yum control is eating and planting if the water has bio challenge cook it lucky , wonderful plant for raw or cooked my patch has been planted 8 years on a public land drain with gritstone springs |
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dpack |
ps flukes are only found under water so the standing proud in the air leaves should be fine
pps nowt multicellular likes a boiling but with a lid on the vit c will be undegraded and any worms will cook cooked the mineral content is more digestable one of my favourite plants |
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Treacodactyl |
There are a couple of other plants that look quite like watercress, at least to me, so I'd confirm the id by squashing a bit and smelling, does it smell mustardy and like cress? | ||||||||||
anoia |
My apologies for a hit and run posting, but it doesn't look like watercress to me - the leaves are opposite each other not alternate, and I'd expect the leaf stalks to be longer with little leaves on.
It might be Brooklime? Veronica beccabunga (wasn't she something to do with Berlusconi?), but I've not tried eating it, though a fast google suggests it might be edible. It will have blue flowers later if it is - possibly also if it isn't of course! Fiona |
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cab |
Brooklime would be my first thought too. | ||||||||||
bubble |
brooklime is what it is ,Veronica beccubunga, it will have small blue flowers ,like watercress it can be eaten ,but has a bitter taste. | ||||||||||
cab |
And the same concern re. liver flukes applies. When raw its not all that nice, when cooked its bleeding horrible | ||||||||||
Lorrainelovesplants |
dont look like watercress to me...I was thinking frogbit or the like...looks too 'meaty'. | ||||||||||
hots |
We call it duckweed although that's not it's real name, nor is it actually duckweed!
Don't eat it (as if you would). We have lots of it in our pond, mainly round the edges, quite easy to pull up and ducks like to eat it. Get some ducks if you want to be rid of it. |