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Bugbane or baneberry is a genus of flowering plant native to temperate regions of Northern Hemisphere. It is a tall, perennial plant with large broad leaves divided into many leaflets. The plant has clusters of small white flowers. The name bugbane originally referred to a flowering plant that grows in Asia and Eastern Europe. Due to its typical unpleasant odor, it was used to keep bed bugs away. White baneberry, red baneberry and black bugbane are few other well-known species of baneberry.

Baneberry contains cardiogenic toxins that can have immediate sedative effects on human cardiac muscle tissue. Berries are the most poisonous parts of the entire plant. Ingestion of bugbane berries can often lead to immediate cardiac arrest and death. Berries are harmless to birds. Birds are the primary seed dispersers for bugbanes. Bugbane is the only species of its family that have fleshy fruits while others have dry fruits. Baneberry is recorded as the food plant for the larvae of Dot Moth. Roots of some of the species of baneberry were used by Native Americans for menstrual cramping and for the relief from menopausal discomforts.

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind

Pictures of Flowers Bugbane Pictures and Bugbane Kind