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Shoreline Community College Arboretum: Pachysandra

Shoreline CC Arboretum is the student-led initiative to document and inform the incredible diversity of over 200 species of flora adorning our outdoor campus as it grows and changes with future development.

Title

Pachysandra

Pachysandra terminalis (BUXACEAE)

Description

Range

Japan, N. to Central China

Ecology

Ecology

"Many plants have mechanisms of physical or chemical resistance that protect them from herbivores in their environment. The ornamental plant Pachysandra terminalis is highly unpalatable to voles, but the nature of this resistance is not fully understood." [1]

Equity

Equity: Cultural and Historical Significance

"[Pachysandra] has been used extensively in Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, as a Tujia traditional medicine against pain and stomach problems." [3]

Economics

Economics

"Pachysandra and other members of the Buxaceae contain alkaloids with antibacterial, antiviral, and anticancer properties." [2]

Sources

Sources

[1] Curtis, P. D., Rowland, E. D., Harribal, M. M., Curtis, G. B., Renwick, J. A., Martin-Rehrmann, M. D., & Good, G. L. (2003). Plant compounds in Pachysandra terminalis that act as feeding deterrents to prairie voles. HortScience, 38(3), 390-394.

[2] Van den Ende, W., Coopman, M., Clerens, S., Vergauwen, R., Le Roy, K., Lammens, W., & Van Laere, A. (2011). Unexpected presence of graminan-and levan-type fructans in the evergreen frost-hardy eudicot Pachysandra terminalis (Buxaceae): purification, cloning, and functional analysis of a 6-SST/6-SFT enzyme. Plant Physiology, 155(1), 603-614.

[3] Zhai, H. Y., Zhao, C., Zhang, N., Jin, M. N., Tang, S. A., Qin, N., ... & Duan, H. Q. (2012). Alkaloids from Pachysandra terminalis inhibit breast cancer invasion and have potential for development as antimetastasis therapeutic agents. Journal of natural products, 75(7), 1305-1311.

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