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Edible Flowers: Part Fifteen
Edible Flowers Tempt the Palate Mango, Catnip, Pignut, Lovage, Salsify, Hairy Cowpea, Fritillary, Mint, Cow Slip, Birch Mango blossoms Did you know mangoes and poison ivy are botanical kissing...
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Edible Flowers: Part Sixteen
There are hundreds of edible flowers Oregon Holly Grape, Snapdragon, Caesar’s Weed, Golden Alexanders, Loroco, Safflower, White Sagebrush, Puget Balsam Root, Yellow Commelina, Bitter Gourd Oregon...
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Corn Poppy
The Memorial Poppy, Papaver rhoeas Several plants have relatives whose reputations are difficult to live down. The Natal Plum is one. Related to the oleander the delicious plum suffers from its deadly...
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Edible Flowers: Part Seventeen
People have written about edible flowers ever since the Romans Black Salsify, Coltsfoot, Yellow Pond Lily, Mexican Hyssop, Carambola, Baobob, Kapok, Durian, Italian Bugloss, Blueweed Black Salsify...
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False Roselle
False Roselle Leaves Are Excellent In Salads and Stir-Fries. Photo by Green Deane I can’t do a stir-fry without visiting a tree. Actually, the False Roselle is a shrub not a tree but the point is...
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Edible Flowers: Part Eighteen
Edible Wild Flowers, Nature's h'orderves Spring Beauty, Chickweed, Alpine Cress, High Bush Cranberry, Columbine, Hyssop, Musk Hyacinth, White Trout Lily, Yellow Adder’s Tongue, Aloe Spring Beauty The...
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Tassel, Musk and Grape Hyacinths
Muscari "Blue star" There are dozens of edible species that are wild in Europe and cultivated or escaped in North America. Three related species with a multitude of names are quite popular in Europe...
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Sea Kale
Sea Kale in seashore gravel Sea kale is nearly the perfect primitive food. It’s difficult to imagine it not being on primitive man’s menu. Sea Kale in Blossom, note four-petals per flower. We know from...
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Edible Flowers: Part Twenty
Edible flowers add color, texture and sometimes flavor to a salad or dish Chinese Perfume Plant, Queensland Silver Wattle, Cloves, Chinese Lotus, Blue Lotus, Screwpine, Turpentine Tree, Sweet Autum...
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Buttercups
Ranunculus abortivus, our local buttercup in Florida. Buttercups are usually considered not edible. In fact, I think they were the first plant I learned not to eat when I was just a few years old. Of...
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Pandanus
Pandanus fruit ripes from green to orange and red. During several visits over the course of a year it looked like a large berm of tall grass, about the size and height of a one-story house. For some...
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Edible Cultivated Flowers
I have written extensively on this site about edible flowers, both cultivated and wild. Here 98 previous separate entries about cultivated flowers are in one spot. So if it seems you have read parts...
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Edible Wild Flowers
I have written extensively on this site about edible flowers, both cultivated and wild. Here 103 previous separate entries about wild flowers are in one spot. So if it seems you have read parts of...
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Language of Flowers
lkjuio A flower is a flower is a flower. But in Victorian England, one of the most self-repressed societies in modern times, the practice of using flowers to communicate was developed. Over time a...
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Bottlebrush Tree
Bottlebrush Tree, photo by Jerry Sortomme, Santa Barbara City College I’m often asked during my classes why I mention many plants that can be used to make tea. There are two answers: One is that...
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Velvet Leaf: Fiber and Food
Abutilon theophrasti, photo by Precision Crop Protection Velvet Leaf is a commercial failure but a successful foreign invader. A flop as a fiber plant and cursed for its infiltration of food crops, it...
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Mahonia Mélange
Leatherleaf Mahonia, photo by Invasive.org When I first heard of the Mahonias it was a bit irritating. They’re widespread shrubs in the western United States and here I was in Florida. But as time...
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American Lotus: Worth Getting Wet For
The lotus is the largest native blossom in North America More American than apple pie Nature fights back. Much of Florida is giving way to housing. For several years I passed a large abandoned pasture...
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Roses
Roses have the classic five petals. Photo by Green Deane I’m not sure I found wild roses or they found me. Growing up in Maine the local soil was usually either ground-up glacial sand or clay which is...
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Watercress: Ancient Flavor
Escaped througout most of North America Florida is the Winter Watercress Capital of the U.S. Leaf shape can vary Nasturtium officinale (nas-STUR-shum oh-fis-in-AY-lee ) is one of the oldest leaf...
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