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RE: Beauty also fights - Original poem in haikus - Saturdayhaiku - @prydefoltz
Beautiful haiku, in our land they call it "Flower of the queen". It is said that we must be careful because it is toxic, but it has healing properties. I know her white and pink.
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Oh yeah! This bouquet is known in Venezuela as "Flor de la Reina", but its most widespread name in the world, although it is not the only one, is "oleander" (Nerium oleander), also known as laurel flower, pink laurel, baladre, trinitaria and in some cases as Roman laurel. According to what I researched, it is being used for the treatment of cancer and it has been shown to be effective in pancreatic cancer, although it is still being studied and is warned that it is very poisonous.