Bushman poison can refer to a number of plants or insects used as ingredients by the
San people
The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. They are thought to have diverged from other humans 100,000 to 200 ...
when preparing
arrow poison
Arrow poisons are used to poison arrow heads or darts for the purposes of hunting and warfare. They have been used by indigenous peoples worldwide and are still in use in areas of South America, Africa and Asia. Notable examples are the poisons se ...
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Toxicodendron
''Toxicodendron'' is a genus of flowering plants in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae. It contains trees, shrubs and woody vines, including poison ivy, poison oak, and the lacquer tree. All members of the genus produce the skin-irritating oil ...
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Western Cape
The Western Cape ( ; , ) is a provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the List of South African provinces by area, fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , an ...
province
* Bushman's poison, ''
Acokanthera spectabilis''
* Bushman's poison, ''
Acokanthera oblongifolia
''Acokanthera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. It comprises 5 species and is generally restricted to Africa, although ''A. schimperi'' also occurs in Yemen. Its sap contains the deadly toxin ''ouabain'', a glycosid ...
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* Bushman's poison, ''
Acokanthera oppositifolia
''Acokanthera oppositifolia'', the poison arrow tree, is a shrub used as the source of an arrow poison and to coat caltrops made from the sharp fruits of the puncture vine (''Tribulus terrestris''). All plants of the genus '' Acokanthera'' conta ...
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* Bushman's poison, ''
Acokanthera venenata
''Acokanthera oppositifolia'', the poison arrow tree, is a shrub used as the source of an arrow poison and to coat caltrops made from the sharp fruits of the puncture vine (''Tribulus terrestris''). All plants of the genus '' Acokanthera'' conta ...
'', of the south and east coasts of South Africa
:Also see genus
Acokanthera
''Acokanthera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. It comprises 5 species and is generally restricted to Africa, although ''A. schimperi'' also occurs in Yemen. Its sap contains the deadly toxin ''ouabain'', a glycosid ...
Succulents:
:The ''Gifboom'' Euphorbias:
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Euphorbia avesmantana''
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Euphorbia virosa''
:The ''Pylgif'' or Bushman poison:
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Adenium boehmianum
''Adenium boehmianum'', the Bushman poison, is a poisonous succulent endemic to the mostly dry regions of northern Namibia and southern Angola. The San people boil the root sap and latex to prepare arrow poison
Arrow poisons are used to poison ...
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Insects:
* A beetle genus, ''
Diamphidia
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''Diamphidia'', or Bushman arrow-poison beetle, is an African genus of flea beetles, in the family Chrysomelidae.
The larvae and pupae of ''Diamphidia'' produce a toxin used by Bushmen as an arrow poison.
The Finnish explorer Hendrik J ...
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