Comfrey
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Comfrey (Symphytum) - Suited for naturalising in open sunny places, and, when well grown in masses, their foliage has a fine effect. The largest and best kinds for the wild garden are S. asperrimum and S. caucasicum.
Comfrey
Symphytum officinale L.
Family: Boraginaceae, Borage
Genus: Symphytum ...
Comfrey
Characteristics
The flowers are a creamy-white colour or purplish. Distinctive in having strongly winged stem.
Comfrey
Scientific Name: Symphytum officinale L.
Synonym: Symphytum uliginosum
Family: Boraginaceae ...
Additional Comments: In the past, comfrey baths were popular before marriage to repair the hymen and thus 'restore virginity'. Gerard wrote in 1597 that Comfrey should be '...
Comfrey
Comfrey information
Comfrey - Symphytum officinalis (in the Boraginaceae or Borage family) ...
Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum) was used by the Cherokee. A decoction of the root was used to treat itch and a syrup for cloudy urine. It was also an ingredient in the Green Corn Medicine.
( Comfrey )
Goldsmith is a vigorous, rhizomatous, spreading perennial with upright stems and coarse, hairy, dark green leaves with creamy-gold margins, up to 10 inches long. Bears forked cymes of light blue, pink, or creamy-white flowers in spring.
Symphytum Ã- uplandicum 'Axminster Gold' (Russian comfrey)
Photo/Illustration: Virginia Small
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Comfrey
Symphytum officinale
MEDICINAL: A poultice of comfrey heals wounds, burns, sores, and bruises. It is a powerful remedy for coughs, ulcers, healing broken bones and sprains, and is used in treating asthma.
Comfrey flowers are small and subtle yet still manage to make an attractive display against the handsome dark green leaves.
Tuberous Comfrey (Symphytum tuberosum) is a large-leaf borage which spreads via rhizomes from its initial clump. It thrives in sun or part shade, & can be rather too aggressive if it finds conditions ideal.
A Warning on Comfrey. By Rick Parkhurst. 1981 #3, p 12
From the Editor's Mailbag. 1984 #4, pp 4-5
Rebuttal to Danger of Eating Comfrey. By W.A. Sinnock. 1982 #3, p 4
HIBISCUS CANNABINUS See Kenaf ...
Symphytum species (comfrey) can be described as a ground cover or an invasive weed. Used carefully, they can be very useful to cover awkward places in the garden.
Comfrey (Symphytum officinalis)
Common Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon)
Common boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
Common bugleweed, carpet bugle (Ajuga reptans)
Common cattail (Typha latifolia) ...
It is represented in Britain by bugloss (Echium) (fig. 1), comfrey (Symphytum), Myosotis, hounds-tongue (Cynoglossum) (fig. 2), and other genera, while borage (Borago officinalis) (fig. 3) occurs as a garden escape in waste ground.
The bruised leaves, applied externally, have been used in the same manner as Violet leaves (also Celandine, Clover and Comfrey), to dispel tumours suspected to be of a cancerous nature.
Clover, Chive, Garlic, Leek, Nasturtium, Southernwood, Daffodils, Comfrey
Cedar because of apple-cedar rust.
Walnut because its roots produce growth inhibitors that apple trees are sensitive to[2] ...
It contains allantoin, a chemical which actually does promote new cell growth, and is found in commercial products for that purpose. Some recent studies have shown that taken internally, comfrey may cause liver damage and cancer.
It is then stirred for 10 minutes and the pan is left aside until the next day when it gets heated again and its content is passed through a fine sieve and into a jar. Excellent results are also obtained from mixing marigold lotion with comfrey ...
be broken down by soil organisms before the nutrients within them are released for plant use. Examples of organic fertilisers include: seaweed, hoof & horn, dried blood, fish blood & bone, bone meal, poultry manure pellets and liquid comfrey ...
 See also: May, Green, Symphytum, Medic, Pepper
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