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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The effects of heavy metals on the growth, mineral composition (P, K, Fe and Mn) and metal accumulation of five populations of Cistus ...

"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 ...

The germination response of different sized seeds from individuals of a Mediterranean fireprone shrub (Cistus ladanifer) was investigated in relation to pre-germination heating. A control (no heating) ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that extracts of the medicinal plant Cistus incanus (Ci) prevent human immunodeficiency viruses from infecting cells. Active antiviral ingredients in the extracts inhibit ...

WHEN the sun shines, few plants look as splendid as the sunroses, and they have been wonderful in recent days. The sunrose, or cistus, is not a true rose but it has flowers that are very similar in ...