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Latin NameCommon NameEdibility RatingMedicinal Rating
Artemisia capillarisYin Chen Hao13
Bupleurum chinenseBei Chai Hu23
Bupleurum falcatumThorow-Wax22
Cimicifuga dahuricaXing An Sheng Ma13
Cimicifuga foetidaFoetid Bugbane13
Cimicifuga heracleifoliaKomarov's Bugbane02
Cyrtomium fortuneiAsian netvein hollyfern02
Daphne genkwaLilac Daphne03
Dryopteris filix-masMale Fern24
Elsholtzia ciliataCrested latesummer mint22
Ephedra distachyaSea Grape, Jointfir24
Eriobotrya japonicaLoquat, Japanese Loquat43
Eucalyptus viminalisManna Gum32
Euodia ruticarpaWu Zhu Yu03
Eupatorium japonicumPei Lan13
Houttuynia cordataTsi, Chameleon, Rainbow Plant, Chameleon Plant44
Isatis tinctoriaWoad, Dyer's woad23
Lonicera japonicaJapanese Honeysuckle23
Melissa officinalisLemon Balm35
Phytolacca acinosaIndian Poke23
Phytolacca americanaPokeweed, American pokeweed, Garnet, Pigeon Berry, Poke33
Picrasma quassioidesNigaki12
Punica granatumPomegranate, Dwarf Pomegranate44
Quercus rubraRed Oak, Northern red oak32
Robinia pseudoacaciaBlack Locust, Yellow Locust32
Kalmia latifoliaMountain Laurel, Calico Bush, Ivy02
Anagallis arvensisScarlet Pimpernel22
Thuja occidentalisAmerican Arbor-Vitae, Arborvitae, Eastern Arborvitae, Siberian Arborvitae, Northern White Cedar, Wh23
Manihot esculentaCassava, Tapioca Plant, Yuca52
Senna singueanaWinter cassia, Sticky pod23
Simarouba amaraParadise tree, bitterwood34
Alchornea castaneifoliaIporuru04
Baccharis genistelloidesCarqueja04
Cassia sieberianaWest African Laburnum14
Croton lechleriSangre De Grado, Dragon's blood04
Croton palanostigmaSangre De Grado, Dragon's blood04
Croton salutarisSangre De Grado, Dragon's blood04
Gossypium barbadenseSea Island Cotton32
Gossypium herbaceumLevant cotton33
Phytolacca dodecandraEndod, Pokeberry23
Terminalia chebulaBlack Myrobalan, Chebulic Myroblan,35
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