rheum maximowiczii

Rheum maximowiczii is a large herbaceous perennial plant species in the genus Rheum (rhubarbs) from the mountains of Central Asia where it grows in Kazakhstan, eastern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and northeastern Afghanistan.

This species first appeared before modern science in the herbarium of Karl Maximovich, in which he labelled the specimen as Rheum megalacarpum. One of the first Europeans to write about this species was the General Nikolai Ivanovich Korolkov, who was engaged in the conquering ...