Looking at Bryophyllum you can see how it got the nick-name mother of thousands.
Each stalk bears teeny-tiny baby plantlets - little clones of the mama - all along the edges of the serrated leaves. They perch, like swallows on a phone line, ready to drop off and grow up elsewhere.
They are speedy growers, and rapidly develop a root system, thus becoming independent of the mother plant very quickly.
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| Look at those babies! Picture from Bryophyllum.weebly.com |
Luckily she's got plenty more baby plants to occupy her, so no empty nest syndrome here.
This squishy fleshy plant is a reservoir of water covered in a shiny wax, which helps to prevent evaporation. Native to madagascar and Calcutta, it's a heat-tolerant plant, for sure, and copes well with drought. Luckily.
Traditionally, it's taken internally for diarrhea and fever, but an ointment made from the expressed juice of the leaves is used externally for treatment of ulcers, abscesses, burns or poorly healing wounds.
This squishy fleshy plant is a reservoir of water covered in a shiny wax, which helps to prevent evaporation. Native to madagascar and Calcutta, it's a heat-tolerant plant, for sure, and copes well with drought. Luckily.
Traditionally, it's taken internally for diarrhea and fever, but an ointment made from the expressed juice of the leaves is used externally for treatment of ulcers, abscesses, burns or poorly healing wounds.
This ointment has haemostatic, anti-inflammatory and wound-healing actions. You really wanted to know that, didn't you?
Anyway. Handy. Literally, as this ingredient is used in Dr.Hauschka Hydrating Hand Cream, as well as
- Regenerating Serum
- Regenerating Day Cream
- Soothing Intensive Treatment
- Renewing Night Conditioner
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| Goethe from Allmusic.com |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - he of Heidenröslein and Faust fame - was a big fan.
Not of Dr Hauschka, which wasn't around back then, but of the plant; he often sent it to his (many) lady-friends.
Saying it with flowers? I don't really want to think what he was implying.
I've never been too sure about Heidenröslein lyrics either, they always struck me as a bit #metoo, although the music is lovely, of course.
But did Schubert pinch it from Wolfie? It's so similar to Könnte jeder brave Mann from The Magic Flute.
Just me again, is it? Have a listen and tell me I'm wrong!
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