GREATER PLANTAIN Leaf Cut

GREATER PLANTAIN LEAF, Botanical name: Plantago major is famous Natural Herbs for Herbal Treatment in Traditional medicine, Alternative medicine and Naturopathy. Modern medicine now tends to use the active ingredients of plants rather than the whole plants.

Botanical name:  Plantago major

Common Names:    Broad-leaved Plantain. Ripple Grass. Waybread. Slan-lus. Waybroad. Snakeweed. Cuckoos Bread. Englishmans Foot. White Mans Foot.

Habitat:     Found in open habitats and typically occurs on tracks and paths subject to trampling, disturbed roadsides, field edges, and grasslands. The subspeciesintermedia is usually found in saline habitats, such as the upper sections of saltmarsh and close to coastal creeks.

Plant Description:    This is a very dark green, slender perennial, growing much taller than P. major. Its leaf-blades rarely reach an inch in breadth, are three to five ribbed, gradually narrowed into the petioles, which are often more than a foot long.
The flowerstalks are often more than 2 feet long, terminating in cylindrical blunt, dense spikes, 1/2 to 3 or 4 inches long and 1/3 to 1/2 inch thick.
It has the same chemical constituents as P. major. When this Plantain grows amongst the tall grasses of the meadow its leaves are longer, more erect and less harsh, than when we find it by the roadside, or on dry soil.
The leaves are often slightly hairy and have at times a silvery appearance from this cause, especially in the roadside specimens. The flower-stalks are longer than the leaves, furrowed and angular and thrown boldly up. The flowerhead varies a good deal in size and form, sometimes being much smaller and more globular than others.
The sepals are brown and paper-like in texture and give the head its peculiar rusty look. The corolla is very small and inconspicuous, tubed and having four spreading lobes.
The stamens, four in number, are the most noticeable feature, their slender white filaments and pale yellow anthers forming a conspicuous ring around the flower-head.

Plant Part/s Used Traditionally:     Root, leaves, flower-spikes.

Plant Part/s We are Selling in this Listing:  LEAF Cut
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Packaging:  Paper envelope PAP 22 / BS EN 26590-1 for nutritional purposes. Thus, the herbs are kept in the best possible way - no contact with light and moisture, with the ability to breathe through the paper.

Country of Origin:  BULGARIA

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