Talk:Dieffenbachia

message: 172.167.66.160: You have twice edited the article to say this plant is extinct without citing any sources, which I have reverted. This space is reserved for you to cite your sources if you want to change the article to say it is extinct again. Arrenlex 05:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are three growing from pots 20 feet from where I'm sitting as I write this.  140.147.236.194 (talk) 21:44, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The dieffenbachia is extinct? 

message: I propose getting rid of the "charcoal treatment" - these are mentioned in old literature.  Charcoal is NOT indicated in case of a local reaction (for which most of Diffenbachia are) because it's typically a localized reaction. Further, there is no good evidence to support the practice of using charcoal in this type of plant exposure. Dr. B (talk) 21:08, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi! Take it easy: look here →
<quote>Many plants accumulate calcium oxalate crystals in response to surplus calcium, which is found throughout the natural environment.</quote> (Not at your home:)  Lincoln Josh (talk) 13:56, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

text: I searched a lot about this flower because a week ago a child died in Albania because he eat a piece of this flower. According to his mother his tongue go swollen and inflated(puffed) so fast and he couldn't breath. Also a friend a mine had the face specially the lips and nose numb for hours because she threw it from balcony accidentally and when she cleaned the place she smelt the smell of it. Albanian articles for the little boy who died. Some other article about how poison is it. Margott (talk) 10:50, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extremely poisonous? 

message: While this article asserts, that Dieffenbachia is named to commemorate Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach, the german WP-page asserts:
:Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Direktor des Botanischen Gartens in Wien von 1845 bis 1865 benannte die Gattung nach seinem langjährigen Obergärtner :de:Joseph Dieffenbach (1796–1863). (=... named the genus according to his chief gardener JOSEPH Dieffenbach.)
Who is right? Which of the two Dieffenbach´s is commemorated? Pietersz (talk) 01:46, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: According to  it was named after J. F. Dieffenbach by Schott. It also says that J. F. Dieffenbach was a german physician and botanist, but it also lists a different birth and death dates (1794-1847) that don't conform to Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach's birth and death dates. It doesn't conform to :de:Joseph Dieffenbach for that matter either. So I don't know myself. The book Aroids:Plants of the Arum Family by Deni Bown might have this information however.Chhe (talk) 04:14, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've found out the paper where Schott describes Dieffenbachia for the first time. It was Für Liebhaber der Botanik
by HW Schott - Wiener Z. Kunst, 1829. Maybe the answer to the question might be in there. It will be tough to track down though; probably requires a library.Chhe (talk) 03:32, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which Dieffenbach?

message: I would like to remove the section "Cancer treatment" entirely, as the sources in the section do not give reasonable support to the claim. At most, the citation about antiangiogenesis gives some weight, but that source only speaks to Dieffenbachia seguine. Furthermore, I do not see any sources here that mention this practice (applying Dieffenbachia to as an antiangiogenesis inhibitor for cancer treatment) in any society, let alone the Philippines as is currently written. I am open to a rewording and section retitling for a focus on antiangiogenesis or cultural uses of Dieffenbachia with more sources, otherwise I will remove the section. ViterbiAlg (talk) 20:00, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The section has since been removed. ViterbiAlg (talk) 18:06, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cancer treatment 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: An editor has added the line "Dieffenbachia species are a common calling site for male Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni frogs.". This claim is entirely on the basis of one study "TERRITORIAL AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR OF THE TROPICAL AMERICAN FROG CENTROLENELLA FLEISCHMANNI", with a follow up paper on the same study "THE EFFECT OF VEGETATION ON THE PROPAGATION OF CALLS IN THE NEOTROPICAL FROG CENTROLENELLA FLEISCHMANNI". The author of the study does not make the claim that this author has suggested. In the study Dieffenbachia merely happened to be the predominant low story broad leaf plant in the local area. The author implies that the genus of plant is not important, merely the size of the leaves. This is supported in "Local distribution and notes on reproduction of Vitreorana aff. eurygnatha (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Sergipe, Northeastern Brazil". Jameel the Saluki (talk) 10:28, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: it does seem sensible to have removed it. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:57, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni