EN--Ficaria



Celandine-Ficaria ranunculoides-Rev.
Vatrachiodon (Ramunculaceae).
Features of this small plant is shiny cordate leaves.
It blooms in early spring.
We find everywhere in Greece, in fields and hedges with household names, Zochadochorto, Sfourdakela, Sfourdakla.
The flowers are solitary, very large flower stalk (peduncle) with petalla much radially.
The roots of the plant form small vovlous poplalasiazetai of them easily.
The roots of celandine is irritating.
The extract used in many preparations at the local bottlenecks.
The roots of this plant are used in hemorrhoids with tea or decoction (50 g: 1000 water).
The leaves are eaten as salad, raw.
In Greece, the kind found F.
or meganthis (Ficaria grandiflora).