The bead plant (Nertera depressa) is a small alpine plant of the family Rubiaceae. It bears small, coriaceous leaves and tiny green flowers, and bright orange-red, berry-like fruit. Research Bead Plant
Bedstraw is the popular name of the different species of Galium, a genus of plants, of the order Rubiaceae. Of the sixteen species found in Britain one of the best known is the Yellow Bedstraw or Cheese-rennet (Galium verum), a common wayside plant, the flowers and roots of which afford yellow and red dyes. Goose-grass (Galium aparine) is another well-known member of the genus. Research Bedstraw
Chiococca is a genus of tropical plants, of the natural order Rubiaceae, consisting of small, often climbing, shrubs, with funnel-shaped, yellowish flowers and bearing a fruit consisting of a white berry with two seeds. The bark of the root of Chiococca anguifuga is a violent emetic and purgative. Research Chiococca
Coffee is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae. This shrub (Coffea arabica) is from 4 to 6 metres in height. The leaves are green, glossy on the upper surface, and the flowers are white and sweet-scented. The fruit is of an oval shape, about the size of a cherry, and of a dark-red colour when ripe. Research Coffee
Field-madder (Sherardia arvensis) is a common little branching weed of the family Rubiaceae, with pointed leaves arranged in whorls, and bearing in late summer little umbels of tiny pinkish flowers with funnel shaped corollas. Research Field-madder
Genipap is the fruit of the Genipa americana tree, of the family Rubiaceae. It is about the size of an orange and has a pleasant vinous flavour. Research Genipap
Lady's bedstraw (Galium verum) is a perennialherb of the family Rubiaceae with a creeping rhizome and decumbent or erect branched square stems. the leaves are linear and arranged in whorls of eight to twelve and have turned- under margins, a prominent midrib and are dark green and shiny above, pale and felted below. The flowers are small, bright-yellow and arranged in dense terminal panicles. The fruit is a smooth double achene, green at first and changing to black when dry. Research Lady's Bedstraw
Madder (Rubia tinctorum) or dyer's madder, as it is also known, is a perennialherb of the family Rubiaceae native to the Mediterranean and Near East, with a long, reddish-brown, much-branched rhizome, red fibrous roots and rough, square, ascending, prickly stems which branch at the top. The stiff, lanceolate, sessile leaves have prickly margins and grow in whorls up the stem. The flowers are small, yellow in colour and are arranged in axillary and terminal dichasial cymes. The fruit is a globose, fleshy, purple, one-seeded berry. Madder was once widely grown for a source of a permanent red dye. Research Madder
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