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24-631: Buxbaum is a German surname meaning box tree . Notable people with the surname include: Franz Buxbaum (1900–1979), Austrian botanist Friedrich Buxbaum (1869–1948), Austrian cellist Helmuth Buxbaum (1939–2007), Prussian-born Canadian–American businessman, convict Johann Christian Buxbaum (1693–1730), German physician and botanist Joseph Buxbaum , American neuroscientist Josh Blake (born 1975), born Joshua Buxbaum, American actor See also [ edit ] Buchsbaum Bucksbaum [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

48-413: A box was originally a receptacle made of boxwood. The leaves were formerly used in place of quinine , and as a fever reducer. Buxus sempervirens is a medicinal plant used to treat many diseases. It contains steroidal alkaloids such as cyclobuxine . It also contains flavonoids . B. sempervirens was not known for its medical use until the beginning of the 1600s. After this it was found that

72-403: A day) is still consumed for antihelminthic , diaphoretic , and cholagogue purposes. Also, the leaves from B. sempervirens were used as an auburn hair dye. The plant Buxus sempervirens has been well investigated chemically. During late 1980s, Dildar Ahmed while working on his PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof Atta-ur-Rahman, isolated a number of steroidal alkaloids from the leaves of

96-404: A striking appearance created by lacy leaves or long needles, while other ornamentals are grown for distinctively colored leaves, such as silvery-gray ground covers and bright red grasses, among many others. Other ornamental plants are cultivated for their blooms. Flowering ornamental plants are a key aspect of most gardens, with many flower gardeners preferring to plant a variety of flowers so that

120-624: A wide variety of colors, textures, and sizes available. Many ornamental types of grass are true grasses (Poaceae), however, several other families of grass-like plants are typically marketed as ornamental grasses. These include the sedges (Cyperaceae), rushes (Juncaceae), restios (Restionaceae), and cat-tails (Typhaceae). All are monocotyledons , typically with narrow leaves and parallel veins. Most are herbaceous perennials , though many are evergreen and some develop woody tissues. Ornamental grasses are popular in many countries. They bring striking linear form, texture, color, motion, and sound to

144-972: Is a major branch of horticulture . Commonly, ornamental garden plants are grown for the display of aesthetic features including flowers , leaves , scent, overall foliage texture, fruit, stem and bark, and aesthetic form. In some cases, unusual features may be considered to be of interest, such as the prominent thorns of Rosa sericea and cacti . The cultivation of ornamental plants in gardening began in ancient civilizations around 2000 BC. Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings of 1500 BC show physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design. The wealthy pharaohs of Amun had plenty of lands to grow all different kinds of ornamental plants. Ornamental plants and trees are distinguished from utilitarian and crop plants, such as those used for agriculture and vegetable crops, and for forestry or as fruit trees. This does not preclude any particular type of plant being grown both for ornamental qualities in

168-457: Is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing 1 to 9 m (3 to 30 ft ) tall, with a trunk up to 20 centimetres (8 in) in diameter (exceptionally to 10 m tall and 45 cm diameter ). Arranged in opposite pairs along the stems, the leaves are green to yellow-green, oval, 1.5–3 cm long, and 0.5–1.3 cm broad. The monoecious flowers are inconspicuous but highly scented, greenish-yellow, with no petals, and are insect pollinated;

192-589: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Buxus sempervirens Buxus sempervirens , the common box , European box , or boxwood , is a species of flowering plant in the genus Buxus , native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey. Buxus colchica of western Caucasus and B. hyrcana of northern Iran and eastern Caucasus are commonly treated as synonyms of B. sempervirens . Buxus sempervirens

216-608: Is identified with the Hebrew word תְאַשּׁוּר tə’aššûr oft-mentioned in the Book of Isaiah . Catholic households in climates where palms are scarce or nonexistant often use boxwood twigs instead to adorn their crosses on Palm Sunday . Slow growth of box renders the wood ("boxwood") very hard (possibly the hardest in Europe along with Cornus mas ) and heavy, and free of grain produced by growth rings, making it ideal for cabinet-making ,

240-550: Is not found disagreeable by all , despite its having been likened to cat urine. Several cultivars have been selected, including 'Argenteo-variegata' and 'Marginata' with variegated foliage; such "gilded box" received a first notice in John Parkinson 's Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (1629). 'Vardar Valley', a slow-growing particularly hardy semi-dwarf cultivar, was selected in 1935 by

264-507: Is not to everyone's liking: the herbalist John Gerard found it "evil and lothsome" and Daniel Defoe recounts that at Hampton Court Palace Queen Anne had the box hedging removed because she found its odour offensive. In the American South, it has sometimes been called "rich man's hedge," and was often used to anchor the landscape plantings on either side of the front door of a house. The scent, most pungent on warm summer days,

