| Accepted name: |
Symphytum officinale L. |
| Synonym(s): |
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| English names: |
Healing-herb
Common Comfrey
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| French names: |
Consoude officinale
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Boraginaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HSYMOF
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
P |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Since ancient times used as medicinal plant which contains alkaloids, partly of pyrrolizidin structure. In Europe occasionally cultivated for medicinal purposes, as forage plant, and for the leaves which are occasionally used as a potherb. In Cuba grown as medicinal plant, in Brazil sometimes as forage plant.(1) |
| Key Characters: |
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