Rheum rhabarbarum, SE: Rabarber, DE: Gemeiner Rhabarber,
NL: Rabarber, UK: Rhubarb

Scientific name:		Rheum rhabarbarum L.
Swedish name:		Rabarber
German name:		Gemeiner Rhabarber
Nederlandse naam:		Rabarber
English name:		Rhubarb
Family:		Polygonaceae, Knotweed family, Slideväxter

Life form:		Perennial
Stems:		Thick red stalks (up to 5 cm) stems and thick petioles (up to 2-3 cm)
Leaves:		Basal rosette, triangular-shaped leaves with long fleshy petioles. T
Flowers:		Hermaphrodite; 6 white-green or yellow-white tepals
Flowering Period:		May, June
Fruits:		Achenes, one seeded, trigonous, with angles, wings submembranous, brown or henna
Habitat:		Rhubarb is a cultivated species that can sometimes be encountered persistent or temporary wild

Derivation of the botanical name: Rheum, Greek rhēon or rha for "roots and rhizomes" of rhabarbarum : rha, rhubarb (from Greek rhā , perhaps from Rhā, the Volga River. rhabarbarum, literally the rhubarb of foreigners; Long ago, on the banks of the river Rha (the modern Volga), barbarian tribes were familiar with a plant with red-green succulent stalks that grew along the river. The plants from the Rha of the barbarians became the Latin "rhabarbarum", root of the modern English "rhubarb. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.