Specimen
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Agnus castus Vitex
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Schafmulle
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Vitex agnus-castus L.
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Monnikenpeper (NL),
Chaste tree
(UK), Agnos (Gr), Vitex, Salix marina, Salix amerina (Lat), Agnus castus (apot), Schafmulle (HD).
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Notes: The German local name can indicate that Cadé received this plant from Germany or via a German order. This species was used by monks to keep to celibacy. According to Dodonaeus: 'een seer sonderlinghe medecÿne ende remedie voer den ghenen die in reynichheyt leuen willen / want hij wederstaet alle oncuysliche lusten ende begheerte', (a very perculiar medicine and treatment for those who want to live in purity / because he will resist all obscene lust and longings). Hence, the local names. Dodonaeus also wrote: 'dat reysende luyden / die daeraf een tacxken ouer huer draghen / niet moede en worden nog geen versmerthheyten crijghen' (travelling people / who carry a branch therefrom / do not get tired or pains). |