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

--
"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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

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

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.

Well, there IS a variegated cress -- Barbarea vulgaris 'Variegata', commonly
known as Winter Cress or Yellow Rocket. I was looking at some photos on the
'net and they all showed the leaves fringed by a white/pale color.

James

In article , "JNJ"
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.

Well, there IS a variegated cress -- Barbarea vulgaris 'Variegata', commonly
known as Winter Cress or Yellow Rocket. I was looking at some photos on the
'net and they all showed the leaves fringed by a white/pale color.

James

That one's leaves are not serrated, & the variegation on my plant are red
& purple, not cream. I don't actually think it's even a cress & was
reluctant to mention what I was told in very broken english about it. I'm
still hoping its identity will be obvious to someone!

-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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

In article , zxcvbob
wrote:

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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

That's water celery. Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo'. Aka Rainbow water
parsley.

elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA


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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

--
"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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

http://www.paghat.com/images/tasty_apr.jpg

In article , "Elizabeth"
wrote:

That's water celery. Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo'. Aka Rainbow water parsley.

elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA

Thank you thank you!
I know it's obsessive, but every time I walked by it, I couldn't help but
wonder "What the heck IS it??? i GOTTA know."

-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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/