This plant grows in deciduous forests throughout Italy and in the eastern Mediterranean region. It is very similar to the previous plant but is herbaceous in appearance. Flowers and then small red fruit grow near tongue-like appendages in the centre, hence the Latin name hypoglossum, meaning beneath the tongue, and its other common name horse tongue. [...]
Ramón Morales Valverde Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Extract from the commentary volume of Mattioli's Dioscorides illustrated by Cibo)
Spineless butcher’s-broom (Ruscus hypoglossum), f. 24r
This plant grows in deciduous forests throughout Italy and in the eastern Mediterranean region. It is very similar to the previous plant but is herbaceous in appearance. Flowers and then small red fruit grow near tongue-like appendages in the centre, hence the Latin name hypoglossum, meaning beneath the tongue, and its other common name horse tongue. [...]
Ramón Morales Valverde Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Extract from the commentary volume of Mattioli's Dioscorides illustrated by Cibo)
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