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Plant records: Pyrethrum is the most famous insecticidal plant
Pyrethrum is a perennial herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae family, with the understated elegance, freshness and distinctiveness typical of Asteraceae plants. Yet this beautiful plant happens to be a deadly nemesis of mosquitoes and other pests. It turns out that pyrethrum contains pyrethrin and cinerin; pyrethrin, also known as pyrethroid, is a colorless, viscous oily liquid