Word: plectranthus
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...write by making indentations with the acacia thorn, passing on or leaving the leaf somewhere for the recipient. We also learned how the fibrous branches of sokotei tree can be used as an effective toothbrush and toothpick, and heard about the medicinal properties of plants like plectranthus (used for sores and as bee repellent). On a visit to a manyatta (village), two goats were purchased for supper and killed in front of us; we drew the line at joining the crew in drinking the blood...
...plant is at the top of that heap. No other in history has been more photographed, more glimpsed in person by the world's high and mighty, more privy (if a plant can by privy) to the portentous intimacies of world politics, than a certain Swedish ivy (Plectranthus australis) that dwells deep inside the Executive Mansion...
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