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Wild Hyacinth Hyacinthus nonscriptus

Common Names

Wild Hyacinth , Bluebell

Botanical Name

Hyacinthus nonscriptus

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Wild Hyacinth Medicinal Properties & Benefits
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Wild Hyacinth Medicinal Uses & Benefits

Plant Description

Hans-Simon Holtzbecker 1659

History and Traditions

The Wild Hyacinth is in flower from early in April till the end of May, and being a perennial, and spreading rapidly, is found year after year in the same spot, forming a mass of rich colour in the woods where it grows. The long leaves remain above ground until late in the autumn. From the midst of very long, narrow leaves, rising from the small bulb and overtopping them, rises the flower-stem, bearing the pendulous 'bluebells' arranged in a long, curving line. Each flower has two small bracts at the base of the short flower-stalk of pedicel. The perianth (the term applied when the parts of the calyx and corolla are so similar in form and colour that no difference is perceptible) is bluish-purple and composed of six leaflets. The flowers have a slight, starch-like scent.. The bulbs are poisonous in the fresh state. The viscid juice so abundantly contained in them and existing in every part of the plant has been used as a substitute for starch and in the days when stiff ruffs were worn was much in request, being thought second only to Wake-robin roots. It was also used for fixing feathers on arrows, instead of glue and as bookbinders' gum for the covers of books.
The roots, dried and powdered, are balsamic, having some styptic properties which have not been fully investigated. (M. Grieve, A Modern Herbal, Vol II, pg 424)

Folklore, Myths and Legends

Greeks Romans

Hyacinth flower of grief and mourning of ancient Greek legend, is the namesake of Hyacinthus, a star crossed lover of Apollo and Zephyrus. Upon his death the Greek letters 'ai, ai,' were traced, so that the cry of woe might for evermore have existence on the earth. As our English variety of Hyacinth had no trace of these mystic letters, our older botanists called it Hyacinthus nonscriptus, or 'not written on.' A later generic name, Agraphis, is of similar meaning, being a compound of two Greek words, meaning 'not to mark.'

Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Volume 2 (1931)

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