The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·796343SpeciesPlantae453 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›Soapberries, Cashews, Mahoganies, and Allies
  6. ›citrus family
  7. ›Zanthoxyloideae
  8. ›Dictamnus
Burning-bush
Plate 1 of 4. (c) V.S. Volkotrub, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by V.S. Volkotrub · via iNaturalist

Burning-bush

Dictamnus dasycarpus

Dictamnus dasycarpus or Chinese dittany is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native from southeast Siberia to China and Korea. It was first described by Nikolai Turczaninow in 1842. It has also been treated as only a variety of Dictamnus albus.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the old herbals & bestiaries

Burning-bush in Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle

Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle

李時珍 · 1596 · p.52

Burning-bush in Illustrated Investigation of the Names and Realities of Plants, Volume 7

Illustrated Investigation of the Names and Realities of Plants, Volume 7

吳其濬 · 1848 · p.76

Burning-bush in Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 10)

Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 10)

吳其濬 · 1848 · p.15

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Dictamnus dasycarpus 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 796343.