#medeola virginiana | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

vandaliatraveler · 2 years

Photo

Photos from a walk in Appalachia’s late summer woods. The flowers of spring have now borne their late summer fruit, fungi rule the forest floor, and the intoxicating perfume of dying ferns fills the air.

From top: the incandescent red berries of partridgeberry (Mitchella repens), which illuminate the forest understory wherever its creeping foliage grows; a gorgeous Pholiota cluster, possibly golden pholiota (Pholiota aurivella); the ripening, spotted berries of false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum), which will turn bright red by October; the luminous orange-red berries of yellow mandarin (Prosartes lanuginosa), also known as yellow fairybells; the deep purple-blue fruit of Indian cucumber-root (Medeola virginiana); common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum), just now fruiting in the local woods; white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima), a deadly beauty infamous for diary poisonings in the 1800′s; and bluestem goldenrod (Solidago caesia), also known as wreath goldenrod, an elegant, shade-tolerant perennial unusual among goldenrods in that its flowers grow from the leaf axils rather than from long panicles at the ends of the stems.

79 notes · View notes

zenasflower · 9 months

Text

Flowers That Make You Feel Loved

Whether you're admiring them in a garden or giving them as a gift, flowers have the power to bring a smile to your face and make you feel loved.

They can also have a positive impact on your mood and stress levels. So next time you're feeling down, why not try adding some beautiful flowers to your home?

Dahlia 'White Perfection'

Dahlia 'White Perfection flowers' is a beautiful Dinner Plate dahlia that produces huge blooms up to 25cm in diameter. It's a fantastic choice for a garden border or patio pots and containers.

This elegant variety features giant flower heads that are crisp white with glowing yellow centres. It would add a wonderful light and vibrancy to any planting scheme.

These dahlias are an excellent addition to a mixed planting of flowers and will look stunning planted alongside lilies or gladioli. They also make an outstanding cut flower that will last up to a week in the vase.

The sheer number of dahlia varieties available means that you're bound to find one to suit your needs. Some are multi-colored, featuring stripes and two-toned petals. Others are chimeras, which feature cells of two different genetic make-ups that are intermixed.

Chives 'Pink Perfection'

Allium schoenoprasum, also known as chives, is a perennial herb with dark green foliage and attractive pale lavender flowers. Both the leaves and flowers are edible and provide a mild onion flavor to dishes.

In spring, chive plants send up hollow flower stalks called scapes. At the end of each scape, a tight lavender bud develops into a blossom.

Garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), also known as Chinese chives, are grown for their mild onion flavor. They are native to China, and have been cultivated as a culinary ingredient for thousands of years.

They can be eaten raw, pickled, deep-fried, or added to dips and spreads. They also add a pop of color and mild onion flavor to baked potatoes, soups, and salads.

They can also be used in omelets, scrambled eggs, stir-fries and noodle dishes. They are also a popular ingredient in Cantonese cuisine. Yellow chives are available yearround, and can be found in markets, grocery stores, and distributors.

Indian Root

The Indian Root (Medeola virginiana) is a native wildflower that blooms in late May and June, depending on the weather. It grows in moist woodlands throughout the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.

The flower is a greenish yellow with brown or purple stripes. In the fall it is replaced by bright red shiny berries that stand out against the leaves.

It is a low growing perennial herb that will grow to a height of 20 to 26 inches. It has three large leaves that grow together at the top of the stem.

The one tier foliage of this plant resembles that of the Starflower, although it has parallel veins rather than pinnate ones. It is a popular herb in Ayurvedic medicine. It is a good source of vitamins A, B, C and potassium. It is also a good source of protein. It should be used sparingly as it can cause nausea and gripping pains in the bowels when consumed in high doses.

Desert Willow

The Desert Willow is an incredibly versatile, easy to grow shrub that can provide color and fragrance in your landscape, as well as wildlife habitat and shade. It also is a natural erosion control plant that grows along ephemeral streams and washes.

It can be planted in almost any garden space, and will thrive even if you live in a very arid zone or have limited water resources. The only thing it needs is water and minimal pruning for a vigorous, low-maintenance, set-it-and-forget-it plant.

It has been a popular landscaping tree for ages and has an extensive collection of named cultivars that vary in flower production, leaf form and branching characteristics. Choose a cultivar that produces blooms in the color and intensity you are looking for.

#Perfection flowers

0 notes

geopsych · 5 years

Text

Indian cucumber root in bloom.

#Medeola virginiana #indian cucumber root

82 notes · View notes

cedar-glade · 3 years

Photo

Backcove embankment, again back coves are sandstone rock shelters that provide humidity doming frequently. They share many of the same life as normal rock shelters with spray cliff communities as well.

Here are a few classics of RRG.

Narrowly distributed to ILP sandstone backcoves and spray cliff communities Thalictrum mirabile or Little Mountain Meadow-Rue

Heuchera parviflora var. puberula, ILP small flowered cave alum root.

Medeola virginiana, while commonplace everywhere in most of Appalachian temperate and mixed forrest, heck even the heath belts have it, it’s also another frequent part of these back cove communities. Indian cucumber. same goes for the Ilex opaca; Asplenium montanum and Cystopteris fragilis appear in this photo set as well.

#thalictrum mirabile #heuchera parviflora var. puberula #thalictrum #heuchera #rrg #red river gorge #botany #plantblr #ecology

24 notes · View notes

howlmountain · 4 years

Photo

Finally identified the “obviously not ginseng” plant growing above the creek next to the cabin. It’s Cucumber root/Medeola (Medeola virginiana) and it has an edible rhizome growing sideways just under the surface of the soil. We’re going to play around with reproducing and spreading this patch before we try to use it for food. It has an interesting method of making 1-3 replacement root nodules and then the main rhizome dies back over the winter, so there should be a way to work with that to wild-propagate them (aka I don’t plan to move them into pots or gardens).

