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A tea is made from the dried leaves and roots. The roasted roots are used with dandelion and chicory roots for making coffee. * The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds.

* Trees have extensive root systems and are sometimes planted on the banks of streams in order to prevent erosion.

Grows well in heavy clay soils. * Prefers rather moist places such as damp borders, margins of streams and boggy spots. * A decoction of the leaves and stems has been used as a herbal steam bath for chest and back soreness.

* A perennial with tubular reddish-purple flowers in small terminal clusters; native to Europe, North Africa, and Siberia. * A fine yellow dye is obtained from the juice of the plant, it is very durable.

In vernacular use, it is most often known asCunninghamia, but is also sometimes called "China-fir" (though it is not a fir). They are native to China, Taiwan and northern Vietnam, where they may reach 50-55 m in height.

* In vitro studies showed that extracts of Devil's Club inhibit tuberculosis microbes. * It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in stinging spines.

It was believed that, so long as the root was handled occasionally to ensure the scent permeated the person and their clothes, rattlesnakes would not bite them. Some tribes even used to chew the root and then hold rattlesnakes with their teeth and were...

The fresh branches are used as besoms. The cones are slender, yellow-green ripening brown, 10-15 mm long and 4-5 mm broad, with 6-8 overlapping scales. This essential oil also has insect repellent properties.

* The roughleaf dogwood is used as a buffer strip around parking lots, in the median of highways and near the decks and patios of homes. It produces off white four-petaled open flowers that are followed by small, round fruit that ripen from August to...

* It is a perennial plant that develops in a cultivated or wild in the mountains of Peru . A delicious carbonated beverage can be made from the boiled leaves. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins .

* Trees have extensive root systems and are sometimes planted on the banks of streams in order to prevent erosion.

* A good hedging plant. * Ilex glabra is one of the very few evergreen shrubs (broadleaf or narrowleaf) to thrive in wet sites, noted for its evergreen foliage and upright, spreading, and suckering shrub growth habit when in species form.

The leaf blades are up to 52 centimeters long and may be hairless to hairy, with a dense coating of hairs behind the ligules. * This grass grows in disturbed, wet habitat types such as ditches.

* The fruit is used to make jams and jellies, it is also used to make a pleasant tasting fruity-flavoured tea. The stems can be dark red or blackish and are often studded with straight, paired prickles at nodes.

* The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. * Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel.

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...

Umbelliferous plants are so named because of the umbrella-like arrangement of flowers they produce. * The roots and the leaves are aphrodisiac, digestive, mildly expectorant and sedative.

* Thoroughwort is one of the most popular domestic medicines in North America where it is used in the treatment of influenza, colds, acute bronchitis, catarrh and skin diseases. It has been shown to stimulate resistance to viral and bacterial infections,...

Usually stemless, the leaves arising from an underground stock. Tall, occasionally reaching tree size in Texas. White blooms are followed by black fruit about 1/2 inch wide in long clusters.

* It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with...

* The common name comes from the acorns being largely enclosed in the cup; the scientific name comes from the lyrate (lyre-shaped) leaves. * The wood is valuable, similar to that of other white oaks, and used for the same purposes.

* Fragrant pinkish flowers followed by the pods beloved of children. Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach. The oppositely arranged leaves are 7 to 15 centimeters (2.75 to 6 inches) long and are narrow and lance-shaped , with the ends tapering...

* Cohosh comes from an Algonquin word meaning rough in reference to the appearance of plant rhizomes. It grows in a variety of woodland habitats, and is often found in small woodland openings.

* Pinus glabra differs markedly from most other pines in that it does not occur in largely pure pine forests, but is typically found as scattered trees in moist woodland habitats in mixed hardwood forest.

Rigida); it is distinguished from that species by the longer needles and on average slightly larger cones. * This species is possibly no more than a form of P. * The species name is derived from the persistently unopened cones that may remain closed for...

* The origin of Actinidia chinensis is supposed to be the northern Yangtse river valley. * This species is the parent of the cultivated Kiwi fruits, these cultivars are now included under the name A.

* Thoroughwort is one of the most popular domestic medicines in North America where it is used in the treatment of influenza, colds, acute bronchitis, catarrh and skin diseases. It has been shown to stimulate resistance to viral and bacterial infections,...