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Foxglove,wooly foxglove. A second entry because I am quite pleased with this misfiled shot ive just recovered.

As stated in the blog this is the origin of the very widespread modern Digoxin cardiac medicine. Because this plant has a very low therapeutic index (0.5) you should only let your local Druid or Medicine Man prepare the plant matrix.The cardiac glycosides are also present in the equally tricky hellebore (Helleborus) and some lilies.

The glycoside fire up your systolic contraction-a life saver in certain circumstances, a failing heart can beat more strongly and clear fluid thoroughly whilst resting between contractions. Phillips and Johnsone (87) give a good overview on toxicity in "Current therapeutics" .

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Pertinax, how large are these clusters in general? More than an inch or two?

 

There is a small plant similar to that growing around my sisters house in the mountains. Flowers are tighter in the cluster though.

 

I tried to take a picture of it to aid in identification but made the huge mistake of not turing on my close up macro... The result was three very out of focus shots because the camera did not auto focus in the right place. :(

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Pertinax, how large are these clusters in general? More than an inch or two?

 

There is a small plant similar to that growing around my sisters house in the mountains. Flowers are tighter in the cluster though.

 

I tried to take a picture of it to aid in identification but made the huge mistake of not turing on my close up macro... The result was three very out of focus shots because the camera did not auto focus in the right place. :(

 

the individual "gloves" are perhaps 2 inches long .This is a european range original.

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Awesome plant. I saw the plant which looks like this (I'm not sure that it was the same, I'll try to find my picture). Maybe Pertinax could say what it was.

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Awesome plant. I saw the plant which looks like this (I'm not sure that it was the same, I'll try to find my picture). Maybe Pertinax could say what it was.

I have a reasonable chance with indigenous european plants.

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