#wildedibles
I found these beautiful pink flowers blooming on our beach property.
The tree is Madero Negro and the flowers are edible (!!) and although the leaves are not, they can be used as a natural insecticide when crushed and soaked in water.
The tree is also used as a living fence and is very beneficial as it fixes nitrogen in the soil.
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Foraging for wild edibles on the Northern Pacific coast of Nicaragua.
Shamus was introduced to these two wild edibles near our new home on the beach.
1. Fruto de Papaturro: I haven’t been able to find much information about this fruit online other then that monkeys enjoy them.
2. Tiguilote: known to be anti parasitic among locals and is also known as the clammy cherry tree. The berries are also known as clammy cherries or glue berries, snotty gobbles, pink pearl, fragrant manjack or Indian cherry.
The white gooey inner pulp is traditionally used to make glue and that doesn’t surprise me as they leave a latex-y film on the teeth when eaten.
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White clover (Trifolium repens). Native to Eurasia but introduced here (and lots of other places) as a pasture crop for livestock like cows and honeybees. The leaves are edible and taste like green beans. The flowers are sweeter. White clover doesn’t normally have the estrogenic effect that red clover and some other clovers have.
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Medicinally, it is a safe and gentle antiparasitic that will aid the body in getting rid of tapeworms. They’re not much of an issue where i live now, but are in some places, and i’ve had occasion to use it for this purpose a few times.
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In irish, clover is “seamair” and the diminutive “seamairóg” is where english gets the word “shamrock”
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#wildedibles #herbalmedicine #nature #plants #shamrock #seamair #clover #herbalism #primitiveskills #naturalliving #cestoda #parasites
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