Plants

Lime

Description: Woody plant up to 30 m high. Leaves are glabrous at the bottom side; only in the edges of the veins have hair tufts of rust colour, 3-9 cm. The floral consist of 4-15 flowers. The fruit is about 6 mm. Distribution in Kosovo: It grows in forests of hilly and mountainous area, also …

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Mountain germander

Description: Half-shrub, 10-25 cm high. Leaves are full and hairy only in the bottom side. The calyx is glabrous, rarely with hair. The flowers are yellow to yellowish . Distribution in Kosovo: It grows in pastures, dry hilly places, forest clearances, etc.. Parts used: Areal part – the herb (Teucrii montani herba). Harvest time: The …

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Dandelion

Description: Stalk-less perennial herbaceous plant, with thick fleshy roots, fulvous outside and white inside. Leaves placed in a rosette, long, green and glabrous, pinnately cleft and with a sharp apex. Flowers are placed in heads floral and yellow in colour. The fruit is achene with hairs dispersed by wind. Distribution in Kosovo: It grows in …

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Rowan

Description: Woody plant up to 15 m high, with smooth bark. Pinnate leaves with 5-8 pairs of crenulated leaflets. White flowers in corymb floral. The fruit is red and with latex. Distribution in Kosovo: It grows in forests, in hilly areas and alpine areas. Parts used: Ripened fruits (Sorbi aucupariae fructus)   Harvest time: Fruits …

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Winter savory

Description: Perennial plant, almost like a shrub with flower bearing stems, usually 10-40 cm, pubescent or glabrous. lissom -lanceolate leaves; glabrous with the exception of lips of cilia, more or less glandular. The calyx is 4-9 mm, tube type, with sharp teeth. The corolla is 6-14 mm, usually light rosy, rarely purple. Distribution in Kosovo: …

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Black elder

Description: A shrub and rarely a tree up to 6 m high. The stalk and branches are gray, the wood has a white pith in the middle. Leaves consist of 7 leaflets. Flowers are located in umbrella floral up to 30 cm. When ripe, fruits are purple almost black with three seeds and dark red …

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Elderberry tree

Description: Perennial herbaceous plant up to 2 m high. The stalk is straight, usually simple. Leaflets are longitudinal and longitudinal-lanceolate, sawn, glabrous in the upper side, pubescent in the bottom side. The floral is of 5-16 cm diameter, corymb that looks like an umbrella. White corolla, rarely rosy from the outside. Spherical black fruit, 4-6 …

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Bramble

Description: Bush or shrub up to 2 m high, arched or lying stalks, glabrous and soft-pubescent. Spikes (thorns) of a wide base, opened up to scythe. Leaves are of 3-5 leaflets, green and glabrous in the upper side, with white pubescence in the bottom side, bark. The floral is often tall with leaves at its …

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Dog rose

Description: Shrubs ranging from 1-3 m, elevated with green stems. Very strong spikes (thorns), arched with extended end. With 5-7 sessile leaflets, ovate or elliptical shaped, glabrous and without glands, with simple or doubled tooth. Flowers are solitary or scarce in corymbs. The fruit is red and glabrous of 10-20 mm diameter, spherical or elliptical …

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Wild pear

Description: Deciduous plant reaching 5-20 m in height, with branches rich in thorns, new gray-brownish branches. The leaves are elliptical, ovate or spherical in shape,  sphenoid or heart shape at the base,  serrated margins all around or on top only. Elliptical to spherical petals (10-17 x 7-13 mm fruit reaches 3-5 cm in diameter, yellow …

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