- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- English Names
- Brazilian Arrow root
- Manioc
- Bitter Cassava
- Natural Habitat
- Brazil
- tropical countries (including India)
- China
- Manchuria
- Korea
- Part(s) Used
- Amylum Manihot (the rootstarch = the true Tapioca)
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- Constituent(s)
- starch
- gluten
- hydrocyanic acid
- cyano-generic glucose
- Action
- demulcent
- nutritive
- P. S. This plant is the most deadly of all the Euphorbias
- which in its fresh state is known as Manioc; but
- after the acrid juice has been taken from it
- the root can be made into a nourishing bread
- and from the pulp we get Tapioca
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