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Common Devil Pepper
Rauvolfia verticillata
Rauvolfia verticillata, the common devil pepper, grows as a shrub up to 5 metres (20 ft) tall. The bark is yellowish black or brown. Inflorescences bear up to 35 or more flowers. The flowers feature a white or pinkish corolla. Fruits are whitish purple when ripe, ovoid, up to 1.4 cm (1 in) long. The plant is found in a variety of habitats, from sea-level to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) altitude. The specific epithet verticillata means "whorled" in Latin and...
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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 852681.