Gailium tinctorium aka Asperula tinctorium Wild Madder 4-8 Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Asia   Slender, scrambling, much branched perennial of swamps, pond margins and ditches.               Gaillum is derived from the Greek word, gallon which was the name of the plant described by Dioscorides as one used for curdling milk.

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