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Dandelion - The Weed We Love to Hate
... with hops in the making of beer, and even today, a pale amber wine is made from dandelion flowers. Also, during times of coffee scarcity, roots of the plant have been collected, toasted and ground for use as a coffee substitute similar to that made from chicory. Still, with such a remarkable list of uses, the only thing most of us usually want ...
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Witloof, Commercial Vegetable Production Guides, North Willamette Research and Extension Center
... heads or buds). Other synonyms are White Endive and Dutch chicory. Another type of chicory, whose dried roots are used as a coffee substitute, is Magdeburgh or Italian Dandelion. Tops may also be used in cooking like spinach. The field production phase of both these types may be handled similarly. Recently, chicory root is being considered as a natural source of ...
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Sugar Cane, Pineapple, Coffee & Morinda
... Noteworthy Plants Trivia Lemnaceae Biology 101 Botany Search Economic Plant Photographs #15 Sugar Cane, Pineapple, Coffee, Tea & Morinda Grass Family (Poaceae) Sugar cane is a tall, perennial grass originally native to ... sinensis. Apparently, the cured leaves of the garden camellia can be used as a tea substitute, but the staff at Wayne's Word have never tried this. An assortment of ornamental ...
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Trees of Reed: Thornless Honeylocust
... turn brown as they age. The seeds inside the pods look like beans and can actually be roasted and used as a coffee substitute. The trunk and lower branches of the wild honeylocust are covered with sharp, thick thorns, but most buyers purchase a thornless variety sold under the name Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ("inermis" means unarmed). Interestingly, most ...
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Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary -- D
... fare badly in the lowland tropics, but do better in the cooler parts of Central America. Parched carrots have served as a coffee substitute. The seeds have considered aphrodisiac and nervine. DAVILLA sp. Bejuco tome (C) . This species is a source of water and cordage used to tie bohios together. Dayflower: Commelina (E) Dedos de plata: Celosia (C) DEMULCENT: ...
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Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary -- H
... ; Vara blanca (CR). the fruit are edible. The leaves are used to make a tea or coffee substitute, and to flavor contraband liquor in Colombia. An infusion of the bark is believed febrifugal, ... are eaten iin Africa. Uala Cuna toast the red fruits to make a coffee-like beverage. The name cabitutu translates to coffee flower. HIBISCUS SCHIZOPETALUS Hook. Arana (C); Canastilla (C); Paraguita china (P); ...
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Texas Ebony
... In Mexico, the seeds from these pods are eaten, and the black woody shells have been known to be roasted as a coffee substitute in times past. The attractive, shorttrunk of Texas Ebony is covered with smooth, grey bark. It makes a nice medium-sized shade tree. The literature uses two slightly different names for this species: Pithecolobium or Pithecellobium which ...
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New Orchid Display Greenhouse - Devonian Botanic Garden
... been found for the pods (laxative and demulcent qualities). Seeds have even been roasted as a coffee substitute. Thorn apples, Datura spp. can be seen with their lovely upturned flowers, along with ... the abour. Peppers, celery and tomatoes will also be found in the greenhouse, as will coffee plants, several bamboos, an avocado tree, Persicaa americana, the pygmy date palm, Phoenix roebelenii, a ...
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ECSONG: The Nuttery: 18(3) 1999
... choose which of all the pictures is most interesting, and it will be put onto the ECSONG website! Coffee and other refreshments will be available. Why not make your favourite nut goodies, and bring some along for ... stratification. If I can figure out how to get the others down, perhaps I can roast my own coffee substitute on the fire. I can see it now: a chain of Kentucky Koffee Houses, a sort of ...
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Gymnocladus dioicus, Kentucky coffee tree
... Kentucky coffee tree Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch Family: Fabaceae/Caesalpiniaceae (legume) Common name: Kentucky coffee tree Tree to 18 m (60 ft) tall and 50 cm (20 in) diameter. Bark thick, gray, rough, ... Kentucky. The raw seeds are somewhat poisonous, but they are said to make a tolerable substitute for coffee if roasted. The seeds are called hully-gullies and are carried as good luck charms ...
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