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Scopolia Lutescens
''Scopolia'' is a genus of four species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae, native to Europe and Asia. The genus is named after Giovanni Scopoli (1723–88), a Tyrolean naturalist. The genus has a disjunct distribution, with two recognised species in Central to Eastern Europe, (including the Caucasus), and two species in East Asia. The two European species are: *''Scopolia carniolica'' Jacq. of Slovenia, Austria and the Carpathian Mountains *''Scopolia caucasica'' Kolesn. ex Kreyer of the Caucasus and the two Asiatic species are: *''Scopolia lutescens'' Y.N. Lee of Korea *''Scopolia japonica'' Maxim. of Japan The four species in the equally medicinal genus ''Anisodus'' *''Anisodus tanguticus'' (Maxim.) Pascher *''Anisodus luridus'' Link ex Spreng. *''Anisodus carniolicoides'' (C.Y.Wu & C.Chen) D'Arcy & Z.Y.Zhang *''Anisodus acutangulus'' C.Y.Wu & C.Chen have in the past been placed in the genus Scopolia, as has the monotypic genus Atropanthe with its single spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scopolia Carniolica
''Scopolia carniolica'', the European scopolia or henbane bell, is a poisonous plant belonging to the family Solanaceae. It has dark violet flowers on long hanging stems. It grows to in height. Its toxicity derives from its high levels of tropane alkaloids, particularly atropine. The concentration of atropine is highest in the roots. ''Scopolia carniolica'' grows on wet soils in beech forests of Southeastern Europe from lowlands to the mountainous zones, being native to a region stretching from the eastern Alps to the eastern Carpathians and also naturalised farther east in southwestern European Russia, Russia.Starý, František, Poisonous Plants (Hamlyn colour guides) – pub. Paul Hamlyn April, 1984, translated from the Czech by Olga Kuthanová. The rare form ''Scopolia carniolica'' f. ''hladnikiana'' (which differs from the common form in having a Corolla (flower), corolla that is greenish yellow, both inside and out) is native to Slovenia. ''Scopolia carniolica'' was first d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (2 February 1767 – 1 January 1851) was a German naturalist and botanist. Biography Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link (1738–1783), who taught him love of nature through collection of 'natural objects'. He studied medicine and natural sciences at the Hannoverschen Landesuniversität of Göttingen, and graduated as MD in 1789, promoting on his thesis ''"Flora der Felsgesteine rund um Göttingen"'' (Flora of the rocky beds around Göttingen). One of his teachers was the famous natural scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840). He became a private tutor (''Privatdozent'') in Göttingen. In 1792 he became the first professor of the new department of chemistry, zoology and botany at the University of Rostock. During his stay at Rostock, he became an early follower of the antiphlogistic theory of Lavoisier, teaching about the existence of oxygen instead of phlogiston. He was also a proponent of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisodus Luridus
''Anisodus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. Habitat It is native to China, Tibet, India, Bhutan, and Nepal. Medicinal uses One species, ''Anisodus tanguticus'' (), is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. Species *''Anisodus acutangulus'' C.Y.Wu & C.Chen **''Anisodus acutangulus'' var. acutangulus **''Anisodus acutangulus'' var. breviflorus C.Y.Wu & C.Chen *''Anisodus carniolicoides'' (C.Y.Wu & C.Chen) D'Arcy & Z.Y.Zhang *''Anisodus luridus'' Link ex Spreng. *''Anisodus tanguticus ''Anisodus tanguticus (ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ། in Tibetan) '' is a species of flowering plant belonging to tribe Hyoscyameae of subfamily Solanoideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is thus closely related to Hyoscyamus ...'' (Maxim.) Pascher Gallery File:Anisodus luridus (18347062049).jpg, ''Anisodous luridus'' in flower File:Anisodus luridus (18345559270).jpg, ''Anisodus luridus'' showing bud and interior of flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Pascher
Adolf Alois Pascher (31 May 1881 – 7 May 1945) was a Bohemian botanist and phycologist, notable for his descriptions of several new genera of algae, protists, and vascular plants. Biography Born in Stožec, Pascher was the son of a teacher, attended the Gymnasium (school), Gymnasium in Český Krumlov, Krummau and studied natural science at the German University in Prague, from which he received a doctorate in 1905, and graduated in 1909. In 1908, in partnership with Viktor Langhans, he co-founded a Hydrobiological Laboratory in Doksy, Hirschberg. In 1912 he became an associate professor of Herbalism and Cryptogam, Cryptogamic Botany, later being promoted to Full Professor in 1927. In 1933, he became Director of the Botanical Institutes and Botanical Gardens at the German University in Prague. He served as the editor for ''Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt'' for the last twenty years of his life. A German nationalist, he joined the Sudeten German Party in 1938, and followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisodus Tanguticus
