Usually I weed whip around this scarred up white oak on the outskirts of my lawn. This year I did not. Look what i just discovered growing at the base.
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Is that false Solomon's seal?
Pretty, yup I think red is false :)
I get something like that with blue berries. So I have the real ones? :D
Yes, I think they are both medicinals but yours is the one that is sought after.
You see alot of those plants in my area , anyone know what there called ?
Mine is a false Solomon's seal.
ok what does it do what is it used for ??? ??? :)
whats the benefit of them for medicine
I had to google, I just knew they were medicinals but didn't know what for... you're almost always safe with herbs saying "for female complaints". We must try anything for a complaining female :D
False Solomons Seal;
http://www.psu.edu/dept/nkbiology/naturetrail/speciespages/false_solomon%27s_seal.html
Solomons Seal;
https://solomonsseal.wordpress.com/category/how-to-use-solomons-seal/page/2/
I noticed they are related to Lilly of the Valley, we had a buyer through a few years ago that wanted us to plant that for herbal remedies. Another medicinal aside, Michelle just finished flagging 300 black cohosh plants in the woods for harvest, she'll flag another 100 before the tops die back and then go harvest in a month or so, snapping off a node and replanting that to start the replacements. All of our 'sang had been poached years ago but a bird or the seed bank must have produced one. That is the big money root but it is hard to protect from poachers. I like to just know there are a few plants carrying on.
Quote from: Don P on September 09, 2017, 06:01:20 PM
We must try anything for a complaining female :D
....(steps in, clears throat)...
:D :D :-X
:D :D
On the road looking for elder berries,to use for jam,I saw a bunch of false Solomon's seal.It was on a dirt road. If I would not of seen this post I would of missed them. Saw about 10-12 and I bet there was more.
Apparently Roxie saw this post too :-X :D
we talked to some guys from MO that were going great guns with elderberries... google... here they are;
http://shop.riverhillsharvest.com/
They were looking for more growers a year or two ago.
We used to have a place where we could pick bushels of elderberries (un-cleaned). We picked there for years. Then one late August, we went to check the crop, and that summer they had widened the old gravel road and prepaired it for paving and completely obliterated the couple of hundred yard long patch that ran along the ditch.