Saturday, February 15, 2025

PLANTS, FUNGI AND TORTOISES


 

Kaoutar recognized this plant as mallow, called hbiza in Arabic. People here understand it as a spinach-like edible, and it is delicious in Kaoutar's omlettes! I guess it was either in the bird seed or perhaps it came up as a volunteer.



We have fava bean pods! The other beans we planted all died, 

shaded out by the mustard forest, but the favas in 

one bed that was almost mustard free are producing.



Kaoutar discovered this in one of the small garden beds. It is Blistered Cup Fungus.  While all mushrooms are fungi, not all fungi are mushrooms and that is the case here. Trying to communicate this to Kaoutar is difficult first because we only share bits of our respective languages but also because in French, the word champignon is used for both fungi and mushrooms.


Almost all of the mustard is flowering and the bees love it.



The foliage of the potatoes we have growing is so lush and beautiful-and I see online that the blossoms are going to be gorgeous as well.




This is a succulent that traveled from Essaouira with me this past summer. It has the funny name of "ostrich toe"

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