If you kept goats in Crete or Cyprus, chances are your animals browsed on common native shrubs called cistus. These are to the Mediterranean what sagebrush is to the American West, and thus share some ...

シスタス（ラブダナム) / CISTUS（LABDANUM)（学名 ： Cistus ladanifer）： ハンニチバダ科 ロックローズ（岩のバラ)として知られています。 シスタスの葉からにじみ出るガムをラブダナムと呼びます。 ムスクっぽい個性的な香り。 聖書にも登場する神聖な芳香植物 ...

There are so many cistus varieties available that it's easy to find the right one for adding color to your summer planting scheme. And as summers become warmer and we need to conserve water, these ...

"Ambergris, a waxy secretion formed in the intestines of sperm whales, is one of the most-sought-after substances in the world." This description came from a January Bloomberg Businessweek detailing ...

It is hard to imagine a plant more deserving of a place in the early summer garden than cistus, or the sun rose. As tulips lose their shape and the apple blossom goes over, cistus comes into flower ...

Flowering nicely just now, cistus, also known as sunrose, is a plant of the sunny Mediterranean region and it can bring some of that atmosphere to the garden for a few weeks in early summer. An ideal ...

Extremely Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Victorian Engraved Botanical Illustration of the Hand Colored Meadow Saffron or Cistus from The American Flora, History of Plants and Wild Flowers: ...