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==== Brussels Plants ==== | ==== Brussels Plants ==== | ||
- | * Koolmijnenkaai plants | + | the information about plants which grows around the FoAM building/ Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 |
- | the information about plants which were found around the FoAM building/ Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 | + | |
- | -Solanum dulcamara- | + | ===== Solanum dulcamara |
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+ | is a species of vine in the potato genus Solanum, family Solanaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia, | ||
+ | and widely naturalised elsewhere, including North America, where it is an invasive problem weed. It occurs in a very wide range of habitats, | ||
+ | from woodlands to scrubland, hedges and marshes. | ||
+ | In the days of belief in witchcraft, shepherds used to hang it as a charm round the necks of those of their beasts whom they suspected | ||
+ | to be under the evil eye.The older physicians valued Bittersweet highly and applied it to many purposes in medicine and surgery, for which it is no longer used. It was in great repute as far back as the time of Theophrastus, | ||
+ | Gerard says of it:' | ||
+ | Boerhaave, the celebrated Dutch physician, considered the young shoots superior to Sarsaparilla as a restorative, | ||
+ | fever and inflammatory diseases of all kinds. | ||
+ | There are few complaints for which it has not been at some time recommended. | ||
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+ | The drug possesses feeble narcotic properties, with the power of increasing the secretions, particularly those of the skin and kidneys. It has no action on the pupil of the eye. | ||
+ | It is chiefly used as an alterative in skin diseases, being a popular remedy for obstinate skin eruptions, scrofula and ulcers. | ||
+ | It has also been recommended in chronic bronchial catarrh, asthma and whoopingcough. | ||
+ | For chronic rheumatism and for jaundice it has been much employed in the past, an infusion of 1 OZ. of the dried herb to 1/2 pint water being taken in wineglassful doses, two or three times daily. | ||
+ | From the fluid extract made from the twigs, a decoction is prepared of 10 drachms in 2 pints of boiling water, boiled down to 1 pint, and taken in doses of 1/2 to 2 OZ. with an equal quantity of milk. | ||
+ | The berries have proved poisonous to a certain degree to children. | ||
+ | Fluid extract, 1/2 to 2 drachms. | ||
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+ | ===== Hordeum murinum (wall barley) ===== | ||
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+ | * Plantago major(Broad-Leaved Plantain) | ||
+ | * Buddleja Davidii (Butterfly Bush) | ||
+ | * Pissenlit officinal or Taraxacum officinale(Dandelion) | ||
+ | ===== Crepis tectorum (Narrow-Leaved Hawk' | ||
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+ | Crepis(Crepis tectorum) is a genus of about 200 annual and perennial flowering plants found in the family Asteraceae resembling Dandelion, the main differences being that Hawksbeards have multiple flowers per plant as well as branching stems. | ||
+ | The name Crepis derives from Greek, meaning ' | ||
+ | Species can be found all through the northern hemisphere and tropical Africa. | ||
+ | Crepis species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Broad-barred White. | ||
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+ | * Conyza canadensis | ||
+ | * Galinsoga ciliata | ||
+ | ===== Marchantiophyta/ | ||
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+ | Most liverworts are small, usually from 2–20 millimetres (0.08–0.8 in) wide with individual plants less than 10 centimetres (4 in) long, so they are often overlooked. The most familiar liverworts consist of a prostrate, flattened, ribbon-like or branching structure called a thallus (plant body); these liverworts are termed thallose liverworts. However, most liverworts produce flattened stems with overlapping scales or leaves in three or more ranks, the middle rank being conspicuously different from the outer ranks; these are called leafy liverworts or scale liverworts. | ||
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+ | Liverworts have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, with the sporophyte dependent on the gametophyte. Cells in a typical liverwort plant each contain only a single set of genetic information, | ||
+ | Another unusual feature of the liverwort life cycle is that sporophytes (i.e. the diploid body) are very short-lived, | ||
+ | --Ecology-- | ||
+ | Today, liverworts can be found in many ecosystems across the planet except the sea and excessively dry environments, | ||
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+ | * Geranium robertianum | ||