#reptan

[los-plantalones]

[ugletamaki]

Next up was a plant - Ajuga reptans ~

That's how elegant she is.

[yellowgnomeboots]

Ajuga reptans - Bugleweed

I've had this plant in the difficult garden* for a few years but this year it seems to be doing really well. It had been spreading vigourously but didn't look as healthy as it does right now. I did wonder whether it might be spreading too much and I'd need to pull it out, but it seems to be reaching a balance.

*no drainage in winter, dry in summer, between a hedge and a concrete path

Ajuga reptans - Bugleweed - European native - check status in other areas because its spreading nature and general survivability make it a good candidate for becoming a pest.

[silent-hill-radio-repairs]

A bit more from the shooting range!

[dame-de-pique]

Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen - Ranunculus reptans 3/7-11

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Root

beautiful words with "root" for your next poem/story

Abscessroot - a perennial herb (Polemonium reptans) of the eastern U.S. with compound leaves and blue flowers

Birthroot - any of several trilliums with astringent roots used in folk medicine

Bitterroot - a succulent herb (Lewisia rediviva) of the purslane family that grows in western North America and has starchy roots and pink or white flowers

Enroot - establish, implant

Eyeroot - goldenseal i.e., a perennial North American herb (Hydrastis canadensis) of the buttercup family with large leaves and a thick knotted yellow rhizome sometimes used medicinally; iceroot

Irisroot - orrisroot i.e., the fragrant rootstock of any of three European irises (Iris florentina, I. germanica, and I. pallida) used especially in perfumery

Liferoot - golden ragwort i.e., a ragwort (Senecio aureus synonym Packera aurea) of the U.S. having basal cordate leaves, lyrate or clasping stem leaves, and an open cluster of yellow-rayed flowers

Redroot - a perennial herb (Lachnanthes caroliniana synonym L. tinctoria) of the eastern U.S. whose red root is the source of a dye

Sweetroot - licorice

Unroot - to tear up by the roots; eradicate, uproot

Whiteroot - butterfly weed; windroot

Yellowroot - any of several plants with yellow roots

If any of these words inspire your writing, do tag me or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!

More: Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 27 August 2024

The entrance to Inverness Botanic Garden has recently been landscaped with a great plant association of Liatris spicata (button snakewort, dense blazing star, Kansas gayfeather) and Liatris spicata 'Alba' with a groundcover, beneath these upright perennials, of Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow' (bugle). Both species grow best in moist but well–drained soil with Liatris spicata needing a sunny location.

Jill Raggett

[flowerishness]

What's blooming in the garden today? Well maybe it's time for another walk down the garden path. As regular visitors know, the house is up for sale and by next summer I expect to have a planter box on a balcony, and maybe a couple of houseplants for company. This is day three of my garden tour. I hope you're enjoying it. I know I am.

And I'm not done yet...

In order of appearance:

Rhododendron hybrida

Ajuga reptans (bugleweed)

 Symphytum x uplandicum (Russian comfrey)

Tellima grandiflora (fringecups)

Hyacinthoides non-scripta (common bluebell)

Rosa rugosa (rugosa rose)

Convallaria majalis (lily-of-the-valley)

[leonzje]

MY FAV BUGS SINCE

im going on a bug related vacation for school soon!!! simple list n picture below since im not too knowledgeable on them!!

picture by STEVE SMITH - ghost praying mantis or phyllocrania paradoxa

picture by REPTANICALS

white ducky isopods or cubaris sp.

picture by FRED FIRST

hickory horned devil caterpillar or citheronia regalis

picture by WARUT SIRIWUT

first amphibious centipede or S.cataracta

[fatehbaz]

Hmm:

Regarding tenzu tablets:

Caption reads: "Ottoman drugs containing rhubarb, cinnamon, mastic gum, Chinese tumeric, amber, musk, balm of Gilead, Meccan myrrh, white pepper, opium, rose water, cast into moulds & inscribed with healing incantations, 16C". Credited with a link to Yasmine Seale, on social media.

Original linked source doesn't mention where these particular tablets/molds were created, kept, displayed, etc. But I wanted to learn more and found a kinda recent summary of tenzu which was published by Nil Sarı (head of History of Medicine and Ethics Department at Istanbul University's Cerrahpasha medical school, president of Health History and Museology Association), which was presented at a conference in 2016:

Nil Sarı. "The Special Pharmaceutical Tablet “Tenzu” in Ottoman Medicine.” 7th International Congress for History of Islamic Medicine, October 24-28, Fez, Morocco, 2016: 24-28.

An excerpt of the text:

In Ottoman Turkish tenzu (tensuh) means "very rare beautiful thing" or "a box containing a variety of fragrances." Tenzu was also said to be the name of a place in Hitay (Eastern Turkistan / Xinjiang) where a medicinal clay - the main ingredient of the tablet tenzu - was imported from. Tenzu was a kind of theriac said to be effective against various ailments. Different tenzu prescriptions are noted in the texts [...] of several medical manuscripts of the 17th and 18th centuries. These tenzu prescriptions were described by various physicians, e.g. the head physicians Salih bin Nasrullah and Nuh Efendi as well as Hayatizade Mustafa Feyzi and Shaban Shifai who were palace physicians of the period. The special pharmaceutical tablet/pastille named "tenzu kursu" was formed in various shapes, i.e. oval, round, or rectangular. A measured amount of the drug preparation was compressed and shaped in a special brass mold named "tenzu kalibi" in Turkish. [...]

