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Zamioculcas is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, containing the single species Zamioculcas zamiifolia. [2] It is a tropical herbaceous perennial plant, and is native to eastern Africa, including Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. [2]
Oplismenus is a small genus of annual or perennial grasses, commonly known as basketgrass, [3] found throughout the tropics, subtropics, and in some cases, temperate regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. [4]
Couroupita guianensis, known by a variety of common names including cannonball tree, [3] is a deciduous tree in the flowering plant family Lecythidaceae.It is native to lowland tropical rainforests of Central and South America, from Costa Rica, south to Brazil and northern Bolivia [1] and it is cultivated in many other tropical areas throughout the world because of its fragrant flowers and ...
The fruits of G. procumbens, considered its actual "teaberries", are edible, with a taste of mildly sweet wintergreen similar to the flavors of the Mentha varieties M. piperita (peppermint) and M. spicata (spearmint) even though G. procumbens is not a true mint.
Senna, the sennas, is a large genus of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, [2] tribe Cassieae ser. Aphyllae [3]).This diverse genus is native throughout the tropics, with a small number of species in temperate regions.
Cattleya trianae (Lind. & Rchb. fil), also known as Flor de Mayo ("May flower") or "Christmas orchid", [1] is a plant of the family Orchidaceae.It grows as an epiphytic orchid, with succulent leaves, endemic to Colombia where it was nominated as the national flower in November 1936.
Irwin Fridovich and Joe McCord at Duke University discovered the enzymatic activity of superoxide dismutase in 1968. [5] SODs were previously known as a group of metalloproteins with unknown function; for example, CuZnSOD was known as erythrocuprein (or hemocuprein, or cytocuprein) or as the veterinary anti-inflammatory drug "Orgotein". [6]
Management of tuberculosis refers to techniques and procedures utilized for treating tuberculosis (TB), or simply a treatment plan for TB.. The medical standard for active TB is a short course treatment involving a combination of isoniazid, rifampicin (also known as Rifampin), pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for the first two months.