Crossword clues for symphytum
symphytum
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Symphytum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. Its species are known by the common name comfrey. Some species and hybrids, particularly S. officinale and S. × uplandicum, are used in gardening and herbal medicine.
Species include:
- Symphytum asperum (synonym: S. asperrimum) – Prickly comfrey, rough comfrey
- Symphytum bulbosum – Bulbous comfrey
- Symphytum caucasicum – Caucasian comfrey
- Symphytum ibericum – Creeping comfrey
- Symphytum officinale – Comfrey
- Symphytum orientale – White comfrey
- Symphytum tauricum – Crimean comfrey
- Symphytum tuberosum – Tuberous comfrey
- Symphytum × uplandicum (S. asperum × S. officinale, synonym: S. peregrinum) – Russian comfrey, healing herb, blackwort, bruisewort, wallwort, gum plant
Usage examples of "symphytum".
Helenium (Elecampane), the leaves of which resemble Foxglove leaves, though they are less pointed, and the lower lateral veins do not form a 'wing' as in the Foxglove, the leaves of Symphytum officinale (Comfrey), which, however, may be recognized by the isolated stiff hairs they bear, and Verbascum Thapsus (Great Mullein), the leaves of which, unlike those of the Foxglove, have woolly upper and under surfaces, and the hairs of which, examined under a lens, are seen to be branched.
The creamy yellow-flowered form is stated by Hooker to be Symphytum officinale proper, and the purple flowered he considered a variety and named it S.