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paghat wrote:
This foot-wide spreading groundcovery clump of foliage is an edible herb,
but which one:
http://www.paghat.com/images/tasty_apr.jpg
The woman I got it from said it's "variegated cress" but I can't find a
garden cress species with such ornate serated leaves. It has an almost
peppery taste.
-paghat the ratgirl
Kinda looks like burnet. But I don't think so because of the
variegated. Hmmm...
Best regards,
Bob
I have a very nice patch of salad burnet (Sansquisorba minor) & it neither
tastes nor looks the same, also it has more of a center to it almost
fernlike in growth habit, whereas this variegated-whatever spreads like a
groundcover. The burnet's leaves ARE serrated, but otherwise almost
perfectly round like little cogwheels, nothing like this alleged "cress."
There's a white-edged variegated burnet nothing like what I have, not even
close, but there are probably many species of burnets I wouldn't recognize
unless they had those fluffy flowers to give them away.
The woman who called it a cress said it was a regular part of her family's
diet in Korea just growing in their yard, & she said it would grow in
swampy places too. I suspected when she called it "cress" that that was
only a rough translation of a Korean name for something similarly
edible-leaf in wet places, but actually a completely different genus. I've
gotten many nice plants from her but she only occasionally knows what they
are, or has common names for them not so common since no one else on earth
seems to use them. Sometimes she pulls down a big pictorial plant book
when I insist on knowing what a plant is, & points at one picture after
another, "Is that the one? Is that? You think is that one?" Probably it
shouldn't matter what something is just so long as it grows nicely, but I
can't help it, I just have to find out what it is.
-paghat the ratgirl
--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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