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blue elderberry can grow as tall as 20 feet but usually only growing to 9. this plant has jagged leaves and this plant was widely used by southern California native americans in a multitude of ways they made flutes, bows, pipes, out of the easy to work with and hollow wood. the berries can make pies, jellies, jams, wines but are toxic if not cooked properly. [[]]http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SANIC5[[]] |
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Star Anise is a spice that closely resembles anise in flavor, which tastes a little like licorice. Anise is a member of the Apiaceae family. Licorice is a member of the Bean (Fabaceae) Family. |
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This is an edible weed, that is like a strong radish. It is a member of the Brassica family. |
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[[]]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruca_vesicaria[[]]
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This photo was taken by the caretaker of the plant, and I can ask for closeups if necessary. |
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It has been popular in Italy since the days of the Roman Empire. However, records indicate this vegetable was unknown in England until a relatively recent few hundred years ago. It has become popular in the United States only since last century. Broccoli has been grown for more than two thousand years. During the 16th century, Broccoli was grown in Italy and France. It began to be commercially grown in the United States in the 1920s. Medicinal Uses: Diuretic, promotes eye vision. Broccoli is kn |
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First brought to the United States from Italy in 1819 It has been introduced into the United States, originally as forage for cattle. It is often used for roadside erosion control, as well as beautification, even though it tends to eliminate all other desirable spring and early-summer species of native vegetation in the area, which it is planted. Food Uses: The seeds can be sprouted and eaten in salads. They can also be dried and ground into a nutritious flour. Dried flower heads are a tea subs |
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Traditional medicinal used among indigenous people, and were also used by early settlers, most notably the Shakers (Austin). Medicinal Uses: Not commonly used as a modern herbal, but the Cherokee and Seminole people used the plant in several ways medicinally including as a tonic for athletes to keep them from tiring (root). Seminole people also used a plant infusion to treat nausea and stomachaches, a decoction to treat urinary tract infections (Austin). The moistened, bruised leaves were used |
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Medicinal Uses: Beeplant leaves may have been crushed and placed on bites from poisonous insects. Some Native Americans boiled the leaves as food as well as to treat stomach aches A poultice is made of the crushed leaves and used to reduce swelling and boiled with a rusty iron to be made into a drink to treat anemia Food Uses: The leaves and flowers were boiled and eaten by the natives of New Mexico and Arizona. Early Spanish Americans made tortillas from the barely palatable but nourishing see |
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Native Americans made a tea from the leaves of spotted horsemint to treat flu, colds, and fever. It increases sweating. Essential oils from horsemint are high in thymol, which is an effective fungicide and bactericide and also used to expel hookworms. Medicinal Uses: Dotted horsemint was used by the Meskwaki to treat colds and catarrh in a mixture with the leaves of Ranunculus delphinifolius and the disk florets of Helenium autumnale. This plant, along with other plants were ground into a powde |
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Medicinal Uses: A root poultice or salve treats skin sores and sprains. A decoction may be used to ease arthritic pain. Yucca Root treats inflammation, joint pain associated with osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis Food Uses: The flowers of many yucca species are edible and used raw in salads or cooked. Those from Adam's needle are said to taste like Belgian endive. Yucca fruit can be cooked and eaten after the seeds are removed; the large petals are used in salads. Other Uses: Yucca leaves |
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Mwdicinal Uses: Used by the Navajo: Compound infusion of plants used as a wash for sore skin Used by Cherokee: Leaves boiled, fried, and often eaten with greens The Lakota Indians used the seeds as an aromatic. Although this plant has a reputation for being sedating, the Iroquois combined it with other herbs to counteract laziness. Roots were chewed and then the paste rubbed on the arms and legs of athletes to give them great strength. The Cherokee made a tea of this plant to drink for obesity, |
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It is well known for its psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. It is used world wide as an entheogen, and supplement to various transcendence practices, including meditation, psychonautics, and psychedelic psychotherapy. Peyote is extremely slow growing. Cultivated specimens grow considerably faster, sometimes taking less than three years to go from seedling to mature flowering adult. More rapid growth can be achieved by grafting Peyote onto mature San Pedro root stock. The top of th |
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First brought to the United States from Italy in 1819 It has been introduced into the United States, originally as forage for cattle. It is often used for roadside erosion control, as well as beautification, even though it tends to eliminate all other desirable spring and early-summer species of native vegetation in the area, which it is planted. Food Uses: The seeds can be sprouted and eaten in salads. They can also be dried and ground into a nutritious flour. Dried flower heads are a tea subs |