Prayers and ornamentations are engraved on the metal molds [...]. The expressions Deva al kulub (Drug for the heart) and Shifa al marghoob (The desired, yearned healing) inscribed on molds reinforce spirituality. [...] Inscriptions around the center of the other flower shaped pattern are Ferd, Hayy, Kayyum and feehi shifaun lin-naas (wherein is healing for mankind, Surah an-Nahl, verse 69). [...] Al-Hayy and Al-Qayyum are often used together. Al-Hayy signifies "ever-lasting life", and Al-Qayyum "self-existing life". [...] Sihhat bad (Have a good health) and Afiyet bad (Have a good appetite) are inscribed. [...] A. Suheyl Unver and Hayri Sozen published several tenzu prescriptions in their book "Turk Farmakaloji Tarihi I.", in 1960. [...] Tenzu prescriptions are found in several medical manuscripts kept in the Topkapi Palace Library, Suleymaniye Library and Istanbul University Rare Books Library.

Clay is a main ingredient [...]. Tiyn-i Tenzu is an unknown red colored clay. However, Terra Sigillata (Tiyn-i mahtum / muhurlu toprak) and Armenian Clay (Kil ermeni) are found in the prescriptions. [...] There are also animal products in the compositions, i.e. ambergris (amber), bezoar (badzehr), kermes (kirmiz), musk (misk), raw silk (harir-i ham / ham ipek), [...] and burnt deer antler (yanmisgeyik boynuzu). There are a wide variety of herbal drugs in the compositions, i.e. Acorus calamus [...], Aloe vera (Sabir), [...] Anchusa offinalis (Lisan-i sevr cicegi), Artemisia absinthium [...], Bambusa arundinaceae [...], Chenopodium album [...], Cinnamon (Darcin), Citrus aurantium [...], Crocus sativus (Za'feran), Embellia ribes [...], Gummi mastix [...], Heliotropium arborsecens [...], Nardustachys jatamansi [...], Potentilla reptans [...], Pterocarpus santalinus [...], Red rose/Rosa gallica [...], Rheum officinale (Ravend), Rumez acetosellaseed [...], Ruta graveolens (Keci Sadefi/Sedef Otu), Terminalia citrina [...], Terminalia chebula [...], Tormentilla (Tormentila).

Shaping and storage of these drugs are explained alongside some of the tenzu prescriptions. According to a recipe, all ingredients are beaten very thin on a porphyry (onyx marble) [...]. Each dose wrapped in gold foil is anointed an amount of almond oil. It is pressed into the mold, dried in the shade and stored in wood boxes. [...] Drugs in tablet form was an old tradition. In general, the preparation is poured onto a tray. [...] After dried in the shade, orange leaves are put between them. Stored in colored glass containers, they're reused when needed, squashed with water and drunk as a syrup. Also, flat pills made of a drachma weight were retained on the tongue in the mouth [...]. Although drugs in tablet form were used throughout Ottoman history either as a pastille or to be converted into syrup, the tenzu tablet molds were designed for the Ottoman sultans and members of the dynasty to make special tablets decorated with calligraphy [...].

[End of excerpt.]

All of these images are cropped screenshots of the PDF scan of the printed "conference works"; the PDF was uploaded online by Nil Sarı.

[seabeck]

Lepidozia reptans

[scooby-doo-exploration]

anastasiealamartine - Amethyst, Jade, Fluorite, Grape Chalcedony and Ajuga Reptans

TAG themes on ‘Archive’  https://scooby-doo-exploration.tumblr.com/archive

[kamas-corner]

A batallas de amor campo de plumas

Ningún vestigio tan inconsolable como el que deja un cuerpo entre las sábanas y más cuando la lasitud de la memoria ocupa un espacio mayor del que razonablemente le corresponde.

Linda el amanecer con la almohada y algo jadea cerca, acaso un último estertor adherido a la carne, la otra vez adversaria emanación del tedio estacionándose entre los utensilios de la noche.

Despierta, ya es de día, mira los restos del naufragio bruscamente esparcidos en la vidriosa linde del insomnio.

Sólo es un pacto a veces, una tregua ungida de sudor, la extenuante reconstrucción del sitio donde estuvo asediado el taciturno material del deseo.

Rastros hostiles reptan entre un cúmulo de trofeos y escorias, amortiguan la inerme acometida de los cuerpos. A batallas de amor campo de plumas.

-José Manuel Caballero Bonald

[francescointoppa]

Iva comune (Ajuga reptans L., Lamiaceae)

[internetdruid]

🌱 ohoho plant time (also hope you're having a good day!)

Creeping Avens/Geum reptans

[todo-por-nada]

Ecos.

Quiero ahogarte con palabras bonitas. Quiero explicarte todo lo que ha florecido de ti en mi desde entonces. Y si cierro los ojos pienso en el erotismo de tu boca y en el calor de tus manos. Se convulsionan todos mis sentidos, que buscando van entre los ecos de otros días donde permanece tu aroma, tu voz, tu mirada, la armonía de tu nombre. Los ecos se transforman y reptan sigilosos, saltando mis pasos como gotas de lluvia reventadas contra la piedra. Aquí no hay más que una temerosa y triste esperanza...y allá...Dios sabrá que hay a la distancia.

M.C.