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Comfrey
Comfrey Com"frey, n. [Prob. from F. conferve, L. conferva, fr. confervere to boil together, in medical language, to heal, grow together. So called on account of its healing power, for which reason it was also called consolida.] (Bot.) A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum. Note: A decoction of the mucilaginous root of the ``common comfrey' (S. officinale) is used in cough mixtures, etc.; and the gigantic ``prickly comfrey' (S. asperrimum) is somewhat cultivated as a forage plant.

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- Comfrey is a city in Brown and Cottonwood counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The po****tion was 392 at the 2020 census. The majority of the people...
- flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae, known by the common name comfrey (pronounced /ˈkʌmfri/, from the Latin confervere to 'heal' or literally...
- Boraginaceae. Along with thirty four other species of Symphytum, it is known as comfrey (from the Latin confervere to 'heal' or literally to 'boil together', referring...
- borage family (Boraginaceae). They are commonly called American comfreys, wild comfreys, or hound's tongues. Members of this genus were formerly placed...
- The 1998 Comfrey–St. Peter tornado outbreak was an unseasonably-strong tornado outbreak which affected the Upper Midwest region of the United States on...
- Symphytum in the family Boraginaceae. Common names include rough comfrey and prickly comfrey. It is the tallest Symphytum species. It is native to Asia, and...
- Symphytum bulbosum, common name bulbous comfrey, is a flowering plant of the genus Symphytum in the family Boraginaceae. Symphytum bulbosum can reach...
- such as 'knitbone' reveal the healing role that tuberous comfrey and the various hybrid comfreys have pla**** in herbal medicine throughout the ages. In...
- Symphytum caucasi****, the beinwell, blue comfrey, or Caucasian comfrey, is an ornamental plant of genus Symphytum in the family Boraginaceae, which is...
- Russian comfrey or Quaker comfrey (Symphytum × uplandi****, syn. S. peregrinum auct.) is a common hybrid between Symphytum officinale and S. asperum. It...