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Dictamnus albus is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is also known as burning bush , [ 2 ] dittany , [ 2 ] gas plant [ 2 ] or fraxinella . [ 2 ] This herbaceous perennial has several geographical variants. [ 3 ]
Dictamnus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to temperate Eurasia from Spain to China. [2] The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. [ 1 ]
Gas plant can refer to: Dictamnus or "Gas-plant", a flowering plant; Gas-fired power plant; Gas turbine power plant; Gasworks, an industrial plant for the production ...
Alexander and Zhenia Fleisher relate the biblical story of the burning bush to the plant Dictamnus. [20] They write: Intermittently, under yet unclear conditions, the plant excretes such a vast amount of volatiles that lighting a match near the flowers and seedpods causes the plant to be enveloped by flame.
Dictamnus dasycarpus or Chinese dittany is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native from southeast Siberia to China and Korea. [1] It was first described by Nikolai Turczaninow in 1842. [2] It has also been treated as only a variety of Dictamnus albus. [1]
Homeowners in Cheatham County, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, are fuming after the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) surveyed their land for a potential transmission line for a new methane ...
Origanum dictamnus, the dittany of Crete, Cretan dittany or hop marjoram, is a tender perennial plant that grows 20–30 cm high. It is known in Greek as δίκταμο ( díktamo , cf. " dittany ") or in the Cretan dialect as έρωντας ( erontas , "love").
The plants used in these recipes include the lemon balm Melissa officinalis, Tilia tomentosa, the spearmint Mentha spicata, the gas-plant Dictamnus albus, St John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum, absinth Artemisia absinthium, the very popular Sideritis raeseri, known colloquially in Greece as “mountain tea”, and the elder bush Sambucus nigra ...