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==== Brussels Plants ==== | ==== Brussels Plants ==== | ||
* Koolmijnenkaai plants | * Koolmijnenkaai plants | ||
- | the information about plants which were found around the FoAM building/ Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 | + | the information about plants which grows around the FoAM building/ Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 |
- | * Solanum dulcamara-is a species of vine in the potato genus Solanum, family Solanaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia, | + | * Solanum dulcamara |
+ | -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, | 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. | from woodlands to scrubland, hedges and marshes. | ||
- | Bittersweet is a semi-woody herbaceous perennial vine, which scrambles over other plants, capable of reaching | + | 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 |
- | The fruit is an ovoid red berry about 1 cm long, soft and juicy, poisonous | + | to be under the evil eye.The older physicians valued Bittersweet highly |
- | As with most Solanum species, the foliage is also poisonous to humans. | + | Gerard says of it:'The juice is good for those that have fallen from high places, and have been thereby bruised or beaten, for it is thought to dissolve blood congealed or cluttered anywhere in the intrals and to heale the hurt places.' |
- | Usage: | + | Boerhaave, the celebrated Dutch physician, |
- | Bittersweet is used in naturopathy and herbalism. | + | fever and inflammatory diseases of all kinds. |
- | Its main usage is for conditions | + | There are few complaints |
- | Bittersweet is considered | + | |
- | Other common names for Solanum dulcamara: | + | |
- | include trailing nightshade, bittersweet, trailing bittersweet, climbing nightshade, blue bindweed, bitter nightshade, fellenwort, dogwood, woody nightshade, poisonflower, | + | 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. | ||
-Information source: | -Information source: | ||
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+ | * Hordeum murinum (wall barley) | ||
+ | * Plantago major(Broad-Leaved Plantain) | ||
+ | * Buddleja Davidii (Butterfly Bush) | ||
+ | * Pissenlit officinal or Taraxacum officinale(Dandelion) | ||
+ | * Crepis tectorum (Narrow-Leaved Hawk' | ||
+ | * Conyza canadensis | ||
+ | * Galinsoga ciliata | ||
+ | * Marchantiophyta/ | ||
+ | --Description-- | ||
+ | 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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