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Arctium minus, commonly known as lesser burdock, [2] little burdock, louse-bur, common burdock, [3] button-bur, cuckoo-button, [3] or wild rhubarb, [4] is a biennial plant. This plant is native to Europe , [ 5 ] but has become introduced elsewhere such as Australia , North and South America , and other places.
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.
Rhubarb is a vegetable high in fiber. "[Rhubarb is] rich in fiber, so it really helps with digestion. [It] has a pretty good source of fiber per serving," Wright told Fox News Digital.
The genus includes the vegetable [3] rhubarb. The species have large somewhat triangular shaped leaves with long, fleshy petioles. The flowers are small, greenish-white to rose-red, and grouped in large compound leafy inflorescences. Many rhubarb cultivars have been domesticated as medicinal plants and for human consumption.
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Dense clusters of small, orange-red, flowers are held above the leaves on long slim peduncles. The clusters carry both male and female flowers and flowering continues for most of the year. [4] [5] [8] Fruit are green capsules at first, becoming blackish-brown at maturity when they burst and scatter the seeds up to 4 metres (13 feet) away. [5] [6]
Rhubarb isn’t the only vegetable with toxic leaves. In fact, the potatoes we see at the grocery store are edible, but every other part of the plant is toxic. So if your spuds start growing lots ...