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Slo.: tauentroa - syn: Centaurium umbellatum Gilib., Centaurium minus Moench, Erythraea centaurium - Habitat: near sea shore, flat terrain, partly grassland; calcareous, skeletal, humid ground; full sun; exposed to direct rain; elevation 10 m (33 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 13-15 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Comment: This originally European southern-temperate plant is widely naturalized also outside its native range. It frequently grows on disturbed places and on a wide range of habitats like chalk and limestone grassland, open woodland and scrub, dry grassland, quarries, spoil-heaps and road sides. It is a well known, thousand years old medical plant and one of the most bitter herbs at all. It strengthens digestive function by increasing stomach secretions. The whole herb is appetizer, aromatic, bitter, cholagogue, diaphoretic, emetic, febrifuge, hepatic, stomachic and tonic. However, there are no scientific clinical studies made on people about it. Nevertheless, its effectiveness on (at least) digestion is evident even without them. Ref.: (1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 6. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 700. (3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 506. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 740. (5) http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/202950/0
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Slo.: tauentroa - syn: Centaurium umbellatum Gilib., Centaurium minus Moench, Erythraea centaurium - Habitat: near sea shore, flat terrain, partly grassland; calcareous, skeletal, humid ground; full sun; exposed to direct rain; elevation 10 m (33 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 13-15 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Comment: This originally European southern-temperate plant is widely naturalized also outside its native range. It frequently grows on disturbed places and on a wide range of habitats like chalk and limestone grassland, open woodland and scrub, dry grassland, quarries, spoil-heaps and road sides. It is a well known, thousand years old medical plant and one of the most bitter herbs at all. It strengthens digestive function by increasing stomach secretions. The whole herb is appetizer, aromatic, bitter, cholagogue, diaphoretic, emetic, febrifuge, hepatic, stomachic and tonic. However, there are no scientific clinical studies made on people about it. Nevertheless, its effectiveness on (at least) digestion is evident even without them. Ref.: (1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 6. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 700. (3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 506. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 740. (5) http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/202950/0
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Slo.: tauentroa - syn: Centaurium umbellatum Gilib., Centaurium minus Moench, Erythraea centaurium - Habitat: near sea shore, flat terrain, partly grassland; calcareous, skeletal, humid ground; full sun; exposed to direct rain; elevation 10 m (33 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 13-15 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Comment: This originally European southern-temperate plant is widely naturalized also outside its native range. It frequently grows on disturbed places and on a wide range of habitats like chalk and limestone grassland, open woodland and scrub, dry grassland, quarries, spoil-heaps and road sides. It is a well known, thousand years old medical plant and one of the most bitter herbs at all. It strengthens digestive function by increasing stomach secretions. The whole herb is appetizer, aromatic, bitter, cholagogue, diaphoretic, emetic, febrifuge, hepatic, stomachic and tonic. However, there are no scientific clinical studies made on people about it. Nevertheless, its effectiveness on (at least) digestion is evident even without them. Ref.: (1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 6. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 700. (3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 506. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 740. (5) http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/202950/0
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1998 California Academy of Sciences
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Centaurium erythraea is a widespread Mediterranean perennial. In Israel it is rather rare, occurring only on soft chalk.
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A nice coastal annual, its flowers range from yellow to pinkish.
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Centaurium tenuiflorum is a common Mediterranean annual.
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