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Seminole Wekiva Trail
Seminole Trail at Altamonte Springs Seven-Mile Appetizer The squirrels are in hog heaven, if you’ll pardon the menagerie metaphor. Beautyberry It’s Thanksgiving, 2007, in central Florida and I am...
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Skunk Vine
Skunk Vine's Lavender and White Blossoms Paederia foetida: Much Maligned Skunk Vine Sometimes botanists go a little too far, or at least Carl Linnaeus did when he named a particular vine Paederia...
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Bitter Gourd, Balsam Pear: Pharmacy On A Fence
Bitter Gourd, edible only when green and cooked Bitter Melon, Bitter Gourd, Balsam Pear: Momordica Charantia If the Balsam Pear did not exist a pharmaceutical company would invent it. In fact, there...
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Creeping Cucumber: Melothria Pendula
Green fruit is edible, ripe black fruit is not Cute Cuke! Melothria Pendula The Melothria pendula is a little cucumber with a big reputation. That said, when it comes to the “creeping cucumber” I’m not...
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Edible Flowers: Part Sixteen
There are hundreds of edible flowers Oregon Holly Grape, Snapdragon, Caesar’s Weed, Golden Alexanders, Loroco, Safflower, White Sagebrush, Puget Balsam Root, Yellow Commelina, Bitter Gourd Oregon...
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Edible Wild Flowers
I have written extensively on this site about edible flowers, both cultivated and wild. Here 103 previous separate entries about wild flowers are in one spot. So if it seems you have read parts of...
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