In my perfectly land call it trubisco or trobisco: Torvisco, matagallinas, matapollos, Bush up to a meter in height present among the thickets of alistano mount lanceolate leaves with white flowers and fruit in the form of red berry. It is a poisonous plant, because baking Peel, leaves and berries is very laxative. It is also used in the chicken coop as an insecticide against the piojillo disease. It is said that some pastors tied a branch of spurge flax to the tails of sheep or lambs to halt decomposition. It has also been used as a system of fishing which is currently prohibited: branches of spurge flax is pounded and thrown in a river backwater. The resinous substance of this plant attacks the oxygen from the water with what after some hours the fish began floating belly up. Also tell the alistanos that burn this plant on the mountain during the winter, smoke drives away the fog. I ever, of child, did and saw for myself that that is not true. The scientific name of this plant is Daphne Gnidium in memory of the Greek nymph Daphne ( Apollo and Daphne ) and the Greek city of Cnidus ( of the ancient Asia minor or current 41 Turkey; where it grew abundantly. Here the Greeks dedicated a temple to Venus ( Aphrodite ) , whose statue sculpted Praxiteles ( the Venus of Cnidus ) taking as a model to the hetera Phyrne, lover of Pericles, the ruler of Athens in the 5th century before C. The legend of Apollo and Daphne tells Daphne to escape the harassment of Apollo became a plant of laurel. This plant, the torvisco, has leaves laurel-like but smaller and with more unpleasant smell.
