Desert Milkweed Constituents: "A. sublata roots contain at least thirteen cardenolide glycosides and one lignan glycoside. A. albicans and A. erosa contain similar glycosides, desglucasyrioside, and alpha amyrin; and the latex of A. erosa and probably the other two contains labriformin. The mild cardiac glycoside asclepiadin appears in A. erosa and undoubtedly in the others as well." Ref. B p.124 |