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  2. Actaea racemosa - Wikipedia

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    Actaea racemosa, the black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, rattle-top, or fairy candle (syn. Cimicifuga racemosa), is a species of flowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It is native to eastern North America from the extreme south of Ontario to central Georgia, and west to Missouri and Arkansas. It grows in a variety of woodland ...

  3. Actaea rubifolia - Wikipedia

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    Actaea rubifolia, commonly known as Appalachian black cohosh or Appalachian bugbane, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family. The plant does well in alkaline soils [2] and mature forests. [1] The "bugbane" in the name refers to its flowers' unpleasant smell, which can repel insects. It is poisonous if consumed by humans. [3]

  4. Black snakeroot - Wikipedia

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    Black snakeroot may refer to: Actaea racemosa / Cimicifuga racemosa , more commonly called black cohosh, an herbaceous perennial plant species native to eastern North America, with medicinal uses Certain species in the plant genus Sanicula

  5. Actaea (plant) - Wikipedia

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    Actaea, commonly called baneberry, bugbane and cohosh, is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae, native to subtropical, temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America.

  6. Actaea podocarpa - Wikipedia

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    Actaea podocarpa, the mountain bugbane [2] or mountain black-cohosh, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family. It is native to the eastern United States, where it is found in the Appalachian Mountains, [1] with a disjunct population in Illinois. It is found in rich, mesic forests often in boulder-strewn coves. [3]

  7. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.

  8. Cohosh - Wikipedia

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    Cohosh is a common name in the English language for several loosely related woodland herbs. The name may derive from Algonquian (Eastern Abenaki / Penobscot) '*kkwὰhas', meaning 'rough', possibly describing leaves or compound flowers. It may refer to: Black cohosh, Actaea racemosa (Ranunculaceae) Blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides ...

  9. World Health Organization: child malnutrition 'particularly ...

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    GENEVA (Reuters) -United Nations organisations said on Tuesday that child malnutrition levels in northern Gaza were "particularly extreme" and about three times higher than in the south of the ...