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shamey flower
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shamey flower

Opopanax

Opopanax, also known as opobalsam, refers to a number of gum resins (natural substances that are a mixture of water-soluble gums and alcohol-soluble resins) traditionally considered to have medicinal properties. Pliny (Historia Naturalis) and Dioscorides (De Materia Medica) described various kinds with uncertain identifications, which have been distinguished as:

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Hercules All-heal

speciesOpopanax chironium

Sweet Myrrh

speciesOpopanax hispidus

Opopanax persicus

speciesOpopanax persicus

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Where it lives

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

shamey flower in Ortus sanitatis

Ortus sanitatis

1491 · p.295

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 129875.