What is a gas plant?

Gas plant or dictamnus albus is a perennial permanent perennial rutaceae or family rue and is originally from southern Europe, North Africa and South Central Asia. In the US, it is generally resistant in the USDA hardness zones of three to eight. People call it gas race because of its volatile oil. The plant releases lemon oil as a steam. On a quiet, hot night, if you hold a burning match near flowers or stem, the steam ignites quickly and the flames go out. Its glossy green leaves usually have a slight lemon odor like many plants in the Rue family and in the autumn meets on a stellar, brown seed. In general, the gas plant grows best in a sunny location with a partial shade to protect it from combustion in the hottest areas such as southern fiction and North Africa. It usually produces loose towers in the shape of a pyramid of fragrant white, purple or pink flowers. The color of the cup shape depends on the cultivar.

Gardeners usually know d. Albus with several common names, including Dittana, Fraxinella and Burning Bush. Burning Bush also refers to eonymus atropurpureus and e. Americanus , a different family. The gas plant usually lives a long life and survived three generations of one family. Most gas plants cannot survive transplantation after the third year of growth; Therefore, the gardener should carefully choose the final place.

One of the dangers of gas plants in the garden is phytophotodermatitis, or PPD, rash and possible blisters that people receive from plant toxins and exposure to the sun. The plant sap causes the skin to be photo -sensitive and burned, and other plants in the Rue family have the same effect. Generally advises gardeners to wear gloves, long -sleeved shirts and long pants while pruning or working around these plants.

various cultures use a gas plant for several folk remedies. Despite the SchoPPD plants cause it some people use it locally for scabies, impetigo and eczema, while others use it locally for arthritis, rheumatism and joint pain. Sometimes people make leaf and flower infusion and use it to stimulate the uterine muscles, promote urine flow and relieve varicose pain. Another herb remedy uses dried root and a bark mixed with mábeovine to treat epilepsy, convulsions and fever and killing parasites.