HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Chemicals taken from foxglove are used to make a prescription drug called digoxin. Digitalis lanata is the major source of digoxin in the US. Foxglove is most commonly used for heart failure and fluid build up in the body (congestive heart failure or CHF) and irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation).

Detailed explanation-2: -Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove or common foxglove, is a poisonous species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe. It has also naturalised in parts of North America and some other temperate regions.

Detailed explanation-3: –The carefully dried leaves have two primary glycosides, purpurea glycosides A and B. secondary glycoside digitoxin and one molecule of glucose.