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Briza

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briza [′brē·zə]
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Briza 

(quaking grass), a genus of perennial and annual herbs of the family Gramineae. The inflorescence is a panicle; the Spike-lets are large and many-flowered. There are about 15 species distributed in Europe, Western Asia, North Africa, and South America. The plants were imported into North America. The USSR has five or six species, growing in meadows and forest glades and forest glades and amid shrubbery. The species B. media is found in the European USSR, and B. minor is found in the Caucasus. Both species serve as pasturage for livestock and are cultivated as ornamentals. B. maxima is also raised as an ornamental.



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Mind-altering & Poisonous Plants of the World By Michael Wink and Ben-Erik van Wyk Briza Publications 2008 PO Box 56569 Arcadia 0007 Pretoria South Africa www.
Crydwellt ydi un enw sydd gan Dafydd Davies arno yn ei lyfr 'Enwau Cymraeg ar Blanhigion'' Briza media ydi'r enw gwyddonol arno a 'Quaking-grass' yn Saesneg.
1st Edition, Briza Publications, Pretoria (South Africa), p 234 Watt JM, Breyer-Brandwijk MG (1962) The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa.
 
 
 
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