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Tussilago
Tussilago farfara, commonly known as coltsfoot,:770 is a plant in the groundsel tribe in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Europe and parts of western and central Asia. The name "tussilago" is derived from the Latin tussis, meaning cough, and ago, meaning to cast or to act on. It has had uses in traditional medicine, but the discovery of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the plant has resulted in liver health concerns.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Selected Illustrations of Plants Collected in Japan
Engelbert Kaempfer · 1712 · p.79
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.603
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.94
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.48
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.174
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.172
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.487
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.490
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.548
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1017
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1016
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.575
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Every page naming Tussilago 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 56223.