GENTIAN
GENTIAN. AKA. CLOSED BOTTLE GENTIAN
GENESIS NAME: Gentiana affinis
DISTRIBUTION: AZ, CA, CO, ID, MN, MT, ND, NM, NV, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY. Canada...sk
SEASON: August thu September
MEDICAL USE: Gentian is an herb. The root of the plant and, less commonly, the bark are used to make medicine. Gentian is used for digestion problems such as loss of appetite, bloating, diarrhea, and heartburn. It is also used for fever and to prevent muscle spasms
.POISONOUS: NO
EDIBILITY: It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse
FEATURES: It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse.
LEAVES: linear-lanceolate to lance-ovate 2.5-4 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, puberulent on margins and lower surface of midrib
FRUITS: It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse.
DISTRIBUTION: AZ, CA, CO, ID, MN, MT, ND, NM, NV, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY. Canada...sk
SEASON: August thu September
MEDICAL USE: Gentian is an herb. The root of the plant and, less commonly, the bark are used to make medicine. Gentian is used for digestion problems such as loss of appetite, bloating, diarrhea, and heartburn. It is also used for fever and to prevent muscle spasms
.POISONOUS: NO
EDIBILITY: It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse
FEATURES: It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse.
LEAVES: linear-lanceolate to lance-ovate 2.5-4 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, puberulent on margins and lower surface of midrib
FRUITS: It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse.
DESCRIPTION:
gentian, (genus Gentiana), any of about 400 species of annual or perennial (rarely biennial) flowering plants of the family Gentianaceae distributed worldwide in temperate and alpine regions, especially in Europe and Asia, North and South America, and New Zealand. They are especially a notable feature of mountain regions, where the moisture-loving plants have access to underground water in summer and snow cover in winter. Gentian flowers are typically blue (hence “gentian blue”) or purplish blue but may be purple, violet, mauve, yellow, white, or even red; the four or five petals are usually united into a trumpet, funnel, or bell shape. The flowers have been used in the making of dyes, especially Gentiana pneumonanthe, a source of blue dye. The tough fibrous roots were once used herbally for putative alimentary cures, and the name gentian derives from Gentius, king of ancient Illyria and alleged discoverer of the plant’s medicinal value. Gentiana lutea, the yellow gentian, is found in Europe and western Asia and is the source of a flavouring in liqueurs.
Other species, such as the fringed gentians, formerly included in Gentiana, are now referred to as Gentianella (about 125 species) and Gentianopsis (about 15 species). The gentian family, Gentianaceae, includes 87 genera and nearly 1,700 species.
It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse.
Gentiana affinis is a perennial forb with stems 20-40 cm (7.9-15.7 in.) tall. The leaves are sessile, oblong to ovate in shape, 2-7 cm (0.8-2.8 in.) long and 0.5-2 cm (0.3-0.8 in.) wide, and the margins are minutely scabrous. The flowers are bright blue and have 5 petals; they are 2.5-4 cm (1.0-1.6 in.) long and clustered at the base of the upper leaves. The petals of the elongate, funnel-shaped corolla are united for most of their length by plaited or folded membranes, with the free triangular portion of each petal curving outward from the mouth of the corolla tube. The small, sharply pointed ends of the pleats in the sinuses between the spreading corolla lobes impart a slightly frilled look to the flower.
Other species, such as the fringed gentians, formerly included in Gentiana, are now referred to as Gentianella (about 125 species) and Gentianopsis (about 15 species). The gentian family, Gentianaceae, includes 87 genera and nearly 1,700 species.
It also has a peppery taste, but when cooked it turns mildly sweet and almondy. The plants grow from edible tubers, which can swell to the size of an egg. ... Cook grows Gentian sage from seed, which he starts every year in the greenhouse.
Gentiana affinis is a perennial forb with stems 20-40 cm (7.9-15.7 in.) tall. The leaves are sessile, oblong to ovate in shape, 2-7 cm (0.8-2.8 in.) long and 0.5-2 cm (0.3-0.8 in.) wide, and the margins are minutely scabrous. The flowers are bright blue and have 5 petals; they are 2.5-4 cm (1.0-1.6 in.) long and clustered at the base of the upper leaves. The petals of the elongate, funnel-shaped corolla are united for most of their length by plaited or folded membranes, with the free triangular portion of each petal curving outward from the mouth of the corolla tube. The small, sharply pointed ends of the pleats in the sinuses between the spreading corolla lobes impart a slightly frilled look to the flower.
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