According to the physician of the Roman emperor Nero, Dioscorides, the
root, if drunk with wine, helps to prevent snake bites.
I can't find the origin of the name ox-tongue for this tribe of plants.
Perhaps it has to do with the red dye the Greeks extracted from it.
Henk
Op 2018-06-20 om 20:26 schreef mike wilson:
And why viper? I wonder if it's due to the flower shape? Doesn't remind me of
ox-tongue. Amongst other oddities, it has blue pollen and red stamens.
On 20 June 2018 at 07:57 Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote:
"Something to do with cattle", I thought, because of bu-. It should have then
followed that -gloss = tongue, but it's too early in the morning for me to spot that.
Anyway, it's apparently ox-tongue. Bu = bos, as in bovine, boeuf, beef; gloss
as in glossary.
B
On 20 Jun 2018, at 07:20, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
The English name, Viper's Bugloss, is much more interesting. I have no idea of
the etymology.
On 19 June 2018 at 22:07 Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Dan and Ann.
The blue flowers with the poppy in the third pic is Echium vulgare or
blueweed according Wikipedia. These are here quite abundant as well at
present and the bees like them.
Henk
Op 2018-06-19 om 22:51 schreef ann sanfedele:
Henk,
enjoyed the whole gallery so much -- the orchids are nice , but a
number of others really talked to me more.. and I dont see thatyou had
shared those with PDML before.
These:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42102765704/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/41915613115/in/photostream/
and this one
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42777152291/in/photostream/
a lonely orange bloom among the purple stalks - which look to me to be
a poppy and pentstamon-
ann
On 6/19/2018 4:35 PM, Henk Terhell wrote:
It looks like we had a good year for this type of wild orchid as I've
seen here so many in the wet fields in our dunes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/29033030688/in/photostream/
Henk
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