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Ram 's horn, Devil 's claw, Proboscidea louisianica ...#11
Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
The same plant.
Taken on July 28, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America.
Vietnamese named : Ngà voi, Vuốt quỷ.
Common names : Devil's Claw, Unicorn Plant, Ram's Horn , Proboscis flower.
Scientist name : Proboscidea louisianica (Mill.) Thell.
Synonyms :
Family : Pedaliaceae – Sesame family
Group : Dicot
Duration : Annual
Growth Habit : Forb/herb
Kingdom : Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Scrophulariales
Genus :Proboscidea Schmidel – unicorn-plant
Species :Proboscidea louisianica (Mill.) Thell. – ram's horn
**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PRLO
**** www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Proboscidea+louisi...
**** columbus-cactus-club.webs.com/Proboscidea louisianica.htm
**** waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0801.htm#Indians : Click on link to read more, please.
Devil's Claws Used By Native Americans Of The S.W. United States
Perhaps the most fascinating thing about devil's claw plants are the curious seed pods. When they hang in clusters on the branches the green, fleshy fruits resemble bean pods or okra. They are cultivated in gardens of Native Americans throughout the southwest and are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The nutritious dried seeds are rich in oil and protein and can be shelled and eaten. Sometimes the oily seeds are used to polish ollas. I found the cooked fruits quite bitter, but perhaps I didn't prepare them in the right way or use enough seasoning. In some parts of the United States they are grown and pickled like cucumbers and okra, either alone or with other vegetables. .....
**** waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0801.htm : Click on link to read more, please.
The devil's claw fruit is technically a drupaceous capsule with a woody inner part surrounded by a fleshy layer. The rather sinister common name of "devil's claw" refers to the inner woody capsule which splits open at one end into two curved horns or claws. Each capsule contains about 40 black seeds which are gradually released when the claws split apart. They are also called "elephant tusks" and readily cling to the hooves of grazing animals or your shoes if you happen to step on them. In some areas of the southwestern United States they are a nuisance to sheep ranchers because they get entangled in the fleece. In his fascinating book, Plants and Planet (1974), Anthony Huxley (son of Julian Huxley) eloquently describes the hitchhiking pods as "hookers." The fresh green pods (and dried black seed capsules) were important items in the cultures of many Native American tribes of the southwestern United States, and are still used to this day for food and in basketry. The plant is also known as "unicorn plant," referring to the large, hornlike fruit before is has split open.
**** www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PRLO
Ram’s-horn or devil’s claw is a low, spreading, bushy plant, 1-2 ft. tall, with large, long-stemmed, palmately lobed leaves. Leaves, 5-inches across and up to 1 foot long, covered with glandular nectar which often collects sand particles. Its creamy-yellow, tubular, five-lobed flowers are spotted with purple and appear in few-flowered, axillary clusters after summer rains. The fruit is a fleshy, curved pod that splits into two claws when it dries.
The name unicorn plant refers to the remarkable fruits. These are at first fleshy, the flesh later falling away, leaving an inner woody shell tipped by a long, curved beak (the horn of the unicorn). The beak splits lengthwise, and the shell opens between the two parts of the split beak. These fruits are easily caught on the legs of deer, rabbits, and cattle or hooked in the wool of sheep by their spreading claws (thus the name devils claw). The fruits are collected and used in nature crafts.
Bloom Color: White , Pink , Yellow , Purple
BENEFIT
Use Ornamental: The fruits are collected and used in nature crafts.
Use Food: This plant is often cultivated for the fruit, which is pickled and eaten like okra.
Ram 's horn, Devil 's claw, Proboscidea louisianica ...#7
Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
The same plant, now bearing fruits.
This plant is often cultivated for the fruit, which is pickled and eaten like okra ( NPIN.)
Taken on July 28, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America.
Vietnamese named : Ngà voi, Vuốt quỷ.
Common names : Devil's Claw, Unicorn Plant, Ram's Horn , Proboscis flower.
Scientist name : Proboscidea louisianica (Mill.) Thell.
Synonyms :
Family : Pedaliaceae – Sesame family
Group : Dicot
Duration : Annual
Growth Habit : Forb/herb
Kingdom : Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Scrophulariales
Genus :Proboscidea Schmidel – unicorn-plant
Species :Proboscidea louisianica (Mill.) Thell. – ram's horn
**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PRLO
**** www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Proboscidea+louisi...
**** columbus-cactus-club.webs.com/Proboscidea louisianica.htm
**** waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0801.htm#Indians : Click on link to read more, please.
Devil's Claws Used By Native Americans Of The S.W. United States
Perhaps the most fascinating thing about devil's claw plants are the curious seed pods. When they hang in clusters on the branches the green, fleshy fruits resemble bean pods or okra. They are cultivated in gardens of Native Americans throughout the southwest and are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The nutritious dried seeds are rich in oil and protein and can be shelled and eaten. Sometimes the oily seeds are used to polish ollas. I found the cooked fruits quite bitter, but perhaps I didn't prepare them in the right way or use enough seasoning. In some parts of the United States they are grown and pickled like cucumbers and okra, either alone or with other vegetables. .....
**** waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0801.htm : Click on link to read more, please.
The devil's claw fruit is technically a drupaceous capsule with a woody inner part surrounded by a fleshy layer. The rather sinister common name of "devil's claw" refers to the inner woody capsule which splits open at one end into two curved horns or claws. Each capsule contains about 40 black seeds which are gradually released when the claws split apart. They are also called "elephant tusks" and readily cling to the hooves of grazing animals or your shoes if you happen to step on them. In some areas of the southwestern United States they are a nuisance to sheep ranchers because they get entangled in the fleece. In his fascinating book, Plants and Planet (1974), Anthony Huxley (son of Julian Huxley) eloquently describes the hitchhiking pods as "hookers." The fresh green pods (and dried black seed capsules) were important items in the cultures of many Native American tribes of the southwestern United States, and are still used to this day for food and in basketry. The plant is also known as "unicorn plant," referring to the large, hornlike fruit before is has split open.
