Sarcoca dodecandra

Taxobox
name = "Sarcocadodecandra"


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Phytolaccaceae
genus = "Sarcoca"
species = "S. dodecandra"
binomial = "Sarcoca dodecandra"
binomial_authority = ( L'Hérit. ) V.Skalický

"Sarcoca dodecandra", basionym "Phytolacca dodecandra", commonly known as endod, Gopo Berry, or African soapberry, is a trailing shrub or climber native to Tropical Africa, Southern Africa, and Madagascar.cite book|last=Hanelt|first=Peter|title=Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops (Except Ornamentals)|publisher=Springer|date=2001|isbn=3540410171]

Endod has been selected and cultivated by Africans for centuries, particularly in Ethiopia. It is used as a soap and shampoo as well as a poison to stun fish. Endod or እንዶድ in Amharic is lethal to snails - a fact discovered by Ethiopian scientists - and may be effective controlling schistosomiasis. After an Ethiopian scientist demonstrated endod's potency to American scientists, they took out a patent, hoping to sell endod as a biological control for the Zebra mussel, a pest in the Great Lakes of the US and Canada [Citation
inventor-last =Lee
inventor-first =Harold H.
inventor2-last =Fraleigh
inventor2-first =Peter C.
issue-date =1993
title = Method of controlling zebra mussels with extract of Phytolacca dodecandra
country-code =US
patent-number =5252330] [Citation
inventor-last =Lee
inventor-first =Harold H.
inventor2-last =Fraleigh
inventor2-first =Peter C.
issue-date =1994
title = Method of controlling zebra mussels
country-code =US
patent-number =5334386] .

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