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Peucedanum officinale

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The long stout taproot - 'black without and white within' and sometimes 'as big as a man's thigh', as Gerard has it - yields, when incised in Spring, a considerable quantity of a yellowish-green
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and retains the strong, sulphurous scent of the root. This harvesting technique, and the product so obtained, very much recall those of two other medicinal
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of greenish-yellow flowers contrast pleasingly with the bushy, radiating mass of dark green, long-petioled leaves, which bear
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found mainly in Central Europe and Southern Europe. It is also native to the UK, where it has the common names
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at both ends and having narrow, cartilaginous margins (i.e., individual lobes resembling blades of grass).
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has been known as a medicinal plant in Britain since at least the 17th century and features in the
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Tutin T.G. BSBI Handbook No.2. Pub. Botanical Society of the British Isles,1980.
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Grieve,M.,Pub.1931,Jonathan Cape Ltd.,reprinted 1974 and 1975.
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perennial with stems up to 2 m in height, solid,
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Asterids
Apiales
Apiaceae
Peucedanum
Binomial name
L.
Synonyms
perennial plant
Apiaceae
Essex
Kent
Shoreham-by-Sea
West Sussex
extinct
grassland
glabrous
striate
petioles
rootstock
umbels
linear
sessile
attenuate

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