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Rauvolfia serpentina
Spotted on Dec 28, 2013
Submitted on Jan 30, 2014
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Alexander the Great administered this plant to cure his general Ptolemy I Soter of a poisoned arrow. It was reported that Mahatma Gandhi took it as a tranquilizer during his lifetime
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