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Several plants, including nightshade, become more toxic as they wilt and die, posing a danger to horses eating dried hay or plant matter blown into their pastures. [ 3 ] The risk of animals becoming ill during the fall is increased, as many plants slow their growth in preparation for winter, and equines begin to browse on the remaining plants.
The flowering spikes, rubbed with a little sugar, are made into pills, and given internally to people bitten by mad dogs. The leaves, taken fresh and reduced to a pulp, are considered a good remedy when applied externally to the bites of scorpions. The ashes of the plant yield a considerable quantity of potash, which is used in washing clothes ...
The leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and 7 wide. The inflorescence is a dense spike of many flowers. Each flower has long sepals tipped with bright purple and tubular corollas in shades of pink and purple. The fruit is a light brown, fuzzy nutlet about 2 millimeters long.
leaves used as dye for skin, hair, and nails: Lovage: Levisticum officinale: Apiaceae: tall perennial herb culinary leaves, fruit leaves and roots used as vegetables: Flax: Linum usitatissimum: Linaceae: annual herb medicinal seeds also used as an oilseed and fiber crop: Koseret: Lippia abyssinica: Verbenaceae: shrubby herb culinary, tea ...
The leaves can be eaten young; raw, they can be added to salad. [60] The leaves, with an aniseed-grass flavour, can be brewed as tea. [61] In the Middle Ages, yarrow was part of a herbal mixture known as gruit used in the flavoring of beer prior to the use of hops. [62] The flowers and leaves are used in making some liquors and bitters. [7]
The leaves are unstalked, slender, 2–10 centimetres (0.8–3.9 inches) long, and up to 1 cm (0.4 in) wide, with a coarsely toothed margin. They grow in an alternate spiral up the stem, and the lower ones wither early. The flower heads are produced in dense inflorescences and are 1 cm (0.4 in) in diameter.
The opposite leaves are typically 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) long and triangular to lanceolate in shape. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It bears heads of yellow flowers, with around 10–20 disc florets and 3–8 ray florets , the laminae of the latter around 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long.
Symplocos tinctoria (the common sweetleaf, [3] horse-sugar, or yellowwood) is a deciduous or evergreen shrub or tree. It is recognized by pith of twigs chambered; by foliage not notably aromatic when bruised, leaves finely hairy beneath. Shrubs or trees to 17 m tall by 36 cm diameter at breast height. The largest first-year twigs are under 3 mm ...