Tag: flora
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Familiar Flora
As we near the end of our Camino, I’m starting to notice some familiar plants along the Way. The Cabbage Tree (which is endemic to New Zealand) is also known as a Torbay Palm tree in the UK. The growing heart of a cabbage tree is edible and tastes much like (wait for it)… cabbage…
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Galician flora
The past few days have seen very few new flora on the Way. Having entered Galicia we are seeing less fields of grain and instead more cows (and when you can’t see them you can certainly smell them). The Oakmoss has actually been present for ages but I only really noticed it a couple days…
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Post-meseta flora
So many familiar flowers along the Way of late… but also loads of new ones – some completely unexpected. Some Nerium oleander – all three colours! Finally some more edible flora… We haven’t seen the grain fields we saw all along the meseta for a while now. Lots of sweet chestnut trees though! Note the…
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Meseta Flora
The Meseta is over 200km. That’s a lot of plants to walk past and try to identify! I’ve included all the ones that I hadn’t already seen to date. My main criteria is that it has to either look nice, smell nice or be edible. Several are familiar in name – but it’s exciting to…
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Flora to die for
Not everything we see along the Way is edible – obviously! Some of the plants have such obvious names that you’d be a bit of a fool to even play with them! I met a wonderful young man today who informed me that “carrot” is “Karóto” in Greek! Thank you James!
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Stinking Willy
It’s important to embrace your silliness from time to time… and so it is with our discovery of the Tansy Ragwort. The Tansey Ragwort is also commonly known as the Stinking Willy and Stinking Nanny. Not to be confused with the Hog weed!
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Alpine Flora again
For the last couple of days we’ve been walking through some more alpine regions – and this has meant a change in the flora we see on the side of the Way. Many of the flora are familiar, but so many are new as well. The White-rock rose in particular is a replacement for the…
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Still more flora along the Way
Many of the plants we’ve been seeing over the past few days have remained familiar, but new ones keep sprouting up! Here is a quick summary of the “new stuff” that has caught our attention as we walk through La Rioja country. We are still seeing loads of wild seeded (as well as planted) Wheat,…
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They seek him here – they seek him there!
I’ve noticed these pretty red flowers for a few days now. It turns out they are known as scarlet pimpernel. Scarlet pimpernel flowers open only when the sun shines; their habit of closing in dull weather has given the plant the name “poor man’s weather-glass.” Personally I find it easier to just look up at…
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Flora along the Way again
The trails and paths of the Camino are lined with so many plants and species. Some, like wheat and barley are familiar but there are also many that I’ve never even heard of (let alone seen) before! The last time I posted about the Flora on the Way and have decided to keep up the…
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Flora along the Way
Most of the time we stroll by plants at the side of the road and rarely give them a second thought. Today I took the time to focus on some of the familiar and not so familiar plants along the Camino trail. Imagine being able to treat the Camino trail as a larder! So many…