**** www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PRLO
Ram’s-horn or devil’s claw is a low, spreading, bushy plant, 1-2 ft. tall, with large, long-stemmed, palmately lobed leaves. Leaves, 5-inches across and up to 1 foot long, covered with glandular nectar which often collects sand particles. Its creamy-yellow, tubular, five-lobed flowers are spotted with purple and appear in few-flowered, axillary clusters after summer rains. The fruit is a fleshy, curved pod that splits into two claws when it dries.
The name unicorn plant refers to the remarkable fruits. These are at first fleshy, the flesh later falling away, leaving an inner woody shell tipped by a long, curved beak (the horn of the unicorn). The beak splits lengthwise, and the shell opens between the two parts of the split beak. These fruits are easily caught on the legs of deer, rabbits, and cattle or hooked in the wool of sheep by their spreading claws (thus the name devils claw). The fruits are collected and used in nature crafts.
Bloom Color: White , Pink , Yellow , Purple
BENEFIT
Use Ornamental: The fruits are collected and used in nature crafts.
Use Food: This plant is often cultivated for the fruit, which is pickled and eaten like okra.
Growing wheat field, springtime green. Invigorating body, mind and soul. Hopefully not ( yet ) Triticum Monte Santum !!! Who knows ?
Image by artist in doing nothing
Why Does Monsanto Always Win?
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat
Wheat (Triticum spp.)[1] is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East and Ethiopian Highlands, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (784 million tons) and rice (651 million tons).[2] In 2009, world production of wheat was 682 million tons, making it the second most-produced cereal after maize (817 million tons), and with rice as close third (679 million tons).[3]
Wheat is grown on more land area than any other commercial crop and is the most important staple food for humans. World trade in wheat is greater than for all other crops combined.[4] Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food, having a higher protein content than either maize (corn) or rice, the other major cereals. In terms of total production tonnages used for food, it is currently second to rice as the main human food crop and ahead of maize, after allowing for maize's more extensive use in animal feeds.
Wheat wa... ( continue on Wikipedia )
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Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence: The Wheat Field.
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And please, do find out that wheat flour is not at all as good for your health as they are trying to convince you. With all that starch and gluten etc. ... Starch is good as glue for wall carpets. OK, I also consume a lot of gluten in seitan ***, ... search, search ...
Combination of wheat based (and processed) food and dairy products, especially UHT milk (a pure dead chemical) is the main and the best mixture in Nutricide project.
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*** From Google Dictionary:
sei·tan Noun /ˈsāˌtan/
A high-protein vegetarian food made from cooked wheat gluten
Web definitions
Wheat gluten, also called seitan , wheat meat, Mock Duck, gluten meat, or simply gluten, is a food made from the gluten of wheat. It is made by washing wheat flour dough with water until all the starch dissolves, leaving insoluble gluten as an elastic mass which is then cooked before being eaten.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitan
wheat gluten cooked in broth. Seitan is used as a meat substitute and is exceptional in stews.
macrobiotic.about.com/od/gettingstarted/a/MacroGlossary.htm
... and a lot more, just look at Google Dictionary as starting point and go forth. If you are interested, if not just eat your sammich.
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The Bitter Seeds of Monsanto's Legacy: Debt, Death, and Global Destruction
By Dr. Mercola
Bitter Seeds is the last film in the Trilogy produced by Teddy Bear Films. The first two, Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town, and China Blue were released in 2001 and 2005 respectively. So far, the films have won 20 international awards, aired on over 30 television channels and screened in more than 100 film festivals.
articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/27/bi...
Story at-a-glance
Bitter Seeds looks at the beginning of the consumer goods’ supply chain – the raw materials – shedding much-needed light on the crisis created by Monsanto’s genetically engineered Bt cotton
Buried in debt and struggling against the rising cost of GE seeds and the chemicals required, combined with failing yields and GE-created super weeds and resistant pests, one Indian farmer now commits suicide every 30 minutes. One-quarter million farmers have been driven to suicide by Monsanto’s false promises and ruthless global monopolization tactics
Bitter Seeds raises critical questions about the human cost of genetically modified agriculture and the future of how we grow our food and other essential crops
The film couldn’t be more timely, as California stands poised to vote on Proposition 37, which would require genetically engineered foods to be labeled, on November 6
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I am quite sure you don't know all of the following:
can-eating-this-common-grain-cause-psychiatric-problems ...
search.mercola.com/search/pages/Results.aspx?k=gluten + intolerance ...
search.mercola.com/search/pages/results.aspx?k=gluten + autism...
search.mercola.com/search/pages/results.aspx?k=gluten + psoriasis...
... excerpt ...
First, Address Your Diet and Food Allergies
Food allergies play a primary role in eczema. In my experience, the most common offending agent is wheat, or more specifically, gluten. Avoiding wheat and other gluten-containing grains is therefore a wise first step.
If you were to visit my clinic outside of Chicago as a new patient, one of the first steps we would advise would be to go on a gluten-free diet for a number of weeks and carefully observe any health improvements. This is an enormously common problem and many of our patients are surprised to find how much improvement they actually achieve from this step.
Avoiding grains will also reduce the amount of sugar in your system, which will normalize your insulin levels and reduce any and all inflammatory conditions you may have, including inflammation in your skin.
Other common allergens include milk and eggs. I recommend you do an elimination trial with these foods as well. You should see some improvement in about a week, sometimes less, after eliminating them from your diet if either of them is causing you trouble.
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