Saturday, 2 December 2023

Plants We Used To Use 109. Common vetch

Common vetch (Vicia sativa) leaves can be eaten raw of cooked. The flowers can be added to salads and the seed pods taste like peas ('poor man's).
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Flowers of Oahu 64. Wikstoemia uva-ursi or Akia

The bark, roots and leaves of this plant release a narcotic that was used to stun fish.

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