''Anisodus tanguticus (ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ། in Tibetan) '' is a species of flowering plant belonging to tribe Hyoscyameae of subfamily Solanoideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is thus closely related to Hyoscyamus niger, Henbane and Atropa belladonna, Deadly Nightshade. Solanaceae is a plant family which includes many important agricultural plants such as the potato and the tomato. It is mostly found growing in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. ''A. tanguticus'' is collected and used mostly for its medicinal effects caused by the plant's biologically active nicotine and tropane alkaloids. It has a significant impact in China as one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. Scientific name The generic name ''Anisodus'' is a compound of the Ancient Greek, Greek words (, 'unequal') and (, 'tooth'), hence signifying 'having teeth of different lengths' – so called from the observation that certain species have calyces featuring lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisodus
''Anisodus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. Habitat It is native to China, Tibet, India, Bhutan, and Nepal. Medicinal uses One species, ''Anisodus tanguticus'' (), is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. Species *''Anisodus acutangulus'' C.Y.Wu & C.Chen **''Anisodus acutangulus'' var. acutangulus **''Anisodus acutangulus'' var. breviflorus C.Y.Wu & C.Chen *''Anisodus carniolicoides'' (C.Y.Wu & C.Chen) D'Arcy & Z.Y.Zhang *''Anisodus luridus'' Link ex Spreng. *''Anisodus tanguticus ''Anisodus tanguticus (ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ། in Tibetan) '' is a species of flowering plant belonging to tribe Hyoscyameae of subfamily Solanoideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is thus closely related to Hyoscyamus ...'' (Maxim.) Pascher Gallery File:Anisodus luridus (18347062049).jpg, ''Anisodous luridus'' in flower File:Anisodus luridus (18345559270).jpg, ''Anisodus luridus'' showing bud and interior of flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Maximovich
Carl Johann Maximovich (also Karl Ivanovich Maximovich, Russian: Карл Иванович Максимович; 23 November 1827 in Tula, Russia – 16 February 1891 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian botanist. Maximovich spent most of his life studying the flora of the countries he had visited in the Far East, and naming many new species. He worked at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Gardens from 1852 as curator of the herbarium collection, becoming Director in 1869. History Born a Baltic-German, his name at birth was Karl Ivanovich Maksimovich, but he changed it to the German version of his name for his scientific work.Japan’s botanical sunrise plant exploration around the Meiji Restoration Peter Barnes (originally published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine 18(1): ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic of Korea) comprising its southern half. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. The peninsula is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea). During the first half of the 1st millennium, Korea was divided between three states, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, together known as the Three Kingdoms of Korea. In the second half of the 1st millennium, Silla defeated and conquered Baekje and Goguryeo, leading to the "Unified Silla" period. Meanwhile, Balhae formed in the north, superseding former Goguryeo. Unified Silla eventually collapsed into three separate states due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yong No Lee
Yong may refer to: *Yong (), Chinese character for "permanence", unique in that the character contains eight strokes common to Chinese characters; see Eight Principles of Yong *Yong (), Chinese character for "use" or "function"; in Neo-Confucianism, often associated with Ti ("substance" or "body"); see Essence-Function *Yong () or Yongcheng, capital of Qin (state), located in modern Fengxiang County, founded in 677 BC and moved to Yueyang (櫟陽) in 383 BC *Yong, a variant of Yang (surname) (楊/杨) *Korean dragon (yong) *Yong River, Zhejiang Province, China *Yong River (Guangxi), Zhuang Autonomous Region, China *Yong, Ghana, a community in Tamale Metropolitan District in the Northern Region of Ghana People *Yong (Chinese name) *Yong (Korean name) *Yong (musician) (born 2000), Norwegian producer, singer, songwriter & YouTuber. *Yong Poovorawan (born 1950), Thai virologist. *Taeyong (born 1995), South Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter. See also *Jong (other) *Yung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgij Karlovich Kreyer
Georgij Karlowich Kreyer (russian: Гео́ргий Ка́рлович Кре́йер, Georgy Karlovich Kreyer) (November 26, 1887 – January 11, 1942) was a Russian and Soviet botanist and mycologist ( lichenologist) born in Saint Petersburg.''Science'', "Deaths or Russian Botanists'', 16 Feb 1945: Vol. 101, Issue 2616, pp. 166-167p. 167/ref> In academic publications, his name has been spelt variously Georgij Kalowic Kreyer, Georgij Karlowich Kreyer and (in Polish orthography) Georgij Karlowicz Kreyer. Between 1908 and 1910, he made extensive collections of lichens in the Mogilev Region of Belarus, between Orsha and Syanno, in the neighbourhood of the settlements of Smalyany, Bobromynichi (Vitebsk Region) and Selets. Examples of names published ''Atropa caucasica'' Kreyer. (species now demoted to ''Atropa belladonna ssp. caucasica'' (Kreyer) Avet.) Kreyer is commemorated in the name of the plant species '' Valeriana kreyeriana'' Sumnev. in the genus ''Valeriana''.Trav. Inst. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
