Gomphocarpus fruticosus

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Gomphocarpus fruticosus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Asclepiadoideae
Genus:	Gomphocarpus
Species:	G. fruticosus
Binomial name
Gomphocarpus fruticosus (L.) W.T.Aiton
Synonyms

 

Gomphocarpus fruticosus (syn. Asclepias fruticosa) is a species of milkweed native to South Africa. It is also common in New Zealand where it is the main host of the Monarch butterfly.^] The plant's tissues contain sufficient cardenolides that consumption of significant quantities of the plant's leaves, stems, or fruit may lead to death in livestock and humans