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Internal ID UUID6440265968734865569552
Scientific name Furcraea foetida
Authority (L.) Haw.
First published in Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum 1812

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It is also used as a medicinal plant, and for its essential oils. It is also grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, and is used as a windbreak or hedge.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Agave commelini Salm-Dyck Hort. Dyck. : 301 (1834)
Agave foetida L. Sp. Pl. : 323 (1753)
Agave gigantea (Vent.) D.Dietr. Syn. Pl. 2: 1192 (1840)
Agave madagascariensis (Haw.) Salm-Dyck Index Pl. Succ. Hort. Dyck. : 1 (1822)
Aloe foetida (L.) Crantz Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 466 (1766)
Fourcroya gigantea (Vent.) Hook. Bot. Mag. 86: t. 5163. 1860 (1860)
Funium piliferum Willemet Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 18: 26 (1798)
Furcraea atroviridis Jacobi & Göpp. in Jacobi, Vers. Syst. Ord. Agav 273.
Furcraea barilletti Jacobi Abh. Schles. Ges. Vaterl. Cult., Abth. Naturwiss. 1869: 166 (1869)
Furcraea commelyni (Salm-Dyck) Kunth Enum. Pl. 5: 842 (1850)
Furcraea gigantea Vent. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1: 65 (1793)
Furcraea gigantea var. mediopicta Trel. Stand. Cycl. Hort. 3: 1306. 1915
Furcraea madagascariensis Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ. : 42 (1819)
Furcraea viridis Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 353 (1884)
Furcraea watsoniana Sander Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 23: 242. 1898 (1898)
Agave bulbosa K.Koch Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Konigl. Preuss. Staaten 14(17): 130. 1871 [29 Apr 1871]

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Language Common/alternative name
English giant cabuya
English green aloe
English mauritius hemp
German mauritiushanf
French choca vert
French chanvre de maurice
Polish furkroja olbrzymia
Polish fourcroya olbrzymia
Polish konopie z mauritiusa
Portuguese pita
Telugu ఫర్క్రేఏ ఫోఎటిడ
Tonga faumalila
Chinese 黄纹万年麻
Chinese 萬年麻
Chinese 臭萬年
Chinese 毛里斯麻
Chinese 巨麻
Chinese 万年麻
Chinese 大龍舌蘭

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000768263
Florida Plant Atlas 118
USDA Plants FUFO
Tropicos 1201374
INPN 447699
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:64429-1
The Plant List kew-307055
Observations.org 125540
NCBI Taxonomy 1824555
Nature Serve 2.137586
IPNI 75499-3
iNaturalist 163131
GBIF 2769796
Freebase /m/06lmqc
EPPO FURFO
EOL 1088604
US Library of Congress sh2021006927
USDA GRIN 70919
Wikipedia Furcraea_foetida
Open Tree Of Life 643224

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