Broom flower

Contraindications Usually no undesirable side effects or hangover. Some persons experience mild headache immediately after smoking. Broom flowers are extremely toxic when ingested. Has heart-stimulating properties like digitalis. 

Broom flowers, seeds, and root as well as the whole herb have reportedly been used in treating tumors. ... 

Broom com is the fiber obtained from the flower head of another grass, Sorgum vulgare technicum grown in the United States. The fibers are less stiff than those of the broom root and are used in brooms. 

Monilia Pod Rot. This disease, still restricted to Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, may well rank with witches broom in the amount of losses produced. It is caused by Monilia roreri and is one of the most serious diseases of cacao. Little is known regarding the mechanism of infection of cacao pods by this fungus. Attempts to determine method of infection, suspected of occurring through the flowers, have been inconclusive. Bastidas (6) inoculated 3327 pods with cultures of Monilia by 11 different methods and could not induce infection. 

Flowers with reddish, twisted petals no fruit set. Cause Double blossom. Double blossom, known as rosette, also causes plants to throw out witch s brooms, dense masses of deformed twigs with pale leaves. To control this fungal disease, remove infected canes as soon as you notice them. To help prevent the spread of the fungus, spray the whole planting with copper 2 or 3 times at 10-day intervals. If the disease is rampant, mow down the whole planting and destroy the newly cut canes. Avoid planting sites near wild brambles, which may carry the disease. Resistant cultivars include Hordagrand and Humble . 

Later, the disease was observed, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, in plants of the same species they displayed similar symptoms and premature dropping of flowers (Kitajima et al., 1984 Kitajima, 1994 Davis, 1995). The disease has also been observed in naturally infected plants of H. rosa-sinensis in Brazil, Distrito Federal (P. S. T. Brioso, unpublished). In Australia, an unidentified phytoplasma has been reported to be associated with a witches broom disease of Hibiscus heterophyllus, an Australian native species that is also grown commercially (Hiruki, 1987). 

Figure 2. Phytoplasma disease symptoms on some medicinal plants (1) Cannabis witche s -broom, (2) Achyranthes yellow leaf, (3) Hibiscus yellowing, (4) Catharanthus roseus plant showing phyllody symptom, (5) Catharanthus little leaf, (6) Discolouration in rose, (7) Flower virescence of lily, (8) Multiple meristem of lily, (9) Witches broom disease of lily, (10) Advanced yellowing and loss of the entire crown of coconut, (11) Lethal yellowing of coconut, (12) Portulaca little leaf, (13) Yellowing, crinkling and tip necrosis of papaya, (14) Reddening and plant stunting of Bupleurum falcatum, (15,16,17) Echinacea floral malformation, (18) Echinacea leaf yellowing.

COMMON BROOM Cytisus scoparius, L., Link, Family Fabaceae, is a shrub growing in Europe and Western Asia. The whole aerial part of the shrub, including the seeds, is poisonous due to the presence of the alkaloid sparteine. The sparteine content in the leaves and branch tips is at its highest in the month of May and decreases after flowering, which takes place in June. 

The traditional method of essential oil analysis is to extract the plant material by steam distillation or with solvent and then fractionally distil the oil or extract and isolate individual components by chromatographic techniques for subsequent identification by spectroscopic methods. At each step the odour of the fractions and isolates is assessed and those with the desired characteristics are investigated further. To answer the enquiry about the key odour components of broom absolute, first a sample of the absolute that is of an acceptable odour quality is obtained. The absolute is the alcoholic extract of the concrete, which is itself the solvent extract of the flowers of Spartium junceum, Spanish broom, often referred to by its French name Genet. The odour of any natural extract can vary according to the geographical origin and quality of the plant material, the time of year it is harvested and the extraction method used. If no sample of adequate quality is commercially available then the fresh flowers would be obtained from the plant and the extraction carried out in the laboratory. 

T. triandra infected tillers had 11-25 nodes while flowering tillers had 6-10 nodes. On the Queensland hosts of N. scleroticus, the closely placed nodes, together with a tendency for short, stiff leaves in the upper parts of the infected tillers, led to the development of a witch s broom effect. The production of... 

C40H56O3, Mo 584.85, golden yellow prisms, mp. 184 °C, [a]p +190° (benzene), uv , 430, 459 nm (CHCI3) soluble in acetone less soluble in alcohols. F. is a xanthophyll (see carotinoids), occurring as the flower pigment of e.g., buttercup (Ranunculus acer, Ranunculaceae), dandelion (Taraxacum officinale, Asteraceae), broom species [including common broom... 

Brookswax P/P. See Emulsifying wax NF Broom (Cytisus scoparius) extract CAS 84696-48-0 EINECS/ELINCS 283-653-6 Synonyms Broom extract Cytisus scoparius Cytisus scoparius extract Sarothamnus scoparius extract Scotchbroom extract Definition Extract of the flowers of the broom, Cytisus scopanus Uses Tonic in cosmetics... 

Broom corn Flower head macroura Sorghum vulgare United States... 

Genista tinctoria flowers Luteolin glycosides Yellows, known as Dyer s broom ... 

The Brussels manuscript (1635, cf Merrifield) describes a stil de grain made from earth mixed with white flowers which, according to a note in the margin are fleurs de geniste (Genista tinctoria, dyer s broom ). 

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