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Crotalaria a plant genus of the legume family Fabaceae. There are many species and most of them are poisonous. They all contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids which cause damage in liver, lungs and in pigs in the kidney. Called also rattlepods. The diseases caused have many names including walkabout, Kimberley horse disease, stywesiekte and jaagsiekte. Includes as causes of liver damage, lung damage and dummy syndrome in horses and cattle: C. anagyroides, C. barkae (C. geminiflora), C. burkeana, C. crispata, C. dissitiflora (gray rattlepod), C. dura (wild lucerne), C. globifera (wild lucerne), C. goreensis (Gambia pea), C. juncea (sunn hemp), C. lachnocarpoides, C. mauensis, C. mesopontica, C. mitchelli, C. mucronata, C. novae-hollandiae, C. pallida, C. polysperma (C. saltiana, C. striata), C. retusa (wedge-leafed rattlepod), C. rhodesiae, C. rotundifolia, C. sagittalis, C. spectabilis (C. retzii, C. sericea), C. steudneri (C. hispida), C. zimmermannii. Includes as causes of esophageal ulceration in horses: C. aridicola (Chillagoe horse poison), C. medicaginea (C. trifoliastrum). Includes as a cause of pulmonary edema: C. eremaea, C. spartioides, C. pallida. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Warm-season crops, such as corn or crotalaria, a legume that fixes large quantities of atmospheric nitrogen, are then planted. The moths pick up alkaloids from several wild legumes in the Crotalaria genus. MCT is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in leaves and seeds of the plant Crotalaria spectabilis. |
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