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Rhamnus (plant), the Glossary

Rhamnus is a genus of about 140 accepted species of shrubs or small trees, commonly known as buckthorns, in the family Rhamnaceae.^[1]

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Black alder

Black alder is a common name for several plants and may refer to.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the legs and arms.

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Cornus

Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods or cornels, which can generally be distinguished by their blossoms, berries, and distinctive bark.

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Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and environmental conditions, though this is not always so.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Dioecy

Dioecy (adj. dioecious) is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Rhamnus (plant) and dioecy are dioecious plants.

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Drupe

In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pip (UK), pit (US), stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside.

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Dye

A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied.

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Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator)

Elizabeth Blackwell (born 23 April 1699 in Aberdeen –1758) was a botanical illustrator best known as drawer and engraver of the plates for A Curious Herbal, published between 1737 and 1739.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year.

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Frangula

Frangula is a genus of about 35 species of flowering shrubs or small trees, commonly known as alder buckthorn in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. Rhamnus (plant) and Frangula are Rhamnaceae genera.

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Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Hauraki Gulf

The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana is a coastal feature of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.

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Hippophae

Hippophae is the genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae. Rhamnus (plant) and Hippophae are dioecious plants.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Larva

A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.

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Laxative

Laxatives, purgatives, or aperients are substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements. Rhamnus (plant) and Laxative are Laxatives.

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Mallorca

Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mead

Mead, also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.

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Naturalisation (biology)

Naturalisation (or naturalization) is the ecological phenomenon through which a species, taxon, or population of exotic (as opposed to native) origin integrates into a given ecosystem, becoming capable of reproducing and growing in it, and proceeds to disseminate spontaneously.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Oat

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).

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Orjen

Orjen (Serbian Cyrillic: Орјен) is a transboundary Dinaric Mediterranean limestone mountain range, located between southernmost Bosnia and Herzegovina and southwestern Montenegro.

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Panicle

A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence.

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Persian berry

Persian berry, also called Avignon berry or French berry, is the fruit of the Avignon buckthorn (Rhamnus saxatilis), a species of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow (see Pinke).

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Pest (organism)

A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns.

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Plants of the World Online

Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Puccinia coronata

Puccinia coronata is a plant pathogen and causal agent of oat and barley crown rust.

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Raceme

A raceme or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers.

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Rhamnaceae

The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family.

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Rhamnus (plant)

Rhamnus is a genus of about 140 accepted species of shrubs or small trees, commonly known as buckthorns, in the family Rhamnaceae. Rhamnus (plant) and Rhamnus (plant) are Butterfly food plants, dioecious plants, Laxatives and Rhamnaceae genera.

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Rhamnus alaternus

Rhamnus alaternus is a species of flowering plant in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, known by the common names Italian buckthorn or Mediterranean buckthorn.

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Rhamnus alnifolia

Rhamnus alnifolia is a species of flowering plant in the buckthorn family known by the common names alderleaf buckthorn, or alder buckthorn.

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Rhamnus arguta

Rhamnus arguta, the sharp-tooth buckthorn, is a plant which has become naturalized in Indiana, USA.

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Rhamnus × intermedia is a hybrid species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae.

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Rhamnus cathartica

Rhamnus cathartica, the European buckthorn, common buckthorn, purging buckthorn, or just buckthorn, is a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Rhamnaceae. Rhamnus (plant) and Rhamnus cathartica are Butterfly food plants and dioecious plants.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhamnus_(plant)

Also known as Buck thorn, Buckthorn, Rhamnus (genus), Rhamnus oleoides.

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