Flowering tops - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51301 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Achillea santolina | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowering tops | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iran | TDWG Region | Iran | ||
| Parts Held | Flowering tops | Geography Description | Iran, Western Asia, Asia Temperate | ||
| Uses | Flowering topsUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cowan Dr JM | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: K.B. 1931 p.302 Ait. mss; I.H.B.; Schl.; Boiss.ii.266; Ph. Ind. ii 272 The dried herb with flower heads sold in Teheran is collected about Senneh and the surrounding hills (C). The plant is widely distributed in the East and in Northern Af, rica. The flowers are arranged in corymbs. The heads are 5mm high and 3mm in diameter, the tubular flowers are yellow, and the involucres are covered with grey tomentose scales. They have a pleasant aroma. The flowering heads are used as a tonic and carmi, native in Persia and Sind. The strong odour of the herb drives away fleas and other noxious insects. In Baluchistan the drug is given to children for colic. Dymock says the common yarrow (A.millefoliata Grec.) growing in India, goes by the same name and h, as similar properties. Previous geog.origin - Persia | ||||