It’s not often that a scientific name is prettier than a common one, but in the cases of felon herb, wormwood and mugwort, 18th century botanists improved the ring when they renamed the plants after ...

Spooky visions of moss-draped trees lining dark, isolated roads, cemeteries, gardens filled with bats, ghosts and witches flying above the trees are fodder for horror movies, fiction writers, and ...

National Absinthe Day is marked annually on March 5 to raise awareness and celebrate the strong alcoholic drink also known as "The Green Fairy." Absinthe is a combination of spirits and herbs, mainly ...

WORMWOOD, Artemisia absinthium, is shown in James Sowerby’s 1803 handcolored engraving. Oil of wormwood was extracted from the herb’s leaves, flowers and stem; it gave absinthe a distinctively bitter ...

This paper presents a karyological and cytogenetic characterisation of Artemisia absinthium var. absinthium and A. absinthium var. calcigena (Asteraceae, Anthemideae). Genome size (assessed as nuclear ...

NEW YORK, June 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Before the US legalized wormwood - the infamous herb associated with absinthe - in 2007, childhood friends Taras Hrabowsky and Sasha Selimotic were already ...

If there is one drink I recommend you don't treat your true love to on Thursday, then it's absinthe. The defining ingredient, artemisia absinthium or wormwood, first grew "in the winding track of the ...

POPULAR LORE HAS IT that absinthe, the potent wormwood-flavored alcohol, causes hallucinations, epileptic-like attacks, and bouts of madness for those who drink it. Scientists studying absinthe in ...