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Jessica Frigerio

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The problem of misidentification between edible and poisonous wild plants: Reports from the Mediterranean area

2018

Abstract Today, in many European countries, people are looking for wild edible plants to experience new tastes and flavors, by following the new trend of being green and environmentally friendly. Young borage and spinach leaves can be easily confused by inexpert pickers with those of other plants, including poisonous ones, such as Mandragora autumnalis Bertol. (mandrake) or Digitalis purpurea L. (foxglove), common in southern and northern Italy respectively. In the last twenty years, several cases of intoxication by accidental ingestion of mandrake and foxglove have been reported. The purpose of this work was to perform a pharmacognostic characterization of young leaves from borage, mandrak…

0106 biological sciences0301 basic medicineChromatography GasDigitalis GlycosidePhytochemicalsIntoxicationBiologyPhytochemicalToxicology010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesEdible plantGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryAccidental ingestion03 medical and health sciencesPlant leaveAlkaloidsAlkaloidHumansDiscriminant analysePoisonous plants Edible plants Plant leaves Accidental ingestion Intoxication Discriminant analysesBorageTraditional medicineMediterranean RegionSettore BIO/02 - Botanica SistematicaDigitalis purpureafood and beveragesMandragora autumnalisDigitalis GlycosidesDiscriminant analysesGeneral MedicineMandrakebiology.organism_classificationPoisonous plantPlant LeavesPlants Toxic030104 developmental biologyPhytochemicalItalyChromatography GaPoisonous plantsSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataAccidental ingestionEdible plantsEdible plantsMediterranean areaPlants EdibleFood ScienceHuman
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Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 8

2019

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions of taxa in the genera Bunias, Calocedrus, Calycanthus, Celosia, Clerodendrum, Convolvulus, Crassula, Cyclamen, Datura, Dicliptera, Eragrostis, Erigeron, Gamochaeta, Gazania, Impatiens, Kolkwitzia, Leucaena, Ludwigia, Medicago, Muscari, Nigella, Oenothera, Opuntia, Paulownia, Petroselinum, Phyllostachys, Physalis, Pseudosasa, Quercus, Reynoutria, Roldana, Saccharum, Sedum, Semiarundinaria, Senecio, Sisyrinchium, Solanum, Sporobolus, Tulipa, Vachellia, Verbena, and Young…

0106 biological sciencesFloraEcologyAlien speciesFloristic dataPlant ScienceAlienBiology010603 evolutionary biology01 natural scienceslcsh:QK1-989ItalyAlien species Floristic data Italylcsh:BotanySettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataAlien speciesAlien species; Floristic data; ItalyEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsAlien specie010606 plant biology & botany
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Supplementary material 1 from: Galasso G, Domina G, Andreatta S, Angiolini C, Ardenghi NMG, Aristarchi C, Arnoul M, Azzella MM, Bacchetta G, Bartoluc…

2019

: Data type: species data

floristic dataItalyAlien species
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