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Red Root
Wachendorfia thyrsiflora
Wachendorfia thyrsiflora, the marsh butterfly lily, is a plant species of 0.6–2.5 m (2.0–8.2 ft) high when flowering, that has been assigned to the bloodroot family. It is a large to very large evergreen perennial plant with an underground rootstock with clusters of roots produced at the nodes. The rootstock has a distinctive red colour that results from so-called arylphenalenone pigments. The sturdy, entire and broadly sword-shaped leaves have laterally flattened and pleated leaf blades. The golden yellow...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.81
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.153
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.207
Garden of Health
1507 · p.289
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.272
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.856
Phytognomonica
Giambattista della Porta · 1588 · p.186
Ten Books of Exotic Things
Carolus Clusius · 1605 · p.104
Musaeum metallicum
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1648 · p.839
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 23)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.16
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 5)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.56
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 18)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.68
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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 320601.