Plant of the week: One of the most versatile herbal medicines
Name: Plantain (Plantago major) Otherwise known as: Ripple grass, Waybread Habitat: A perennial member of Plantaginaceae family found in pastureland in Europe and Asia. It
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Plant of the Week: Plant has long history of treating heart
Name: Yellow Pheasant’s Eye (Adonis vernalis) Otherwise known as: Spring Adonis Habitat: A perennial member of the Ranunculaceae family, growing to about 20cm in lime-rich
Restaurant Review: Kyriakos Ofton Kleftiko, Nicosia
At the foot of ancient Idalion, close by the road to Nissou, was a fiery oven that was being fed with dishes the size of
Plant of the week: Plant seen as sexual stimulant for centuries piqued interest of drug companies
Name Yohimbe (Pausinystalia yohimbe) Otherwise known as: Yohimbinean, Herbal Viagra Habitat: An evergreen rainforest tree of the Rubiaceae family growing to 10m in rich, moist
Plant of the Week: Poisonous beans were used in Africa to prove witchcraft
Name: Calabar Bean (Physostigma Venenosum) Otherwise known as: Ordeal Nut, Chopnut Habitat: The plant is a climbing perennial member of the Leguminoseae family growing up
Plant of the week: Highly poisonous plant was popular among ancient herbalists
Name: Mezereon (Daphne mezerem) Otherwise known as: Dwarf Bay, Mezerie Cortex Habitat: A perennial shrub member of the Thymelaeceae family growing up to 2.5m in
Restaurant Review: Apron, Nicosia
While browsing at the Mouflon book store, the owner Ruth mentioned there is a new enterprise on the street: a small restaurant, close by, that
Plant of the Week: Plant once popular as asthma treatment almost scavenged to extinction
Name: Great Masterwort (Astrantia Major) Otherwise known as: Mountain Sanicle, Astrantia Habitat: A perennial aromatic shrub member of the Umbelliferae family growing up to 80cm
Plant of the week: Source of cinnamon sticks used by Egyptians for embalming
Name: Cassia (Cinnamomum cassia) Otherwise known as: Bastard cinnamon, Chinese cinnamon Habitat: A tree member of the family Lauraceae growing to about 12m in fertile,
Restaurant Review: Blue fish restaurant, Nicosia
What could please the Almighty more: breaking bread and eating marine dwellers on Good Friday. All this in an avenue that was once the province
Plant of the week: Plant once regarded as powerful aphrodisiac now used to treat eczema
Name: Carline Thistle (Carlina acaulis) Otherwise known as: Throatbleed, Dwarf Thistle Habitat: An herbaceous perennial member of the Compositae family, growing to about 30cm in
Plant of the week: Popular berry has long history as tonic for children
Name: Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) Otherwise known as: Quinsy Berries Habitat: A deciduous shrub of the Grossulariaceae family, growing to about 2m in moist hedgerows in
Plant of the week: Tonic known to Egyptians now used for range of treatments
Name: Safflower (Cathamus tinctorius) Otherwise known as: Bastard Saffron Habitat: An annual member of the Asteraceae family growing to about 1m in various types of
Plant of the Week: Plant used for seeds one of earliest known medical plants
Name: Caraway (Carum carvi) Otherwise known as: Apium, Carum Habitat: A biennial member of the Umbelliferae family growing to about 60cm in waste-ground in Europe
Obituary: modest proof-reader with little to be modest about
Born on New Year’s Eve 1930 at the family farm in Ramsbury on the beautiful Kennet Valley in Wilshire, Susan Grant, who died of a
Restaurant review: Higher Hotel Institute, Nicosia
Do you know where that is located? No. Shame on you… and on me. Did you know that you can enjoy a three course meal
Plant of the week: Flowers of plant used to heal war wounds added to mead
Name: Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria) Otherwise known as: Cocklebur, Church Steeples Habitat: An herbaceous perennial of the Rosaceae family growing to about one metre in dry
Plant of the week: Plant used to treat itching skin was used in past to remove freckles
Name: Chickweed (Stellaria media) Otherwise known as: Starwort, Alsine Media, Passerina Habitat: An annual sometime perennial member of the Caryophyllaceae family growing up to 40cm
Plant of the week: Wealth of uses since time of Alexander
Name: Aloe Vera (Aloe vera) Otherwise known as: Aloe Barbadensis, Aloe Vulgaris Habitat: A succulent member of the Liliaceae family growing up to 1.2m in
Plant of the week: Eclectics used poisonous plant to treat acne
Name: American Mandrake (Podophyllum peltatum) Otherwise Known As: Racoonberry, Duck’s Foot, Hog’s Apple Habitat: A perennial member of the Berberidacea family growing up to 30cm