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Fam.: Boraginaceae / Borrage Fam.  

Synon.:  Symphytum officinale  L.  subsp. bohemicum  (F.W.SCHMIDT) CELAK.

Genus:  Symphytum  L.
 

Authors:
   F.W.SCHMIDT:  Franz Willibald Schmidt (1764 - 1796), botanist from Prague (Bohemia)
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
   CELAK.:  Ladislav Josef Celakovský (1834 - 1902), Czech botanist
 

Etymology:
   Symphytum:   symphyein = to grow together (medical plant)
   bohemicum:   from Bohemia
   officinale:   medicine
 

The Bohemian subspecies of the Comfrey has a more dainty figure and more narrow leaves than the usual subspecies. Its blossoms are always yellowish white, somewhat smaller but at the lower end more open than those of the usual Comfrey. However this taxon is not accepted by some authors.

 

Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 10.5.2011
Fig. 1:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 10.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 10.5.2011
Fig. 2:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 10.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Fig. 3:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Fig. 4:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Fig. 5:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Fig. 6:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Fig. 7:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Fig. 8:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Graben-Neudorf 9.5.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Hochheim am Main 15.9.2012
Fig. 9:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Hochheim am Main 15.9.2012
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Biebesheim 12.5.2018
Fig. 10:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Biebesheim 12.5.2018
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Biebesheim 12.5.2018
Fig. 11:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Biebesheim 12.5.2018
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Münzenberg 26.7.2014
Fig. 12:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Münzenberg 26.7.2014
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Münzenberg 26.7.2014
Fig. 13:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Münzenberg 26.7.2014
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Münzenberg 26.7.2014
Fig. 14:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Münzenberg 26.7.2014
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Pfalz, Speyer 3.5.2013
Fig. 15:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Pfalz, Speyer 3.5.2013
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Pfalz, Speyer 3.5.2013
Fig. 16:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Pfalz, Speyer 3.5.2013
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Oppenheim 9.8.2014
Fig. 17:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Oppenheim 9.8.2014
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, D Pfalz, Bellheim 23.7.2011
Fig. 18:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
D Pfalz, Bellheim 23.7.2011
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, A Carinthia, Koralpe 4.7.2023
Fig. 19:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
A Carinthia, Koralpe 4.7.2023
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, A Carinthia, Koralpe 4.7.2023
Fig. 20:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
A Carinthia, Koralpe 4.7.2023
Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey, A Carinthia, Koralpe 4.7.2023
Fig. 21:  Symphytum bohemicum / Bohemian Comfrey
A Carinthia, Koralpe 4.7.2023

 


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