Archive for April de 2008
Sorry about the lags, folks
Posted by: The Lorax in: ● April 29, 2008
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I’ve been getting ready for a major trip, so please excuse the bulk updating. I’ll be back in a week or so with plenty of new plants from distant and distinct biomes.
Happy Worker’s Day, everyone.
Verbena spp - Vervain
Posted by: The Lorax in: ● April 29, 2008
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Low-growing Verbena, growing near Malchingui, Pichincha Province. I’m not sure which of the hundreds of species this is; it was groing very close to the ground and had a pleasant, lemony smell. This Verbena was on a dry, sandy, windswept mesa at abot 2800 meters above sea level.
Verbena flowers make a lovely, soothing herbal tea, and oil of Verbena is useful to induce lactation and calm nerves. The oil of common Verbena is considered inferior to that of Lemon Verbena in the perfume trade.
If anyone out there knows this Verbena, please pass that knowledge along to me!
