Astringent plant, near bell shaped flowers (8)? ...

Splitting a schefflera?
Answers:    Fritillaria verticillata:
"The bulbs are antidote, antitussive, astringent, expectorant, galactogogue and purgative. They contain fritimine which diminishes excitability of respiratory centres, paralyses voluntary movement and counters effects of opium."
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria...

The Manzanita shrub - have small bell shaped flowers. From the genus Arctostaphylos, it is commonly known as Manzanita, a Spanish term that translates to ˇ°little appleˇ±. It's flesh is mealy and astringent.
http://www.moplants.com/blog/?cat=8&page...

Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana ) has Inconspicuous but sweetly fragrant, white, bell shaped flowers within early to mid spring followed, on womanly plants, 1" fruit, green and astringent unripe... black with sweet palatable pulp surrounding hard seed when ripe.
http://museum.utep.edu/chih/gardens/plan...

Cowslip (P. veris), The stems of the cowslip bear clusters of bright sickly bell-shaped flowers with healthy-looking centers of each petal.
The flowers & root are astringent:
http://www.innvista.com/health/herbs/cow...
http://www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/bioref/Gen...

Good Luck! Hope this is sympathetic.
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