Description: A picture titled “Russian plants” in a 3 x 3 grid with one of the grid items being Jill Stein, the rest are flora.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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I sat on a stinging nettle a few years ago when I had a mostly outdoor job. Now I am an expert in identifying them.
And yet people eat them.
Imagine the indigenous person hungry enough to figure that out.
That's an interesting question. I can't even imagine it was hunger as even kgs of green leaves won't satiate a family's hunger. Maybe it was an attempt at checking if the plant could cure when cooked? Maybe it was believed that all stinging and poisonous plants had magical properties? Who knows.
It's like rhubarb. It's all poisonous except the stems.
I hate stinging nettles so much.. They're always the first to pop up in spring and ruin an otherwise nice walk in the forest.