Talk:Erythrina mulungu
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Bogus citation: "This may be in part due to one of the alkaloids found in E. mulungu, scoulerine [5]" If you look at the article cited, E. mulungu is not one of the eight plants they anaylzed. This appears to me to be a myth that's being propogated by botanical vendors.
- I was the one who added that line (and citation), I'll remove it, as what you say is indeed correct, and I can't find a study stating E. mulungu contains scoulerine for the time being. --Mark PEA 15:18, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Mark. A number of vendors may have used this article as a source, because I have seen numerous citations of that same article used to back claims that E. mulungu contains scoulerine on ethnobotanical sites. Interesting how these things propagate.
etymology[edit]
Mulungu in some african languages means "god" or a kind of deity. No miracle, there are a lot of people descending from African slaves. --FK1954 (talk) 11:47, 20 December 2023 (UTC)