Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
665.57.00
665.57.00 Orobanchaceae
English: Broomrape family.
DD: Fluorine, Phosphorus, Silver series, Lanthanides.
Botany: 90 genera; 2000 species; temperate; Eurasia, North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, tropical Africa; herbs, shrubs; holoparasitic or hemiparasitic, parasitic, semi-parasitic; lack chlorophyll; yellowish, brownish, purplish, or white; leaves fleshy, sessile scales; flowers in racemes or spikes or singly at the apex of the slender stem; placentation parietal; fruit capsule, dry, dehiscent, 1 locular; seeds minute, endospermic, wind dispersed.
Taxonomy
In the Apg3 classification Orobanchaceae is a Family in Lamiales. In the older taxonomies the members of Orobanchaceae was a small Family in older taxonomies. Quite some members of the former Scrophulariaceae have been transferred to this family, for instance Euphrasia.
In the Plant theory Verbenales is split off from Lamiales. Orobanchaceae is placed in Subphase 7 in Lamiales, being a family of parasites and half parasites.
Introduction
They are friendly and make connections easily. They have an aspect of Phosphorus. They like to travel and discover new things.
They also have the creative and independent qualities of the Silver series and the Lanthanides.
There is a tendency to take things they need. They feel they have been taken advantage of easily, but they can do that to themselves very easily too. Typically, it is done in a friendly way, from friends who have more. They are not really criminals, more social takers and because they are so friendly and needy, it cannot easily be refused by others.
The opposite is that they are caring for people who are friendly, but are parasites. They feel that they need to support others who are handicapped or rejected. They feel guilty when they do not support the needy ones.
Mind
Friendly, sympathetic, having many friends.
Energy: weakness, cannot do or give much.
General
Sweat: hand, < excitement.
Sleep: > sleep; indisposed to rising; restless sleep.
Physical: < exertion, slight, shopping.
Body
Head: headache, < exertion.
Limbs: joints weak, lax tendons and connective tissue; luxation.
General
Sweat: hand, < excitement.
Sleep: > sleep; indisposed to rise; restless sleep.
Physical: < exertion, slight, shopping.