Aconitum Carmichaelii
''Aconitum carmichaelii'' is a species of flowering plant of the genus ''Aconitum'', family Ranunculaceae. It is native to East Asia and eastern Russia. It is commonly known as Chinese aconite, Carmichael's monkshood or Chinese wolfsbane. In Mandarin Chinese, it is known as ''fùzǐ'' (; meaning daughter root, or lateral root) and as ''wūtóu'' (; lit. "black head", referring to tuberous mother root, or root tuber) and in Japanese as ''torikabuto'' (; meaning crown, which imitate phenix, worn during Kagura dance). Description Growing to tall by wide, it is an erect perennial, with 3- to 5-lobed ovate, leathery leaves. Dense panicles of blue flowers are produced in late summer and autumn. It is valued as a garden plant, and numerous cultivars have been developed, of which 'Arendsii' and 'Kelmscott' (Wilsonii Group) have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Biological effects All parts of this plant are extremely toxic, and it has historically ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Jean Odon Debeaux
Jean Odon Debeaux (4 August 1826, Agen – 20 February 1910, Toulouse) was a French military pharmacist, botanist and malacologist. In 1854 he qualified as a pharmacist in Paris, then joined the French Army, and from 1854 to 1859 was stationed in Algeria (Algiers, Boghar and in the region of Kabylie). Later on, he participated in a military expedition to China (1860–62), on which he collected botanical and malacological specimens on stops in the Canary Islands and South Africa. Afterwards, he was stationed in Corsica (1870) and Perpignan (1872),JSTOR Global Plants
Debeaux, Jean-Odon (1826-1910) later returning to Algeria, where he worked as chief pharmacist at the hospital in