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Rheum officinale, the Chinese rhubarb, [3] [4] or Indian rhubarb [4] is a rhubarb from the family Polygonaceae native to China. [5] In Chinese it is called yào yòng dà huáng ( Chinese : 药用大黄 ), literally meaning medicinal rhubarb .
Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks (petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. [2] The plant is a herbaceous perennial that grows from short, thick rhizomes. Historically, different plants have been called "rhubarb" in English.
Chinese rhubarb (Chinese: 大黄) can mean either of two species of rhubarb, genus Rheum: Rheum palmatum Linnaeus 1759, also known as Turkey rhubarb, East Indian rhubarb, or palmate rhubarb. Rheum officinale Baillon 1871, also known as Indian rhubarb, Tibetan rhubarb, or medicinal rhubarb. Category: Set index articles on plant common names.
Rhabarbarum Fabr. Rheum[2] is a genus of about 60 herbaceous perennial plants in the family Polygonaceae. Species are native to eastern Europe, southern and eastern temperate Asia, with a few reaching into northern tropical Asia. Rheum is cultivated in Europe and North America. [1] The genus includes the vegetable [3] rhubarb.
Rheum palmatum is a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family Polygonaceae. It is commonly called Chinese rhubarb, [1][2] ornamental rhubarb, [3] Turkey rhubarb[2] or East Indian rhubarb. [2] Rheum palmatum is a herbaceous perennial related to the edible rhubarb. It is primarily used in traditional medicine, and as an ornamental subject ...
S. baicalensis. Binomial name. Scutellaria baicalensis. Georgi [1] Synonyms. Scutellaria macrantha Fisch. [1] Scutellaria baicalensis, with the common name Baikal skullcap or Chinese skullcap, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae.
Rheum rhaponticum, the false rhubarb, rhapontic rhubarb or rhapontic, is a plant species in the genus Rheum found in the wild. [2] It is the only Rheum species found only in Europe, and is now restricted to the Rila mountain range in south-western Bulgaria. [1] [3] [4] It was introduced to other countries in Europe. [3]
Rheum rhabarbarum was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. [3] Linnaeus also described R. undulatum, but this is now considered to be the same species. [1]The name rha barbarum, Latin for 'foreign rha', was first used in the writings of Celsus, who uses the word to describe a valued medicinal root imported from the east.