Ruscus hypoglossum
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Buds, Shoots, Fruit
The young fattened buds or shoots are boiled and seasoned with oil and lemon, or cooked into scrambled eggs. The fruits are eaten fresh.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. Brisbane Botanical Gardens.
Australia, Canada, Europe, Italy, Mediterranean, North America, Sicily, Slovenia, Turkey, Türkiye,
How to Identify
A temperate shrub in the Asparagaceae family found in botanical gardens.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Ruscus hypoglossum is a small evergreen shrub with a native range from Italy north to Austria and Slovakia and east to Turkey and Crimea. Common names include spineless butcher's-broom, mouse thorn and horse tongue lily. The species name comes from two Greek words ὑπό (hypo) and γλῶσσα (glōssa) meaning under and tongue.
Notes
Also put in the family Ruscaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Aleksandra, Karamut, širokolistna lobodika
References (4)
- Ertug, F, Yenen Bitkiler. Resimli Türkiye Florası -I- Flora of Turkey - Ethnobotany supplement
- http://www.botanic-gardens-ljubljana.com/en/plants
- Kizilarslan, C. & Ozhatay, N., 2012, An ethnobotanical study of the useful and edible plants of İzmit. Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal 16: 134-140, 2012.
- Lentini, F. and Venza, F., 2007, Wild food plants of popular use in Sicily. J Ethnobiol Ethnomedicine. 3: 15
