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Chinese-pink

Dianthus chinensis

Dianthus chinensis, commonly known as fainbow pink or China pink (Chinese: 石竹 shi zhu) is a species of Dianthus native to northern China, Korea, Mongolia, and southeastern Russia.

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Chinese-pink in Famine Relief Herbal

Famine Relief Herbal

Zhu Su · 1406 · p.31

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 161763.