Talk:Tetrapanax

Chinese Medicinal Use
My wife is currently using this stuff to help promote lactation, there are a few web sites that describe this online.

http://taoism.about.com/od/herbsthatdraindampness/g/Tong_Cao.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.236.241.84 (talk) 13:41, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Epithet spelling

"Tetrapanax" is masculine in gender and thus the epithet is correctly spelled "papyrifer" (and "papyriferus" is incorrect under any circumstances). The name is spelled correctly as "papyrifer" in both Tropicos and IPNI. For more information see Nicolson 1986 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1221280) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.111.254.17 (talk) 15:17, 16 July 2012 (UTC)