Re: Childhood plant memories

What a way to bring up old and almost forgotten memories!

I grew up in south Louisiana which is nearly covered in sugar cane fields. One of my best plant memories is cutting a few stalks of sugar cane, peeling them, slicing them up and then chewing on them for hours to extract the sweet liquid. No candy could match the sweetness of sugar cane. Also ...... china berries made perfect ammunition for sling shots, honey suckle was every kid's favourite for its sweet nectar, thistles were peeled and soaked in vinegar for salads and the woods were full of a vine which produced a fruit that we called May Pops and blackberries which my mother used to make Blackberry Dumplings.

Richard La Rose
Girona, Spain
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----- Original Message ----- From: "N Sterman" <TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: Childhood plant memories


Hi Jan,

I remember being a very small child - four or younger - and painting my face and my brothers' face with squished berries of the Eugenia. They made a really great raspberry colored "paint" that stayed for days.

We also piled the berries into pie tins and pretended they were pie.

Hadn't thought about that in years...

N














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