Leek and the Staffordshire Moorlands.
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Leek in Staffordshire, England, is situated on the River Churnet surrounded by the countryside of the Staffordshire Moorland
Leek in Staffordshire, England, is situated on the River Churnet surrounded by the countryside of the Staffordshire Moorland
Macro Mondays - Onion Family
Happy Macro Monday everyone.
Wikipedia says ... Allium triquetrum is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium (onions and garlic) native to the Mediterranean basin. It is known in English as three-cornered leek.
I went round a corner and suddenly saw this: a spooky tree trying to dominate the view while the sun tried to burn through the mist behind.
It's a pano of four frames and I didn't realise until afterwards I shouldn't have gone in so close, and should have left more sky (so I'm told) above the tree and the crow at the top. But in a way I like how the spikey branches reach across the picture. Anyhow, I can't change what I've got. It's tough. I know.
Cobweb House-Leek | Sempervivum arachnoideum | Crassulaceae
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On a back road somewhere on Islay on the road to Sanaigmore art Gallery with my brother heading for a coffee
Rather exotic looking flowers on some sort of House Leek (Sempervivum) at Holehird Gardens. These flowers remind me of some sort of sea anemone!
Another variety of House Leek flowers in the comment below.
Allium tricoccum
These are among the earliest plants to show new leaves in early spring, so it seems odd that the flowers appear in midsummer, long after the foliage has withered. Summer flowering is of course typical of the Alliums.
If you like to eat ramps, please be aware of their conservation status in your locale. They reproduce slowly, so harvesting them to sell is NOT SUSTAINABLE. If you claim to love walking in the wood yet buy or sell ramps for selfish benefit, nature has a special pit of vipers hiding somewhere along your path. Wild leeks are protected in Quebec, but poachers will cross the border to Ontario where ramps can be legally sold. Don't buy. Their conservation status is similarly a problem in a few eastern states.
Quebeckers are allowed to harvest 50 per annum for personal consumption. I know where ramps grow abundantly in my woods, but I will not harvest more than a dozen each spring to eat with special reverence. If you prefer things black and white, I agree it's better to harvest no wild leeks at all.
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Those bright green fat grassy-looking leaves are wild leek, otherwise known in some circles as ramps. Related to garlic and onion, there is a bulb about the size of your thumb growing down in the duff under each plant. They are delicious when sliced and sautéed with fresh morel mushrooms that will be popping up in a couple weeks. Those green leaves can be cut up and used in salads just like chives. Flowers won't form until July after those leaves are long gone.
Leek in flower that until recently had the sheath enclosing the flowers, sitting atop like a wizard hat
Glorious display of leek plants in my friend Katherine's garden, not quite the Egyptian Walking Onion that we had expected to see, but fun all the same...
Bringing a tear to it's mate "spud's" eye.
A slight 'tounge in cheek' take on
Macro Mondays theme 'onion family'.
Discovered this flowering plant in my garden the other day under the boundary hedge. Thanks to my friend Ursula's husband Rudi who kindly looked it up for me on the internet. It is a wild edible flower where the stems are similar in taste to spring onions.
All of the plant is edible. The young plants can be uprooted when found in profusion and treated as baby leeks or spring onion, the leaves and flowers can be used in salads or the leaves in soups or stews, the more mature onion like roots can be used as onion or garlic.All of the plant is edible.
How amazing is that? Not only a beautiful looking flower but edible too. So you can walk by and enjoy it's beautify then have a wee snack on it...lol. I'm in love with this wee plant now...Did a wee bit of creative editing to add some spice to the picture....