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Borage
Borago officinalis
Borage (/ˈbʌrɪdʒ/, Borago officinalis), also known as a starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and has naturalized in many other locales. It grows satisfactorily in gardens in the UK climate, remaining in the garden from year to year by self-seeding. The leaves are edible and the plant is grown in gardens for that purpose in some parts of Europe. The plant is also commercially...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Herbarius
1485 · p.58
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.123
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.57
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.216
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.87
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.59
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.55
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.58
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.76
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.76
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.57
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.86
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Borago officinalis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 52287.