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288-442: The surname Buxbaum . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buxbaum&oldid=730641576 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

312-644: The American botanist Edward Anderson in the upper Vardar valley and sent to the Arnold Arboretum for evaluation. The following varieties and cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit :- A pest which spreads through Buxus sempervirens is Cydalima perspectalis , the box tree moth. A kind of box, B. microphylla is more injured by C. perspectalis than B. sempervirens . The boxwood

336-451: The crafting of flutes and oboes , engraving , marquetry , woodturning , tool handles , mallet heads and as a substitute for ivory ; the wood is yellow in color. " Digging sticks " fashioned by Neanderthals more than 170,000 years ago in Italy were made from boxwood. The British wood-engraver Thomas Bewick pioneered the use of boxwood blocks for wood-engraving. In Old English ,

360-563: The foliage of ornamental plants, compromising their aesthetic appeal and overall health. This widespread recognition of the Japanese beetle's impact underscores the importance of effective pest management strategies to protect ornamental gardens and landscapes from infestation. The term ornamental plant is used here in the same sense that it is generally used in the horticultural trades, in which they are often just called "ornamentals". The term largely corresponds to 'garden plant', though

384-493: The fruit is a three-lobed capsule containing 3-6 seeds. The species typically grows on soils derived from chalk , limestone , usually as an understorey in forests of larger trees, most commonly associated with European beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) forests, but also sometimes in open dry montane scrub, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Box Hill, Surrey is named after its notable box population, which comprises

408-399: The garden is continuously in flower through the spring and summer. Depending on the types of plants being grown, the flowers may be subtle and delicate, or large and showy, with some ornamental plants producing distinctive aromas. Ornamental plants are beneficial. Ornamental grasses and grass-like plants are valued in home landscapes for their hardiness, ease of care, dramatic appearance, and

432-636: The garden, and for utilitarian purposes in other settings. Thus lavender is typically grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, but may also be grown as a crop plant for the production of lavender oil . Ornamental plants are frequently targeted by the Japanese beetle , a notorious insect pest known for its destructive feeding habits. With a voracious appetite, Japanese beetles pose a significant threat to various plant species, including ornamental flowers, fruit-bearing trees, and agricultural crops. Their indiscriminate feeding behavior can cause extensive damage to

456-486: The keystone of ornamental gardening, and they come in a range of shapes, sizes, and colors suitable to a broad array of climates, landscapes, and gardening needs. Some ornamental plants are foliage plants grown mainly or entirely for their showy foliage; this is especially true of houseplants. Their foliage may be deciduous, turning bright orange, red, and yellow before dropping off in the fall, or evergreen, in which case it stays green year-round. Some ornamental foliage has

480-716: The largest area of native box woodland in England. The species is locally naturalised in parts of North America. In Britain, four Roman burials featured coffins containing sprays of the evergreen box, a practice unattested elsewhere in Europe. Box leaves have also been found from several towns, villas and farmsteads in Roman Britain, indicating ornamental planting. Box remains a very popular ornamental plant in gardens, being particularly valued for topiary and hedges because of its small leaves, evergreen nature, tolerance of close shearing, and scented foliage. The scent

504-408: The latter is much less precise, as any plant may be grown in a garden. Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for display purposes, rather than functional ones. While some plants are both ornamental and functional, people usually use the term "ornamental plants" to refer to plants which have no value beyond being attractive, although many people feel that this is value enough. Ornamental plants are

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528-455: The leaves (containing alkaloids, oils and tannin ), the bark (containing chlorophyll , wax, resin , lignin and minerals ) and the oil from the wood had a medical effect. It then was used to treat gout , urinary tract infections, intestinal worms, chronic skin problems, syphilis , hemorrhoids , epilepsy , headache and piles, but also had the reputation of curing leprosy , rheumatism , HIV, fever and malaria . For treating malaria it

552-633: The plant. A new system of nomenclature for buxus alkaloids was also proposed based on buxane nucleus. He also isolated a flavonoid glycoside, and named it galactobuxin based on the fact that it contains a galactose ring. Ornamental plant Almost all types of plant have ornamental varieties: trees, shrubs , climbers, grasses, succulents , aquatic plants , herbaceous perennials and annual plants . Non-botanical classifications include houseplants , bedding plants , hedges, plants for cut flowers and foliage plants . The cultivation of ornamental plants comes under floriculture and tree nurseries , which

576-441: Was used as a substitute for quinine, but because of the side effects and the fact that there are better medicinal alternatives than B. sempervirens it is normally not used any more to treat these diseases. Homeopaths still make use of the leaves against rheumatism . While herbalists have used box leaf tea to lower fevers, it is very rarely used today. In Turkey , where the plant is called Adi şimşir , this tea (one glass

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