Artemisia absinthium

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Artemisia absinthium L.

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inflorescence
Order Asterales
Family Compositae
Genus Artemisia

2n = 18

Origin : Europe to central Asia
and Cachemire

wild and cultivated

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Description

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See Vilmorin (1904)

Popular names

  • English: absinth, wormwood
  • French: absinthe, grande absinthe
See more European names See history of European names See French names in Eugène Rolland See Dutch names in PLAND

Classification

Artemisia absinthium L. (1753)

Cultivars

History

Some sources about the history of absinthe

See also Sturtevant (1919)

Uses

drinking absinth
  • beverage
  • medicinal

See Cazin (1868), Musée de l'Absinthe at Auvers-sur-Oise and Wikipedia, where you will see that this plant has been much debated.

References

Links

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