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Angelica might be the first cultivated plant in the northern part of the Nordic countries, and it is considered to be the only native plant originating from this region that has been incorporated in international horticulture and trade of cultivated...
If somebody, some 25 years ago, had said that we in the Nordic countries would become large consumers of rocket, it probably would have raised deep suspicion and distrust. “Rocket?” you wonder. It sounds a bit more like a super-sweet...
Text by Jens Weibull, top photo by Peter Henriksson. ” − The reason for the Swedish name hundäxing is said to be that the dogs, when they want to vomit, chew especially this grass, whose rough leaves easily achieve the...
(Swedish: vårvicker; Norwegian: vårvikke; Finnish: nätkelmävirna; Danish: vår-vikke) Text by Heli Fitzgerald. Top photo: Vicia lathyroides (Image: Saxifraga-Ed Stikvoort) Vicia lathyroides, spring vetch, is a small, annual herb in the bean family with double-leafed leaves and red-violet flowers. Its...
Text and photos by Stein Harald Hjeltnes Plums are among the most variable and beautiful fruits (Hedrick, 1911), and several different botanical classification and ways of grouping the fruit based on the fruit appearance and taste have been applied. Additionally, local names are not always in accordance...
Text by Anna Palmé Chives are one of several onion species used in the Nordic kitchen and they can be found both as wild and cultivated forms. It is a popular herb, perhaps due to its mild onion taste, and it is used in a wide variety of dishes such as potato...
Text by Åsmund Asdal and photos by Finn Måge. The strawberry (Fragaria sp.) is one of the most popular berries on Nordic tables. The wild strawberries have been harvested in the wild and highly appreciated for centuries, not only for the sweet taste, but as a cure for illnesses. Cultivation of large...
Text: Jens Weibull Alsike is a small and unnoticed village about 20 km southeast of Uppsala, Sweden, but it has left its contribution to history through a clover species that Carolus Linnaeus found here. He called it ’hybridum’ because he saw it as a hybrid between red clover and white clover....
Text by Heli Fitzgerald European crab apple is a small and thorny, native wild tree, which is distributed over most of the European countries, including all the Nordic countries except Iceland. Its scientific name, Malus sylvestris, means ”forest apple”. It is found growing as single individuals or in small groups in forest edges, thickets, hedgerows or roadsides. Crab apple is...
Blackberries are exiting plants, both for botanists and ecologists and for berry-pickers who enjoy the sweet and mild taste of the black delicacy, which sometimes can be a struggle to harvest, due to the very sharp thorns that most black berry plants...
