Talk:Spiraea

Vandalism

A group of kindergarten students is apparently vandalizing this page. Jermor 03:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Meadowsweet Confusion

I have read enough about these species to know that this page is confusing and misleading, but not enough to go ahead and fix it myself. The problem is that the link is made from the Spiraea genus to the old common name of "meadowsweet" and then the authors proceed to use these names interchangeably.

This is wrong.

The plants which carry the common name of meadowsweet today have all been moved out of Spiraea and now have a genus of their very own named Filipendula. Filipendula contains all the plants traditionally used in European and Amerindian herbal medicines, including ulmaria, which, when it was Spiraea ulmaria (instead of Filipendula ulmaria), gave its name to aspirin.

This Spiraea article may wish to point out or make note of this historical connection, but the connection itself has been severed. Therefore, the words should not be used interchangeably as if the connection was still meaningful or valid. It is not. BeeTea (talk) 21:29, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

It helps people —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.127.148.86 (talk) 17:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

As aspirin source

The section on Uses has "Acetylsalicylic acid was first isolated from Filipendula ulmaria, a species at the time classified in the genus Spiraea".

I have not been able to find any support for acetylsalicylic acid being found as a natural product in Filipendula ulmaria or anywhere else. The claim is not made in the wiki pages for acetylsalicylic acid or History of Aspirin and is inconsistent with this from the page for Filipendula ulmaria Chemical constituents include salicylic acid, flavone glycosides, essential oils, and tannins. In 1897, Felix Hoffmann created a synthetically altered version of salicin, derived from the species, which caused less digestive upset than pure salicylic acid. The new drug, formally acetylsalicylic acid, was named aspirin by Hoffmann's employer Bayer AG after the old botanical name for meadowsweet, Spiraea ulmaria

The claim is not referenced in the sentence where it is made and is not supported by any of the references [5,6,7] for the following sentence. --Tslumley (talk) 03:33, 27 December 2019 (UTC)