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baby - April 19, 2006, 01:26
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i would like to know more about gentian root.its cultivation,collection.different products available etc.
ZooScape Moderator - April 19, 2006, 09:58
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Gentian Root is long and thick, generally about a foot long and an inch in diameter, but sometimes even a yard or more long and 2 inches in diameter, of a yellowish-brown color and a very bitter taste. The stem grows 3 or 4 feet high or more, with a pair of leaves opposite to one another, at each joint. The lowest leaves have short foot-stalks, but the upper ones are stalkless, their bases almost embracing the stem. They are yellowish-green in color, oblong in shape and pointed, rather stiff, with five prominent veins on the underside, and diminish gradually in size as they grow up the stem. The large flowers are in whorls in the axils of the uppermost few pairs of leaves, forming big orange-yellow clusters. The corollas are wheel-shaped, usually five-cleft, 2 inches across, sometimes marked with rows of small brown spots, giving a red tinge to the otherwise deep yellow. Seeds in abundance are produced by strong plants, and stock is easily raised from them.
For the successful cultivation of G. lutea, a strong, loamy soil is most suitable, the deeper the better, as the stout roots descend a long way down into the soil. Plenty of moisture is also desirable and a position where there is shelter from cold winds and exposure to sunshine. Old plants have large crowns, which may be divided for the purpose of propagation, but growing it on a large scale, seeds would be the best method. They could be sown in a frame, or in a nursery bed in a sheltered part of the garden and the young seedlings transplanted. They take about three years to grow to flowering size. It is, however, likely that the roots are richest in medicinal properties before the plants have flowered. A big clump of G. lutea is worthy of a conspicuous position in any large flower garden, quite apart from its medicinal value.
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Cautions
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Contraindicated for people suffering of hypertension and gastric hyperacidity.
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Writers such as Giorgio Vasari and John Ruskin interpreted Tintoretto's opposition to the artistic practice of his time as an aspect of personal eccentricity or spirituality. Jean-Paul Sartre saw the painter as 'the son of an artisan...attacking the patrician aesthetics of fixity and being'. These oversimplified and ahistorical interpretations suggest that Tom Nichols's re-assessment of Tintoretto's place in the history of art is long overdue. This lavish book, featuring the recently renovated cycle of paintings Tintoretto executed for the Scuola di San Rocco, shows that the artist sought to create an up-to-date approach to painting and an artistic manner which, for all its sophistication and originality, was intended to appeal in the first instance to the shared emotions of the widest-possible viewing audience of his time.
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