Re: Rumex
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- Subject: Re: Rumex
- From: a*
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:39:12 +0100
Kemberly, There is a coarser-leaved relation of edible sorrels (same family,
polygonaceae): R. obtusifolius, the broad Dock, which grows wild in Britain
and N. America. The Rev. W. Keble Martin's "Concise British Flora in
Colour", paintings and drawings of British wild flowers, a life-time's work
and all drawn from nature with great care, names R. sanguineus as Red-veined
Dock. It isn't mentioned as edible, but the Broad Dock leaves are a
possible potherb, though bitter and anything but delicious. All these
sorrels have traditional country uses, for poultices, reducing
inflammation - remember rubbing nettle stings with the nearest dock-leaf? -
also wool-dyes. If yours is that Dock, nil by mouth is my guess! Avril.
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