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The "Ibuki-bofuu" (Libanotis coreana) belongs to Apiaceae (the Carrot family). It is a perennial herb that is distributed northward from Kinki district of Honshu to Hokkaido in Japan, as well as the southern Korean Peninsula. This herb grows in sub-alpine, sunny grasslands, and can reach 40-90 cm in height. The leaves are odd-bipinnate to odd-tripinnate compound, and the leaflets are deep-lobed palmately. The compound umbels are borne at the tip of stems, and the white small flowers bloom from July to September. The rootstock is called "Wa-bofuu" and used as a cold medicine.
In Korean, it's called "teol-gi-reum-na-mul" (털기름나물) or "tan-na-bang-pung" (탄나방풍). "teol-gi-reum-na-mul" is a compound word consisting of "hair" (teol: 털) + "oil" (ki-reum: 기름) + "wild vegetable" (na-mul: 나물). "tan-na-bang-pung" is a compound word consisting of "tan-na" (탄나) + "Saposhnikovia Root" (pang-pung: 방풍). By the way, "tan-na" is the former name of Jeju Island.
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