Ruscus

The plant in the roof tile vase is Ruscus aculeatus, or butcher's broom.

façonner - French Word-A-Day 2009

Threatened, endemic and protected plants include Cardamine chelido, Cypripedium calceolus, Daphne blagayana, Lilium bulbiferum, L. carniolicum, Primula kitaibeliana, P. wulfeniana, Ruscus hypoglossum and Paeonia mascula.

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia 2008

Butcher's broom Ruscus aculeatus has a long history of use for leg pains caused by swollen veins.

THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

= -- There are some plants whose stem or branches, instead of assuming the ordinary cylindrical form, are compressed or flattened; such are some species of _Epiphyllum_, _Coccoloba_, _Bauhinia_, &c. The same thing occurs in the leaf-like branches of _Ruscus_, the flower-stalks of _Xylophylla_, _Phyllanthus_, _Pterisanthes_.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Mere adhesion of the pedicels of the leaf, such as happens in _Ruscus_, in _Helwingia_,

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

[191] Professor Dickson concludes from the examination of these structures that the male cone, consisting of simple stamens developed on one common axis, must be regarded as a simple male flower, while the axillary scales of the female cone are by him compared with the flattened shoots of _Ruscus_.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

M. Fournier [354] mentions the stems of _Ruscus aculeatus_ rolled in a circle, others twisted spirally.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Sometimes, on the other hand, _Danaë_ has a fascicle of flowers inserted on the middle of the upper surface, as in _Ruscus_.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

M. Fournier [68] gives as an illustration the case of a specimen of _Ruscus aculeatus_ in which there occurred a division of the foliaceous branches into two segments, reaching as far as the insertion of the flower, but no further.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

_Ruscus_, _Asparagus_, _Pinus_, &c. Similar productions are met with within the flower, where they may occur as the representatives of sepals, petals, stamens, or pistils, or as mere excrescences.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters