She thinks the technique she developed to find the pathway in
mayapple could be applied to a wide range of other plants and drugs.
Last week, there were bright yellow "Stop
Mayapple Center!'' signs lining
Mayapple Road, where Slater lives and from which she derived her retreat's name.
This discovery attains significance because it suggests that American
mayapple soon offer an alternative to its Indian counterpart, which has been harvested almost to extinction because of its anti-cancer properties.
By midsummer, the woods are full of ripening berries: wild straw-berries appear in June, followed by passion fruit (in the Southeast), blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, serviceberries and
mayapples in July.
He pointed out bloodroot, American ginseng,
mayapple and witch hazel--just some of the plants he cultivates.
Meanwhile, pharmaceutical researchers are using compounds in the
mayapple, a wildflower common in the eastern United States, to make anti-tumor drugs, A primary message of the book is that this valuable biodiversity will disappear unless steps are taken soon to ward off environmental destruction.
Like pears and apples,
mayapple patches with their shiny, umbrella-like leaves, catch the eye of turkey hunters in the spring, while the banana-like aroma of ripe pawpaws can be detected even by the inferior sense of smell we humans possess.
In the summer you'll find mulberry, wild currant,
mayapple, elderberry, and purslane.
Farther back, there's furtive jack-in-the-pulpit and
mayapple, and along our driveway, wild columbine's whiskered pendants.
The humble
mayapple, so plentiful in the shade of forests in the southern and central United States, may soon take a more prominent place in the sun thanks to research.
Organ preformation in
mayapple as a mechanism for historical effects on demography.
Botanical products that have been used as chemotherapy agents are periwinkle, pacific yew, and derivatives from
mayapple, American mandrake, or American podophyllum (Montbriand, 1999).
Potential for the loss of self-incompatibility in pollen-limited populations of
mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum).
Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), violets (Viola spp.), and bedstraw (Galium aparine) are also abundant.