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It is a perennial shrub |
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A tea made from the roots is anthelmintic, carminative, diuretic, emetic, strongly laxative, and stomachic. The tea is said to remove tapeworms from the body in one hour. It has also been used in the treatment of asthma, rheumatism, syphilis, and worms and as a heart tonic. An infusion of the roots is used as a strengthening bath for children and adults Unopened flower buds - cooked. Tasting somewhat like peas. They can also be dried and stored for later use. Young shoots - cooked. An asparagu |
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People have used milkweed for fiber, food, and medicine all over the United States and southern Canada. Fibers from the stems of milkweed have been identified in prehistoric textiles in the Pueblo region. Tewa-speaking people of the Rio Grande still make string and rope from these fibers. At Zuni, the silky seed fibers are spun on a hand-held wooden spindle and made into yarn and woven into fabric, especially for dancers. Pueblo people ate green milkweed pods and uncooked roots from one of the s |
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External. It is a common practice among the laity to remove warts by the application of the fresh, milky juice of the plant. Krausi believed it effective in removing small epitheliomata. Internal. As the root possesses tonic, diuretic, and anthelmintic properties it may be used occasionally for the functions indicated. The heart-action is stimulated by it, and it has been suggested as a useful remedy in muscular rheumatoid affections, acting much like macrotys. Constipation is said to be favorab |
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Results of archeological digs indicate that Native Americans may have used Echinacea for more than 400 years to treat infections and wounds and as a general "cure-all." Purple coneflower has a long history of medicinal use. Native Americans used it as an antidote for snake bit and other venomous bites and stings. It was also used in a smoke treatment for headaches. Purple coneflower was used to calm toothaches and sore gums, and tea form it was drunk to treat colds, mumps, arthritis |
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The Hopi have used the crushed roots for a strong laxative and to cure baldness. Yucca is used in childbirth. The roots are soaked in water, the liquid is strained and given to a woman having a long labor. A cupful of yucca suds and sugar is given to the mother to help deliver the afterbirth. This yucca is often called the banana plant by Navajos although the fruit tastes more like a date and is not considered as good to eat as the fruit of the wide leaf yucca. However, the fruit may be roasted |
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Oxeye daisy has moved around the world in a variety of ways. Seeds moved into Sweden with timber and into Ireland as a contaminant of ryegrass and timothy (Holm et al. 1997). It was introduced to the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800’s and spread primarily as a contaminant of forage grass and legume seed. By 1937, it had spread to cover half the counties in the region (Forcella 1985 cited in Holm et al. 1997). The plant continues to move around the region as an ornamental. Although sale/distrib |
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In China and Japan daylilies are used for cancer, arsenic poisoning, as a diuretic, for urinary tract disorders, uterine bleeding, and vaginal yeast infections and as an antibacterial A few flower petals are delicious in a salad. The buds are wonderful if still closed, and should be cooked like any other vegetable. Pick them just before they open, they’re a great taste added into stir fries, or in with snap peas, carrots, or green beans. The best tasting daylily is the early blooming yellow var |
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In colonial America, dried leaves of butterfly weed and skunk cabbage were made into a tea to treat chest inflammations thus giving butterfly weed an alternative name: pleurisy root. Pleurisy root was listed in the American Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary until 1936. The seed pods are edible, cooked when young, harvest them before the seed floss forms. Harvest flowers in bloom, also edible cooked, said to taste like sweet peas. Leaves and new buds are edible cooked like spinach. Native |
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This Rare plant has an odd relationship required for growth...Until recently, botanists believed that Indian Pipes were saprophytes, subsisting on dead or decaying organic material. Recent investigations, however, have revealed that Monotropa uniflora is actually parasitic on a fungus that is in a "mycorrhizal" relationship with a tree. The fungus and the tree are exchanging nutrients in a mutually beneficial relationship; the Indian Pipes have duped the fungus into "believing&quo |
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The Dandelion is one of the few species of flowering plants that has actually lost it's ability to mate. It sends out and receives pollen, but it is unused. The flower reproduces asexually creating an exact copy of the original. This is called Apomixis. How can a flower be so successful that can't even diversify quickly anymore? The reason is mainly because of the system of dispersal. The little parachutes created to transport the seeds are so effective that it no longer matters if the environme |
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