Flowers and Their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms by Karen Azoulay

Author:Karen Azoulay [Azoulay, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published: 2023-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

Dogbane

Falsehood

The term bane was originally used to refer to something that caused death. When added to plant names, it revealed a plant’s particular poisonous nature. Dogbane was known to kill or repel canines.

Dogwood

Durability

Chewing on sticks as a method of oral hygiene has a long history, tracing back as far as 3500 BCE in Babylonia. This technique has long been used by people across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Until the late eighteenth century, Europeans simply wiped their teeth with salted rags. Early American colonists caught on to the Indigenous ways and used frayed dogwood twigs as toothbrushes. Bark would be stripped from young twigs and a good chew would spread the tip of the twig into a fibrous brush. According to Gunn’s Domestic Medicine (1831), this method was superior to the newfangled toothbrushes, which were made of hog bristles.

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