Florida has lots of useful , comestible , and medicative metal money – specially in areas with interracial hardwood forests .
I conducted a property consultation earlier this week and was amazed yet again by how many good thing grow in North / Central Florida .
Dahoon holly , which can be made into a gently caffeinated tea :
American persimmon :
Beautyberry , which repels mosquito and makes a flat yield which can be turned into an excellent jelly :
Wild lettuce , bitter and nutritive - plenteous :
bourtree :
Melothria pendula , a delicious and tiny wild cucumber :
aboriginal passionfruit ( Passiflora incarnata ) with comestible and medicinal leave which legion multiple butterfly stroke species , as well as luscious edible fruit :
Cutleaf groundcherry , with tasty honeyed - lady of pleasure edible fruits inside hanging lanterns :
Smilax , the delectable wild shoot that try out like Asparagus officinales :
Native bay , with foliage cracking for cooking ( though not that pretty at this time of year ):
run into palmetto with edible and medicinal fruit :
Spanish needles ( Bidens alba ) which is a enceinte ambrosia and pollen reservoir for bee , as well as possessing extremely nutritious edible folio :
And red mulberry tree , a wonderful tall species which fruit in the saltation :
If you purchase a Modern property – or wish to know what ’s going on with the dry land you already own – it ’s well - worth charter an expert plant guy to come and see around before you clear or burn . You never know what near specie might already be there , and plant ID apps do n’t quite give you the full picture .
There is solid food everywhere ! Justask Green Deane …
you could also look for the archives here for more info on most of these plants .
And I recommendgetting this Quran :
Andthis book :
Have a howling weekend .
We should fetch up up our nursery today .
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Today ’s musical co-occurrence :
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