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Chenopodium vulvaria, the stinking goosefoot or notchweed, is a foul-smelling plant or weed. The plant is a member of the genus Chenopodium, the goosefoots.

Chenopodium vulvaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Chenopodium
Species:
C. vulvaria
Binomial name
Chenopodium vulvaria

Distribution


Its native distribution is practically pan-European and extends eastward to Pakistan. However, it has also naturalised in Australia, California and parts of South America.[1]

The world distribution
The world distribution

Ecology


It is an annual weed of bare soil and is not tolerant of competition. It is largely found where soil has been disturbed and in waste places by the sides of roads and walls.[1]


Etymology


Chenopodium vulvaria is mentioned in Linnaeus' Species Plantarum (1753).[2][3] The specific epithet comes from the Latin term vulva. This may be due to an association between the fishy odor of the plant and that of a bacterially imbalanced human vagina.[4] Indeed, the plant contains trimethylamine,[5][6] which has been suggested to be "the substance mainly responsible for the fishy odor often associated with bacterial vaginosis".[7] Many descriptions of the plant report it as having a fish-like odor.[4][8]

Nicolas Lemery (1721) stated that the name vulvaria is due to the medicinal uses of the plant,[9] which according to Grieve (1931) is used in the treatment of "hysteria and nervous troubles connected with women's ailments [...and] to cure barrenness".[10] Van Ravelingen (1644), on the other hand, noted that according to Matthias de l'Obel (1538-1616), "those who have rubbed [Chenopodium vulvaria] between their fingers are often asked whether they have dealt with any filthy woman, because it all stinks like the filthy and unclean whores, so that it is commonly called vagina-herb (kutten-cruydt)".[8]


See also



References


  1. Groom, Quentin (January 8, 2015), "Piecing together the biogeographic history of Chenopodium vulvaria L. using botanical literature and collections", PeerJ, 3: e723, doi:10.7717/peerj.723, PMC 4304866, PMID 25653906
  2. "The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  3. von Linné, Carl (1753). Species Plantarum volume 1. p. 220.
  4. Blackledge, Catherine (2020). Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina. Hachette UK. ISBN 9781474615846.
  5. Cromwell, B.T. (May 1950). "The micro-estimation and origin of trimethylamine in Chenopodium vulvaria L". The Biochemical Journal. 46 (5): 578–582. doi:10.1042/bj0460578.
  6. Mitchell, Stephen C.; Smith, Robert L. (May 2016). "Trimethylamine—The Extracorporeal Envoy". Chemical Senses. 41 (4): 275–279. doi:10.1093/chemse/bjw001.
  7. Brand, J.M.; Galask, R.P. (1986). "Trimethylamine: the substance mainly responsible for the fishy odor often associated with bacterial vaginosis". Obstetrics and Gynecology. 68 (5): 682–685. PMID 3763085.
  8. van Ravelingen, Joost (1644). Cruydt-boeck, vervolg van Dodonaeus of Dodoens`. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  9. Lemery, Herrn Nicolai. "Vollständiges Materialien-Lexicon". Zeno.org. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  10. Grieve, Maud (1931). A modern herbal: the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic, and economic properties, cultivation, and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs, and trees with all their modern scientific uses. London. ISBN 9780880299213.


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На других языках

- [en] Chenopodium vulvaria

[es] Chenopodium vulvaria

Chenopodium vulvaria es un especie de planta herbácea perteneciente a la familia Amaranthaceae.

[ru] Марь вонючая

Марь воню́чая (лат. Chenopódium vulvária) — однолетнее травянистое растение, произрастающее повсеместно по сорным местам, вид рода Марь (Chenopodium) семейства Амарантовые (Amaranthaceae). Видовой эпитет названия растения образован от лат. vulvarius, означающего «зловонный»[3].


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