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Star of Bethlehem
Hippobroma longiflora
Hippobroma longiflora (also called Star of Bethlehem, madamfate) is a flowering plant in the Campanulaceae family. It is endemic to the West Indies, but has become naturalized across the American tropics and Oceania.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.101
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.203
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.421
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.711
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.196
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.230
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.242
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.55
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.75
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 154827.