[Sca-cooks] Fwd: re night flowering herbs/flowers

[Marcus Loidolt]

Benedicte,
   Some one on one of these lists asked about night blooming flowers in period...
  Below is a list of such plants as mentioned in various period herbals...thanks to Mistress Leanore deVertabors, OP, and Dame Megan de Grinstead, OL. Neither of them are on these two lists..."too busy digging in the dirt to sit inside and type!!" from Dame Megan, dirt laurel....
   
  Abot Johann von Metten, poultry laurel....

Elliepeli at aol.com wrote:
  From: Elliepeli at aol.com
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:51:36 EDT
Subject: re night flowering herbs/flowers
To: mjloidolt at yahoo.com

    Night flowering plants are pollinated primarily by a moth,Most of the night flowers are scented
   Evening Primrose  (Oenothera bicennis)
  Goat Leaf Honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifo;ium )
  White Dittany(Dictammus albus)
  Woodruff(Galium ordoratum)
  Silverleaf Artimesia(Atimesia argentum)
  Eryngos(Eryngium maritimum)
   
  Santolina(also called Cotton Lavender---Santolinia chaecyparissus
  Tobacco(Nictotinea )This is period only for 16th century)
   Clary Sage (Salvia Sclarea) 
   
   
  Garland .Sarah,The Herb Garden,New York Botanical Garden Institute, New York,1984
  ISBN 014046.690 8    see pgs 74-75           
   
   
  Wells,Diana 100 Flowers and how they got their names,Past Times,Workman.New  York,1997,ISBN 1-56512-138-4              pgs 93,209-210
   
   
  Grieve,Margaret-A Modern Herbal (Dover Books,reprint1971 TSBN 0-486-22798-7
  good info on cultivation-use only as jumping off point-uses very modern discriptions Linnean classifications-Where she quotes Pliny,Gerad or Culpepper-go to them not the Grieve summary
   
   
   
  Hope this helps                 Ellie



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