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physcion
AMORPHA FRUTICOSA
LINNAEUS
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Common name: False indigo bush
Distribution: United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia
Habitat: Freshwater lakes, streams
Description: This is a perennial shrub growing to a maximum height of 6 m.
Foliage is green, and the leaves are made up of many hairy, oval-shaped,
spine-tipped lealets. Inlorescence is a spike-shaped raceme of many pur-
ple lowers.
Compounds and activities: New antimicrobial bibenzyl metabolites, viz.,
amorfrutin A and B have been isolated from the wax fractions of the fruit
of this species (Mitscher et al., 1981). The other compound isolated from
this species is 6-O-β- D- glucopyranosyl-12- a- hydroxy dalpanol, a rotenoid.
