Medicinal Trees: Frangula alnus or Rhamnus frangula and Firmiana simplex

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  • Torey
    Torey Posts: 5,679 admin

    Changing those names again!

    I didn't realize that Rhamnus species had been changed to Frangula species. I checked with my plant atlas and they have changed the name of Cascara to the Frangula genus (F. purshiana) but have left Alder-leaved Buckthorn in the Rhamnus genus (R. alnifolia). So confusing! I guess we just have to accept learning all the possible names a species can have.

    The species we have here in BC are the two I mentioned. Cascara and Alder-leaved Buckthorn. They are quite a bit further south, though; not in my immediate area.

  • judsoncarroll4
    judsoncarroll4 Posts: 5,490 admin

    Well, what else is a taxonomist to do? They literally have one job to justify their expensive education... confusing people through further classification.