A NOTE FROM THE COLLECTION
How we keep this collection
Sources, different kinds of evidence, recipe notes, artwork, and the care given to attribution.
Keep the source beside the story
A botanical name, a family recollection, and a result from a clinical trial establish different things. Each record names its kind of knowledge and provides a route back to the sources it uses.
Plants and nutrition
Botanical introductions cite Kew's Plants of the World Online and the other named botanical references. Scientific explainers name the question, relevant evidence, and material limits. A study of a particular preparation or group of people is described within that scope.
This collection offers general education. An ancestry category does not supply a personal meal prescription, and these pages do not diagnose symptoms or recommend treatment.
Traditions and belief
Plant Lore identifies the community, text, archive, or individual account being discussed. Evidence that a belief was documented is distinct from evidence that its claimed effect occurs. Living religious traditions retain their own context and terminology.
Recipe sources and reuse
Full recipes use individually reviewed text with an explicit reuse basis. Each identifies the author, source, consulted version, published permission, changes and testing status. Wikibooks adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0; selected Public Domain Recipes contributions retain their named contributors and the project’s public-domain dedication. A source’s license applies to the identified work, not to everything on this site or to your family material.
Imported recipes retain fixed source quantities. Reported times and yields belong to the source; missing values remain unreported. These recipes have not been independently kitchen-tested by Herbologium. A source’s testing program is credited only where documented. Nutrition estimates are omitted because this edition has not calculated and validated them.
Cooking cards contain complete recipes with reviewed publishing bases. Sources without republication permission can support separately credited contextual readings, but are not presented as external-only cooking cards. Attribution alone is not permission to copy. Recipe illustrations have separately recorded generation details and rights statements. Historical passages identify their book and edition, retain their wording and are presented as readings rather than modern cooking guidance.
Independent editorial preparations
New editorial formulas and instructions are prepared with AI assistance and identified as such. Their quantities, timing estimates and development notes are recorded separately from historical sources. They have not been independently kitchen-tested. A cooking companion to a cultural reading does not claim that community’s endorsement or reproduce its named cook’s recipe.
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Hover, focus or tap a source-card button for its citation and reuse details. Source links also remain in the reading. Downloads, printed cards and public recipes selected for a booklet retain attribution, license and changes. Private notes and family artifacts retain their own permissions.
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AI-generated serving illustrations
All full recipes have serving illustrations created with OpenAI image generation and art direction for Herbologium. Their captions and image details identify them as AI-generated. They depict possible servings; they do not document a cooked batch or a kitchen test. A small herbologium.com mark identifies the collection, not recipe authorship.
Recipe credit and recipe-text licensing remain separate. No blanket reuse license is stated for these generated illustrations. Responsive files and downloadable pin images carry embedded AI provenance, and their source cards retain generation details. Inspect the illustration register →
Imagined ingredient studies
The ingredient still lifes are original AI-generated illustrations made for Herbologium. Taj Mahal quartzite, flax linen, and soft daylight connect them visually to the recipe collection. Their image information cards, alternative text, and embedded metadata identify their origin. They are not photographs, botanical identification guides, or evidence of a historical custom.
Earlier archival plates retain their separate credits in the artwork catalogue. No human photographer or blanket reuse license is claimed for the generated images. Inspect the ingredient illustration register →
Imagined food studies in the Body notebook
The milk and tomato still lifes were created with OpenAI image generation for these readings. The lentil and oat images come from our original ingredient illustration collection. Image info cards preserve their generation records and separate credits. These scenes do not document study foods, measured portions, or kitchen tests. No human photographer or blanket reuse license is claimed.
The diagrams are original, simplified SVG explanations with their scientific references beside the text. Shapes represent concepts, not molecular structures or anatomical measurements. Step controls focus the explanation; the complete text remains available and prints with its sources. Inspect the Body illustration register →
Food and place in the Atlas
Country links describe the reviewed sources: recipe versions, regional or shared traditions, and documented accounts. Source categories and recipe names do not prove invention or exclusive ownership. Ingredient links identify use in a selected recipe or account, not a plant’s native range. Broad regional associations remain broad when the sources do not establish a country. Places without readings show our collection’s gaps.
Modern boundaries use credited Natural Earth data as a reference. Communities and food traditions can cross them. Every geographical connection retains its own source card; recipe authorship remains independent.
Authorship and editorial preparation
Evelyna Bellamy is the site founder and collection curator. Original research, recipes, testimony, and artwork retain their actual creators' names. This role does not assign her authorship, photography, research, or kitchen-testing credit for that material. Unknown creators stay explicitly unrecorded.
Explanatory summaries and site copy were prepared with AI assistance. They are editorial readings of the linked material, not statements written or endorsed by its original authors. Direct quotations and reproduced recipes retain their own attribution. Consultation dates describe the material accessed for this edition; they do not document personal source review by Evelyna. No independent expert review of Herbologium's summaries, original interviews or fieldwork, or Herbologium kitchen tests are recorded for this edition.
Generated rosemary artwork is labeled as generated. Historical plates retain their archive and creator credit; recipe illustrations retain their AI disclosure and generation records. Private family material and cooking observations are supplied by the reader and stay distinct from public source readings.
Corrections
A meaningful correction should identify the statement, proposed change, and supporting evidence.