Color Spikenard

Spikenard. With separate flower, open corolla and fruit.

 

Description of Botanical Coloring Page: A perfume made from the odoriferous roots of a plant growing high up on the Himalayas. It belongs to the same family as the valerian, the plant of which are usually strong-scented or aromatic herbs. The spikenard was belived to be true valerian growning in Crete, but it is now generally taken to be Nardostachys jatamansi, which has been from the earliest times exported from India. By the time it reached the Middle East from the heights of the Himalayas it have become very costly, and the alabaster cruse of ointment, consisting of genuine nard, was so precious that it might have been sold for three hundred Roman pence (Mark 14: 3-5). The revisers in the margin say, "Gr. pistic nard, pistic being perhaps a local name. Others take it to mean genuine; others liquid." There is no eveidence that such a local name was ever used, and there seems no reason for setting aside the root meaning of pistic.

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