"Zamioculcas" Also Known As Welcome Plant Poisonous If Ingested

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General info

Zamioculcas is a genus of flowering plant in the Araceae family, with the single species Zamioculcas .

Botany

Zu zu plant is an evergreen plant that grows from a stout underground, succulent water-storing rhizome, attaining a height of 45 to 60 centimeters. Leaves are pinnate, 40 to 60 centimeters long, with 6-8 pairs of leaflets 7 to 15 centimeters long, smooth, shiny and dark green. Flowers are small bright yellow to brown on bronze spadix 5 centimeters long, partly hidden among the leaf bases.

Distribution 

- Common pot cultivation in the Philippines.

- Introduced.

- Native to eastern Africa, from Kenya to northeastern South Africa.

- Wide scale commercial propagation by Dutch nurseries around 1996. 

Uses

Folkloric 

• No reported folkloric medicinal use in the Philippines.

• In the jungles of Ghana, leaves used by shamans to relieve stomach ache. 

Others 

• Considered to have air-purifying property; included in the list of "Plants that Detoxify the Air."

Caution !

All parts of the plant are reported poisonous if ingested.

See this facebook post a story of a young boy how eat the leaf of this plant and started to cry.

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