A young Nettle starting its live on a wall, between the stones.
nettle tea
This tea has little taste of its own, for that reason
it is often mixed with mint leaves green tea and lemon.
Use only young leaves and watch if the don't contain
snails and so on. If you add lemon the tea suddenly
chance of color, nice to watch.
Stinging nettle
A well known perennial plant of fields and woods, It grows fastest
on grounds that are moist and fertile. They can grow as high as 4 meter,
the size tends to vary depending on the amount of light and moisture.
Where you find the stinging nettle you will also find Giant hogweed and common hogweed.
Flowering
Small flowers can be found in summertime, they attract a lot of bees
But the Stinging nettle also spread mostly by using it rhizomes
Stinging
If you brushes by the plant and it touches their skin, the tiny hollow
hairs break off and release an poison which irritates the skin and
causes white itchy spots. Most people have thar itching sensation for
about one hour.
Nettles(6) (urtica dioica) Large black sludge(1)(arion empiricorum or arion ater)
Hyles (Deilephila) euphorbiae (2) with caterpillar(3)(Deilephila euphorbiae) common tansy tanacetum vulgare,
Henbane(5)(Hyosciamus niger), Cypress spurge (1) (Euphorbia cyparissias) White Deadnettle (8)(Lamium album).
Enemies of the stinging nettle
Goats love the leaves , just like the catarpillar of the Peacock butterfly.
herbal tea, tisane, or ptisan
Tea made from herbs is called Tisane.
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