Health from the Lord’s Pharmacy, Tips and experiences with medicinal herbs, Ennsthaler Editore – Acta Plantarum – Flora of the Italian Regions. With these parts it is boiled, as for other vegetables, after which they are seasoned together with other herbs, in soups.Īccording to some sources, in the Sorrento peninsula and in the Lattari Mountains some housewives use comfrey as an ingredient of the ‘Menesta mmaretata’, a typical dish prepared for the Easter holidays.
Of the Symphytum bulbosum, young shoots and tender leaves are used for food. It is advisable to collect this plant, for these purposes, in the period from February to April, before the parts become too leathery and difficult to cook. The parts used are young shoots and tender leaves, boiled and seasoned or cooked, along with other herbs, in soups. However, it can be propagated starting from the seeds to be collected at the end of the vegetative period, to be conserved and sowed in autumn-winter.īulbous comfrey is a spontaneous plant that can be used for food Symphytum bulbosum is a spontaneous plant that grows in temperate Mediterranean climates on soils of different nature. Base with spiny teeth and 3 mm protruding strop. The fruits are microbasari (tetranucule) with (2) 4 mericarpi (nucule) monosperms, of 3-4 mm, with wrinkled surface, greenish brown when ripe, with a main crest that crosses them along the entire length and other secondary ones, more short. The flowering period is between February and May. The flowers are pale yellow in color, gathered in a dense top, corolla with inside lanceolate scales emerging from the tube.
The leaves are numerous, with an elliptical to lanceolate leaf, of a beautiful intense green and with basal petiolate the cauline leaves are smaller and progressively shorter petiole, the upper ones are sessile and running on the stem. Its habitat is that of deciduous deciduous forests, especially in clearings, and in hedges, on rather deep clayey soils, below the lower mountain belt, where it grows from sea level up to 1000 meters above sea level.īulbous comfrey is a perennial species of average size between 20 and 40 cm it is a somewhat hairy plant with an erect stem. The specific epithet bulbosum comes from bulbus bulb, onion: bulbous.īulbous comfrey is a species native to southeastern Europe and present in all regions of Italy. The term Symphytum comes from the Greek συν syn with, together and from φυτόν phytόn plant: plants that grow in groups. Schimp.) Is a herbaceous species belonging to the Boraginaceae family.įrom a systematic point of view, it belongs to the Eukaryota Domain, Plantae Kingdom, Magnoliophyta Division, Magnoliopsida Class, Lamiales Order, Boraginaceae Family and therefore to the Genus Symphytum and the S.
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