It can also be given after surgical operations, especially those involving bone and cartilage. Symphyo in Greek is to make whole, to heal.Ĭomfrey is always the herb of choice for both internal and external use when it comes to fractures and sprains. The name is from the Latin confervere, ‘to grow together, to consolidate’ that, via Medieval French, became ‘conforye’ by the 15th century. It was during the 1980s that work moved away from the medicinal possibilities for comfrey, and focused on its fertility benefits”. Until the end of the 1972, this plant formed an important focus of the organisation with members looking into the nutritional and health qualities in particular, with a view also to seeing whether it could contribute to food security in the UK and abroad. He had the intention of researching comfrey’s full potential, as he saw it as a way to ‘feed the world’. After writing a book entitled ‘Russian Comfrey’ in 1953, Hills went onto set up HDRA, named in honour of Doubleday, and based at Bocking in Essex. Yet over 60 years later, interest in its medicinal value and use as a high protein fodder crop for livestock intrigued Lawrence Hills. Petersburg in the 19th century with the intention of turning it into a glue for stamps. “Henry Doubleday, a smallholder and inventor from Essex, originally imported Russian Comfrey from St. With the most commonly sold variety, which carries forth the legacy in its name, Bocking 14, we are privileged nowadays to have a strain which boast a much higher nutrient content than the common comfrey growing wild in the UK and which has many more benefits besides.Ĭomfrey’s place in Garden Organic’s history Its foliage can be harvested and used either as a compost accelerator or made into the potent natural fertilizer, ‘comfrey tea’, which is especially beneficial for hungry fruits and flowers.” There was an article on comfrey in the latest edition of their membership magazine and I would like to share some of it with you:Īs Kim Stoddart wrote:- “How many gardeners nowadays have comfrey growing somewhere on their plot? I’d wager rather a lot. The ‘Garden Organic’ movement, has had its 60 years anniversary and comfrey is very much part of their history. Garden Organic and history of Comfrey there: Mainly spread vegetatively by cutting machinery. It continues to extend its range away from roads along footpaths, tracks and riverside paths. It forms clonal patches competing with tall grass and herbage, seldom with associated seedling plants. S. × uplandicum or Russian Comfrey ( picture by Matt Summers) S. × uplandicum ( Symphytum asperum × officinale) or Russian ComfreyĪ very tall and robust perennial herb of moist, fertile soils, long established on woodland margins, hedgebanks, road verges, tracks, waste ground, railway embankments, stream- and ditch-banks also a relic of cultivation on allotments and in old gardens. It produces abundant seedling plants around clonal patches, but, unlike S. × uplandicum, is probably not resistant to frequent mowing. asperum or Rough Comfrey ( by Franz Xaver in Wikipedia)Ī very tall comfrey, morphologically similar to S. × uplandicum and, like that species, able to compete with tussocky grasses and rank vegetation, but occurring only very occasionally on road verges, tracksides and in churchyards. The identification of S. officinale requires not only the long wings on the stem, but also very narrow upper stem leaves with a broad (1–2 cm) leaf decurrence at the stem junction and an absence of blue or violet coloration in the flowers. It is also an occasional escape from cultivation on waste ground and roadsides. 1891, Public Domain, Wikipedia) Symphytum officinale or Common ComfreyĪ tall perennial herb of riverbanks, streamsides and associated ditches, fens and marshes. Illustration of Symphytum officinale or Common Comfrey ( by Amédée Masclef – Atlas des plantes de France. The ones listes in the Plant Atlas can be found below. Stace describes 11 species/hybrids as well as subspecies. Symphytum tuberosum or Tuberous Comfrey.Symphytum grandiflorum or Creeping Comfrey The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.S. × uplandicum or Russian Comfrey ( Symphytum asperum × officinale) Garden Organic and history of Comfrey there If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Liste de Tracheophyta de Bosnie-Herzégovine.Liste der Gefäßpflanzen in Bosnien und Herzegowina.
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