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Ruscus aculeatus, known as butcher's-broom, [2] is a low evergreen dioecious Eurasian shrub, with flat shoots known as cladodes that give the appearance of stiff, spine-tipped leaves. Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes.
Various species of butcher's broom has been used for medicinal purposes since antiquity. The first mentions of the medicinal use of the butcher's broom come from ancient Greece. The rhizomes of this plant were used to treat inflammations, hemorrhoids, and urinary tract conditions, as well as a diuretic and laxative. [3]
True leaves are smaller green appendages around the flowers. Small yellow flowers bloom in the axil of a leaf-like bract 2.5–3.8 cm (1–1.5 in) long on upper side of phylloclade. Plants are dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate plants. [3] Fruit is a rarely produced red globose berry 0.6 to 1.3 cm (0.25 to 0.5 in) wide ...
For much of his childhood in the late 1940s and early '50s, Robert Libman would keep his father company as he drove the back roads of central Illinois. With his son sitting next to him, Clarence ...
A Missouri butcher shop was ranked one of the nation's best. Hy-Vee and ALDI also were named among the top 10 grocery stores in the country. St. Louis butcher shop ranked as 3rd best in country by ...
Trillium cuneatum, the little sweet betsy, [5] also known as whip-poor-will flower, large toadshade, purple toadshade, and bloody butcher, [6] is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a subgroup of the sessile-flowered trilliums.
Scoparia dulcis is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family.Common names include licorice weed, [2] goatweed, [3] scoparia-weed and sweet-broom in English, tapeiçava, tapixaba, and vassourinha in Portuguese, escobillo in Spanish, and tipychä kuratu in Guarani. [4]
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