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Its long tuberous root has cream-colored skin and flesh and can be left in the ground when mature as it becomes sweeter in flavor after winter frosts. It also contains antioxidants and both soluble and insoluble dietary fiber.

* The root is eaten cooked. Sweet and pleasantly flavoured. As the demand rose rapidly, the producer's prices increased. Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca, maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku.

* Digitalis purpurea is an herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant. * The plant is popular as a garden subject, and numerous cultivars have been developed with a range of colours from white through pink to purple.

The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position.

It is an annual or biennial herb growing one or more branching stems up to about 70 centimeters in maximum height. Flowers violet blue or white. Plants often form clumps or mounds.

The taste somewhat resembles salsify or parsnips. Wholesome and nutritious.A peppery taste. Fleshy, sweet and succulent. * Oenothera biennis ( Common evening primrose or Evening star ) is a species of Oenothera native to eastern and central North America...

* Luffa aegyptiaca is a species of Luffa . Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete name Luffa cylindrica and frequently misspelt "Luffa aegyptica", it is cultivated and grown for its fruit.

* This plant is commonly seen along roadsides and in disturbed places in North America. It is pollinated by evening flying insects and provides seed as food for finches in the winter.

Integrifolia bears nodding, urn-shaped blue flowers in summer that are 1.5 inches wide. Like many members of that genus, it is prized by gardeners for its showy flowers. It is a fairly short variety, growing only to 3 feet high.

* Marsh mallow is a very useful household medicinal herb. * A confection made from the root since ancient Egyptian time evolved into today's marshmallow treat. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Althaea...

Germination will usually take place within 2 weeks. Pre-soaking the seed for 12 hours in warm water will speed up the germination process, particularly in dry weather. Consequently, hay containing the plant must be properly dried and cured, especially...

* Lavatera thuringiaca is a species of Lavatera native to eastern Europe and southwestern Asia , from southern Germany south to Italy , and east to southern Russia , Kazakhstan , and Turkey .

* Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...

* The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds. However, internal consumption, such as in the form of herbal tea , is discouraged, as it can cause serious liver damage.

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest.

Ex K.Koch) is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to southern Japan and South Korea. Sieboldii Hort. * It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3–6 m (9.8–20 ft) tall, with stout, sparsely branched stems.

NASIR Naturhistorisches Museum, Botanische Abteilung, Wien, Austria. Carpels up to 5, pubescent, glabrescent. Cimicifuga europaea N. 1:30, 1972, Conventry, Wild Flow. Actaea cimicifuga L.

It is native to southern Europe . The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which might explain the plants reputation as an eye strengthener. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because...

* Penthorum sedoides is widely distributed in the United States and Canada. * Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. * In Virginia, Penthorum sedoides grows in habitats such as alluvial swamps, floodplain pools, rocky or sandy shores, fens,...

* Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona .

* A very ornamental plant! * Succeeds in ordinary rich garden soils so long as they are well-drained. * A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of chest pains and stomach aches.

* Chia (Salvia hispanica) was the third most important food of the Aztecs in the time of Cortez (behind corn and beans and in front of amaranth), and has long been an important crop in Mesoamerica for the unique nutritional qualities of its seed.

In Korea, white flowers are more common. It is native to East Asia (such as China , Korea , Japan , and East Siberia ) and bears big blue flowers, although varieties with white and pink flowers are in cultivation.

* Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years. * It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life.

* An excellent garden plant for areas east of the Cascades. Flowers are followed by a fragile, plumed seedhead. * Purple or blue solitary flowers; native to northwest U.S. and Canada.

* Fuller's teasel (the cultivar group Dipsacus fullonum Sativus Group; syn. * The dried flower heads are used for carding wool and as a clothes brush for raising the nap on woollen cloth.

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. * The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics...