Aloe vera kender du jo nok... Men er du også med på, at der er 600 arter i Aloe-slægten? Det startede i det sydlige Afrika. Og selv om Aloerne er endemiske, spredte de sig i løbet af 16 millioner år på langs den Afrikanske østkyst, til flere øer i det indiske ocean og siden Mellemøsten, hvor Aloe vera opstod som art.
Louise Isager Ahl bl.a. om brug i traditionel naturmedicin. Og tager os med ind i supermarkedet, hvor en vis forvirring hersker. For hvordan kan Aloe vera også hedde Aloe barbadensis? Louise kort nævner den svenske naturforsker Carl von Linné (1707-78).
Men det var Nicolaas Laurens Burman, som navngav Aloe vera i Flora Indica i 1768. Mens Philip Miller fulgte efter blot få dage senere og navngav planten: Aloe barbadensis i Gardener's Dictionary. Den kan du læse i her– i flere scannede versioner...
Mens du finder Louises artikel her: ALOE VERA – en plantes rejse gennem natur- og kulturhistorien udgivet i Tidsskriftet Kulturstudier.
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