Tag: plants
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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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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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Deadly Flora
As we approached San Anton I noticed a unique plant that I’d not seen on our walk to date. Henbane causes loss of muscular control, dilation of the pupils, heart palpitation, hallucinations, delirium and in large doses, coma, and death. I marvelled at the beauty of its flowers – but didn’t investigate closer!
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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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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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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…