Vogel's Tephrosia

Description: Barbasco (Tephrosia vogelii o cinerea). Date: 16 September 2014, 13:18. Source: Barbasco (Tephrosia vogelii o cinerea). Author: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia.

Description: Barbasco (Tephrosia vogelii o cinerea). Date: 16 September 2014, 13:19. Source: Barbasco (Tephrosia vogelii o cinerea). Author: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia.

Description: English: Tephrosia vogelii growing in the greenhouse of the Deutsches Institut für tropische und subtropische Landwirtschaft, Witzenhausen, Germany Deutsch: Tephrosia vogelii (Fisch-Giftbaum) im Gewächshaus für tropische Nutzpflanzen am Deutschen Institut für tropische und subtropische Landwirtschaft, Witzenhausen. Date: 28 December 2012, 11:53:50. Source: Own work. Author: James Steakley.

Description: Native to tropical Africa, but now a pantropical crop. Used to fix nitrogen and to deter ticks, mites, fleas etc., but it can kill fish if planted near water. Photo from Liparamba area of Tanzania. Date: 7 May 2016, 11:18. Source: Tephrosia vogelii-- the Fish Poison Bean. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.

Native to tropical Africa, but now a pantropical crop. Used to fix nitrogen and to deter ticks, mites, fleas etc., but it can kill fish if planted near water. Photo from Liparamba area of Tanzania.