the genus Vinca, they are known commonly as periwinkles. [3] There are eight known species. Seven are endemic to Madagascar, [4] though one, C. roseus, is widely naturalized around the world.
The diverse flora of Madagascar holds potential for natural product research and drug production on an industrial scale; the Madagascar periwinkle (Cataranthus roseus), a source of alkaloids used in the treatment of different cancers, is a famous example. [62]
Periwinkle, a character in Blue's Clues; Periwinkle, a character in The Bellflower Bunnies; Periwinkle, a character in the 2012 animated film Secret of the Wings from Disney, Tinker Bell's twin sister; Periwinkle, the main character in Patricia A. McKillip's book The Changeling Sea
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They include most of the languages of Sulawesi and the Greater Sunda Islands, as well as a few outliers such as Chamorro and Palauan. In this proposal the previously posited clade of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages (WMP), aka Hesperonesian , has been broken up into "inner" (Sunda–Sulawesi) and "outer" ( Borneo–Philippines ) clades, and ...
Old Sundanese (Sundanese script: ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ ᮘᮥᮠᮥᮔ᮪, Old Sundanese script: , Buda script: , Roman script: Basa Sunda Buhun) is the earliest recorded stage of the Sundanese language which is spoken in the western part of Java, Indonesia.
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