Dusty miller

Artemisia stelleriana Bess., or dusty miller sagewort, beach wormwood old woman, or pai hao, fan, lu (Chinese), is a shrub that grows to 1.20 m in Japan, Korea, China, and Siberia. The whole plant is covered with a glaucous indumentum. The leaves are compound, and the lobes are rounded. The flowers are small, yellowish, and packed in globose capitula (Fig. 53). The medicinal values of Artemisia stelleriana Bess, were mentioned by Su Sung (11th century). It has been used internally for food, as carminative, to promote the growth of hair, and to stimulate mental faculties, and externally it provides a remedy for ulcers. 

Dusty millers grow best in full sun with average to fertile, well-drained soil. Pinch off flower heads as they appear. Few pests or diseases bother dusty millers. 

Dusty miller. See Senecio Dutch elm disease (DED), 7,243,244, 245,366,394-95,394 Dwarf mistletoe, 354... 

John E. J. Rasko, Jean-Luc Battini, Leonid Kruglyak, David R. Cox, A. Dusty Miller, Precise gene localization by phenotypic assay of radiation hybrid cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 97 (2000), 7388-7392. 

Dusty miller Senecio spp 1 Hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids... 

Dusty clinker (poor nodulization) and snowmen (a) Unfavorable temperature distribution (b) Too little melt (c) Too much coarse quartz, lime, slag (d) Heavy alkali circulation resulting in early crystal growth of belite and free lime and large silicate crystal size (Miller, 1980)... 

Miller, F.M., "Dusty Qinker and Grindability Problems," Rock Products, April 1980, pp. 152-157. 

An open lung biopsy from a 44-year-old male employed for the previous 6 years as an aluminium rail grinder working in an extremely dusty environment without wearing a protective mask showed numerous areas where the alveolar spaces were filled with granular, hypocellular eosinophilic material, which was strongly and uniformly periodic-acid-Schiff-positive material, diastase resistant, and metachromatic with toluidine blue (Miller et al. 

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