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Scientific name - Madhuca longifolia (L.) MACBA. Synonyms - Bassia longifolia L. Popular names - Mahu, tree butter, butter tree, mahva, erappe, irippa, IPPA. Distribution and Habitat - native in central India, is common in sub-mountainous regions of Himalaiei. Description - deciduu tree, 20 meters high, round crown. Leaves alternate, elliptic, 7.5-13 cm, margin entire, top acute, 10/12 pairs of ribs, stalks 1-2 cm long. Flowers axillary, creamy, fragrant, calyx covered with dense hairs; Corola pale yellow, 1 cm long, 6-12 petals, tube brushless. Stamens 16-20, in two rows. Blooms in February-April. Fruit baca green, yellow at maturity, ovoid, with brown hairs. Seeds 1-3, black. Properties and Uses - the leaves contain thelcaloizi, seeds contain fatty oil, bark is astringent and tonic properties. Flowers have an effect on bronchitis and colds. 30 g with 250 ml of milk. For rheumatism, decoction of bark. The oil extracted from seeds can be applied to interesting places. For diabetes, decoction of bark, beneficial results. The oil extracted from seeds is used in treating hemorrhoids, has laxative properties, treatment of chronic constipation. Madhuca leaves are effective in treating eczema. Fresh flowers are sweet, rich in vitamin A, are edible fresh or cooked. References Dinesh Kumar Tyaqi - Pharma Forestry - Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2005 HKBakhru - Herbs That Heal - Orient Paperbacks, 1998 James A. Duke - Nuts - CRC, 2000 Orient Longman - Indian Medicinal Plants - South Asia Books, 1995
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Brassica nigra Koek. - Black mustard
Brassica nigra is herbaceous annual native to Asia Minor, but is cultivated on all continents for the seeds. The seeds are used for preparation of mustard. Hedeoma pulegioides
Stem very thin, erect, branched, finely pubescent, 15-45 cm high. Leaves ovat until obovata-oblong, ribbed, few soirees, top obtuse, base narrow, glabra, slightly pubescent, thin, upper leaves are smaller. Flowers in bunches, axillary, pedicel pubescent, less than or equal to calyx, calyx pubescent, lobes 3 short and 2 longer lobes. Corola white or blue-violet. Blooms in July-September. Anthyllis vulneraria L. - head Turcului, harmful
Herbaceous perennial herb, polymorphic, rhizome. Prostrata strain or ascending, pubescent, hairs white, 5-40 cm high. Basal leaves, arranged in rosette, stems leaves alternate, imparipenat-compound, folio oblong-linear, foliole terminal is greater than the side glabrata or slightly pubescent on the upper face, lower face and Seto. Allium cepa L. - onion
Herbaceous biennial, bulb white, gold, red or purple, 5-8 x 3.10 cm. Leaves persistent, 4-10, fistula, 30-100 x 3-20 mm. Umbela blossom persistent, erect, compact, rear obsolete, ovata, ± equal, leading to acute acuminata. Marrubium vulgare - Voronez
Perennial herbaceous plants, root fusiform. Right strain, wood and rigid, pubescent, 30-100 cm tall. Leaves petiolate, opposite, green-gray, pubescent on the underside, lamina ovata or suborbiculara, iregulat-edge gear, top round or obtuse, base subcordata, 2.5-5 cm long, 1-2 cm long stalks. Magnoliopsida
Quercus pubescens
Deciduous tree, native (Romania), 15 m high. The stem is often crooked, irregular. Crown rare, bright, large and irregular. Bark is thick, deeply wrinkled, forming a cracked ritidom in rectangular plates, dark brown. Acacia sieberiana
Acacia sieberiana - tree, 3-25 m tall, rounded crown. Increase in savannah, in semi-arid regions of Africa, from 0-1850 m altitude. Caragana arborescens
Deciduu shrub, 2-5 m high. Bark gray young branches are yellow-green. Leaves alternate; paripenat-compound, 4-6 pairs of folio oval-elliptic, 10-35 mm long, dark green in summer and autumn yellow, 5-10 cm long; spinescente Stipe. Flowers solitary, Corola yellow, 20-25 mm long, increase the armpit leaves, blooming from May to June. Haplophyllum patavinum
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Bellium L. is a genus of the family Asteraceae (tribe Astereae, subtrib Bellidinae), very close to the genus Bellis L. Bellium artrutxensis is a new species of the Balearic Islands. |
 
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