English rhubarb is principally produced at Banbury, Oxfordshire, from the rheum rhaponticum. |
Here for instance are the directions to be given a patient suffering from rheum or catarrh. |
When Morgan lifts his glasses to wipe the rheum from his eyes it seems there is nothing crueller than ageing. |
The ease with which she climbed suggested a much younger woman, as did her eyes, which were clear and alert, free of the rheum typical of the aged. |
We were planting jungle-type plants like rheum, gunnera and macleaya so it must have been one of those hairy-leafed blighters. |
I must have blinked too, to get the sleeping rheum out of my eyes – something had got into them, surely… Because this could not be right. |