Yucca Blossoms: Yes, You Can Eat The Dashing Flowers
Yucca filamentosa , commonly known as yucca, is a flowering evergreen shrub in the asparagaceae family. It is native to the dry, hot regions of West Indies and the Americas. The plant is highly adaptable which has helped it spread to other regions of the world. Yucca is easy to identify due to its unique rosette of lance-shaped, succulent leaves, and large off-white or white blooms. Continue reading [...]
Sesame: An Edible Plant With Herbal Uses
Sesame, benne, or sesame indicum, is a strong-scented, flowering plant commonly cultivated as a food crop. It has dark-green leaves with serrated edges. Benne produces white rose, or light purple, bell-shaped blossoms with pink streaks or spots. The flowers give way to small, sausage-like pods enclosing pear-shaped seeds. Though not very common due to its high-value oil, sesame is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant due to its beautiful blossoms. Continue reading [...]
Beautiful, Spicy and Remedial: Meet The Saffron Crocus Flower
Saffron crocus, or saffron, and botanically known as crocus sativus, is a perennial flowering plant of the crocus genus in the iris family. Its English name, saffron, is derived from a French word, safran. The word was borrowed from the Latin word safranum, which is thought to have originated from an Arabic word that means yellow. Continue reading [...]
Cowslip: The Underused Herbal and Edible Flowering Plant
European cowslip, common cowslip, cowslip, and botanically known as primula veris, is a flowering perennial native to the Northern Hemisphere. It thrives in hedgerows, meadows, and slopes. Continue reading [...]
Mexican Tea for Upset Stomach
Dysphania ambrosioides, commonly known as Mexican tea, wormseed, Jesuit tea, and epazote, is an annual flowering plant that naturally occurs in the tropics and subtropics. Epazote features long and slender dark green leaves with jagged edges. It produces tiny green flowers that give way to thousands of small seeds. Continue reading [...]
Virginia Spring Beauty: For Food, Medicine and Weather Purposes
Claytonia virginica, commonly known as Virginia spring beauty, fairy spud, eastern spring beauty, grass-flower, or just spring beauty, is a low-growing, pretty, perennial wildflower, and delicious vegetable. It is native to North America and thrives in sunny river banks, well-watered woodlands, and thickets. Continue reading [...]