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Symphytum officinale - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Symphytum officinale - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Symphytum officinale - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Symphytum officinale - Upper surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper surface of leaf; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Symphytum officinale - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Symphytum officinale - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1268
Date of entry: 17.04.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common comfrey

German: Echter Beinwell

Mandarin: 聚合草 (ju he cao)

Portuguese: Confrei

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2593)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2490)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2105)

      Order: Solanales (94)

        Family: Solanaceae (48)(family description)

          Genus: Symphytum (1)

            Epithet: officinale L. (6)

Synonym: Symphytum uliginosum Kern.

officinale => of practical use to man; official species in commerce, especially for medicinal purposes

uliginosum => growing in swamps or marshes

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, white

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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