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Myrica gale L. - syn. Myrica tomentosa (C. DC.) Asch. & Graebn.; Gale palustris (Lamarck) A. Chevalier
Myricaceae - sweet gale, bog myrtle, Gagelstrauch, Gagel
Deciduous shrub, up to 1.50m tall, native to Europe and Northern America; much-branched, branchlets purple-black, with brownisch-yellow resin glands; leaves oblanceolate to obovate, up to 6cm long, fragrant, ± leathery, base cuneate, margins usually minutely serrate, abaxially pale green, glabrous to densely pilose, adaxially dark green, glabrous to pilose, both surfaces with glands (bright yellow to orange); flowers staminate and pistillate mostly on different plants, occasionally on same plants.
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=220008911
„The foliage has a sweet resinous scent and is a traditional insect repellent, used by campers to keep biting insects out of tents… In north-western Europe (Germany, Belgium and Great Britain), it was much used in a mixture called gruit as a flavouring for beer from the Middle Ages to the 16th century, but it fell into disuse after hops supplanted gruit herbs for political and economic reasons.[2] In modern times, some brewers have revisited this historic technique and in Denmark and Sweden the plant is commonly used to prepare home-flavoured schnaps.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrica_gale
„Gale leaves have a nice, pleasant aromatic smell that increases when the leaves are dried. The taste is similar, but also somewhat bitter and astringent.“ [[http://gernot-ka