Thorny Bibernelle
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Thorny Bibernelle ( Sarcopoterium spinosum ) |
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The prickly burnet ( Poterium spinosum , Syn. : Sarcopoterium spinosum (L.) Spach) is a plant from the family of Rosaceae (Rosaceae). It is a stand-forming dwarf shrub of the east Mediterranean Phrygana vegetation.
description
The thorny Bibernelle grows as a richly branched, spherical dwarf shrub with a maximum height of 75 centimeters. The branches are woolly hairy and side branches form leafless thorns . The alternate arranged leaves are pinnate with 9 to 15 oblong, egg-shaped, hairy pinna leaflet .
The Dornige Bibernelle is monoecious . The flowers are arranged in spherical to elongated spikes . The lower flowers are male, the upper female. The inflorescence consists of only four, greenish, often white-edged sepals about 4 millimeters long; There are no petals . Male flowers have 10 to 30 stamens . Female flowers contain two carpels , which are enclosed berry-like by a tubular to narrow cup-shaped flower cup . This becomes red and fleshy when the fruit is ripe.
The flowering period extends from February to April.
distribution
The thorny Bibernelle grows in the eastern Mediterranean. Their distribution area extends over Italy , Albania , Croatia , Greece including Crete and the east Aegean islands, Cyprus , Lebanon , Jordan and Israel .
Cultural meaning and use
According to Ecclesiastes 7: 6, the shrub was used as fuel. He compares the ephemeral laughter of fools with the crackling of burning thorns under the saucepan.
It is traditionally used as a hedge plant, to build fences and as tinder . In traditional Arabic medicine, it is said to alleviate the symptoms of diabetes mellitus and various pains. In laboratory tests, extracts from the thorny beaver cell showed an insulin- like effect on cell cultures.
swell
- Ralf Jahn, Peter Schönfelder: Excursion flora for Crete . With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0 , p. 136 .
- Herbarium entry from the University of Reading.
- Entry on the Flora of Israel Online.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tovit Rosenzweig, Guila Abitbol, Dvir Taler: Evaluating the anti-diabetic effects of Sarcopoterium spinosum extracts in vitro . In: Israel Journal of Plant Sciences . tape 55 , no. 1 , 2007, p. 103-109 , doi : 10.1560 / IJPS.55.1.103 .
