#plant dictionary

• Lemon balm — A regional or popular name used in certain ethnographic areas for the lemon (the fruit of the Citrus limon tree) or for the aromatic plant known as lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), characterized by a strong and pleasant scent similar to that of citrus fruits. In old folk medical texts, the extract obtained from this plant was used as a natural remedy against anxiety states and digestive disorders.
• Hawthorn — A regional or popular name attributed to the hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), a thorny shrub of the Rosaceae family, recognized for its white flowers and red berries with cardiotonic properties; also, the term is sometimes used for the common dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) or sea buckthorn. In traditional rural phytotherapy, infusions from its leaves and young branches were administered as a natural remedy for regulating blood pressure.
• White poplar — A regional popular name used in certain areas of Transylvania for the white poplar (Populus alba), a tree of the Salicaceae family characterized by smooth, whitish bark and leaves covered on the underside with a dense, woolly, immaculate down. In other isolated local contexts, the term can be a rare phonetic variant for 'albeu', denoting small silvery river fish.
• Common bleak — A regional popular name used in certain river basins in Romania for the common bleak (Alburnus alburnus), a small river fish of the Cyprinidae family, characterized by an elongated, laterally compressed body covered with shiny silver scales that detach easily; also, the term can denote a variety of white grapes or an apple variety with whitish skin. In traditional fishing language, it is valued as live bait for large predatory fish.
• Asplenium adiantumnigrum — A fern species in the genus Asplenium, popularly known as black spleenwort; it grows on siliceous rocks, old stone walls, and acidic soils in temperate regions. It is characterized by ovate-lanceolate, bi- or tri-pinnately divided fronds of a glossy dark green, supported by rigid stipes that are brownish-black at the base, a structural chromatic trait from which the specific epithet 'adiantum-nigrum' originates.
• Asplenium dimorphum — A rare species of perennial fern in the Aspleniaceae family, endemic to Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean, popularly known as the two-branched spleenwort. It stands out due to its spectacular structural phenomenon of foliar dimorphism, developing two completely different types of fronds on the same plant: the sterile ones are broad, glossy, and partially divided, while the fertile fronds, which bear the spores, are finely dissected into thread-like segments, giving the plant a highly distinctive exotic look.
• Asplenium nidus — A popular species of epiphytic fern in the Aspleniaceae family, native to tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Oceania, commonly known as the bird's-nest fern. It is characterized by large, entire, lance-shaped fronds of a glossy light green, featuring a prominent dark midrib; the fronds grow arranged in a compact central rosette reminiscent of a nest, possessing the biological capacity to collect rainwater and organic matter falling from trees.