#foraging #native plants #native food sources #Appalachian Mountains

20 notes · View notes

usgsbiml · 4 years

Photo

Medeola virginiana - What pollinates the indian cucumber root? Possibly no one has ever bothered to look. My usual sources of such info came to nothing nor did googlation. My weak logical inference string is that since it is in the lily family and since it is similar looking to native lilies and native lilies often are visited by day flying moths and butterflies that this too might get its pollen moved by a lep. AND!!!!! what is going on with those giant purple stigmata? Probably a world record of some kind. Its not there for nothing and it would be shameful if we didn't know what their uses might be. The only member of its genus, so I think it urgent that we figure this out. Shame. Specimen and photo by Helen Lowe Metzman.

#stigmata #purple #flower #droop #sausage #giants #turncoat #cracker #elephant #cucumber #pickle #nativeplants #pollination #mystery #usgs

85 notes · View notes

mbsposts · 3 years

Photo

20200517 MP243.7 Doughton Park Blue Ridge Parkway NC

Indian Cucumber Root Medeola virginiana

#BRPKY #NC #doughton

0 notes

mmwm · 4 years

Text

Six on Saturday: Not Flowers

Six on Saturday, hosted by The Propagator. This week: colourful “blooms” that aren’t flowers; all photos taken in New Hampshire in the last two weeks.

bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), and a mushroom, like clustered jewels, 24 Oct 2019

Japanese painted fern (Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’) and Rodgersia (Rodgersia aesculifolia) in my garden, 19 Oct. 2019

Indian cucumber root (Medeola virginiana)…

View On WordPress

#blooming foliage #bunchberry #fall colour #fall leaves #ginkgo #indian cucumber root #Japanese painted fern #New Hampshire #non-flowers #sedum #Six on Saturday

0 notes

naturalistinnature · 5 years

Text

6/4/19 - Winchester Fells Reservation

- between 10:42 am and 2:00 pm - 63F, mostly sunny - vernal ponds - phenology of plants and animals - the reservation has three kinds of both pine and hickory

Hickory Nut

Hop-hornbeams of the genus Ostrya

Poison Ivy growing up a tree

Brackens of the genus Pteridium

Dandelions of the genus Taraxacum

Sassafras

Greenbriers of the genus Smilax

Blueberries of the genus Vaccinium

Different Oaks for Different Folks

Three Galls

Of the genus Malacosoma

Poor Man’s Soap

The Beautiful Scenery :)

Winter Firefly or Ellychnia Corrusca

Wintergreens of the genus Chimaphila

More Beautiful Scenery :)

Red Maple or Acer Rubrum

Indian Cucumber Root or Medeola Virginiana

Of the genus Ceratomia

American Chestnut Tree and Leaves or Castanea Dentata

Common Polypody or Polypodium Vulgare

Mountain Laurel or Kalmia Latifolia

Witch-hazel or Hamamelis Virginiana with a Witch-hazel Cone Gall Aphia or Hormaphis Hamamelidis

Leaf roll - something lives inside!

Possibly a Tulip-tree Beauty but not entirely sure

Pink Lady’s Slipper or Cypripedium Acaule

Fungi of the family Strophariaceae

Possibly Diaperis Maculata in a mushroom

Another ladybug type beetle

Birch leaves of the family Betulaceae

Yet another beautiful view :)

Yellow Star Grass or Hypoxis Hirsuta

Pincushion Moss or Laucobryum Glaucum

Common Haircap Moss or Polytrichum Commune

Flowering Greenbriers of the genus Smilax

Big leaf roll!

Wild Sarsaparilla or Aralia Nudicaulis

Wood Thrush or Hylocichla Mustelina

0 notes

hnhero · 6 years

Photo

Indian Cucumber Root (medeola virginiana) at the @greatsmokynps. It was used by Native Americans for food, now it is scarce. #indiancucumberroot #medeolavirginiana #greatsmokymountains (at Great Smoky Mountains National Park)

#indiancucumberroot #greatsmokymountains #medeolavirginiana

0 notes

vandaliatraveler · 2 years

Photo

Although located adjacent to Ohiopyle State Park, Bear Run Nature Reserve gets significantly less tourist foot traffic than its noisy, crowded neighbor, probably due to a lack of beer and funnel cakes within walking distance. It’s a gorgeous place for a hike at any time of the year, but especially in the spring and fall. The reserve is owned and operated by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and includes Frank Lloyd Wright’s triumph of form over function, Fallingwater. Someday, when I can better organize and address the many priorities of my life, I’ll schedule a tour of the revolutionary edifice that chased away Edward Kaufman and his family. Today, however, I settled for a lovely spring hike.

From top: golden ragwort (Packera aurea), perhaps the spring wildflower I miss most when its radiant yellow flowers die back; a pair of wood anemones (Anemone quinquefolia), which often mass impressively at woodland margins; Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), a master colonizer that overtakes fallen stumps and rocks as easily as it does rich, moist soil; Indian cucumber-root (Medeola virginiana), a whorled perennial with an edible root that tastes like . . . you guessed it; and a delicate painted trillium (Trillium undulatum) rising from the moss at the edge of a stream.

42 notes · View notes

vermontwildflowerproject · 7 years

Photo

Medeola virginiana. One of my favorite snacks when I'm hiking in the woods is the root of this delicious Medeola virginiana, also known as Indian cucumber. I only have one a year and I only harvest it if they are in abundance. 💚💛💚 And check out that sweet flower.

#wildwoodarts luciakloster vermontwildflowerproject

0 notes

geopsych · 7 years

Photo