Canthium coromandelicum, also known as Karai, is a bushy thorny suffruticose herb, a native of India found mainly in the Coromandel region.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Coromandel boxwood being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Canthium armatum
- Leuenbergeria guamacho
- Canthium spinosum
- Flacourtia indica
- Dovyalis afra
- Benkara malabarica
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Gentianales
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Genus
- Canthium
- Species
- Canthium coromandelicum
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