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Kewa acida is one of the eight species currently recognized in the genus Kewa, the sole genus in the family Kewaceae.It is a bushy grey-leaved annual or short-lived perennial plant, with white flowers, endemic to St Helena, where it has been called the "salad plant".
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A salad that originated in and named for the city of Nice and consists of tomatoes, native Nicoise olives, young raw fava beans, young raw artichokes, hard-boiled eggs, radish, green onions, green peppers and garnished with tinned anchovies. It is served with black pepper and olive oil. Olivier salad Russian salad: Russia: Potato and meat salad
Nonetheless, the plant was listed in a decree by Charlemagne as among the 63 pot herbs suitable for growing in gardens. [19] Gillian Riley, author of the Oxford Companion to Italian Food , states that because of its reputation as a sexual stimulant, it was "prudently mixed with lettuce, which was the opposite" (i.e., calming or even soporific).
It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green. In warm conditions it tends to bolt to seed, [3] producing much-branched stems with clusters of flowers. The flowers have a bluish-white corolla of five fused petals, 1.5 to 2 mm (1 ⁄ 16 to 5 ⁄ 64 in) long and wide, and three stamens.
Valeriana woodsiana (synonym Valerianella radiata), common name beaked cornsalad, is a plant native to the United States. [2] It is an annual self pollinating flowering plant and besides being edible there are no known uses. [3] Valerianella radiata flowers from April- May. [4]
A famous rebus statue of Ramses II uses three hieroglyphs to compose his name: Horus (as Ra), for Ra; the child, mes; and the sedge plant (stalk held in left hand), su; the name Ra-mes-su is then formed. [10] Sigmund Freud [11] posited that the rebus was the basis for uncovering the latent content of the dream. He wrote, "A dream is a picture ...
Leaves, used in salads. Sanguisorba minor, the salad burnet, [3] garden burnet, [4] small burnet, [3] burnet (also used for Sanguisorba generally), [citation needed] pimpernelle, [4] Toper's plant, [4] and burnet-bloodwort, [3] is an edible perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae.