Friday, June 5, 2009

Action #2

Opuntia cacanapa: edible fruits (prickly pears, higos chumbos, tunas), edible stems (nopales).

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Action #1

Arundo donax: stems used to make reeds for woodwind instruments, blow guns, walking sticks, and to provide cellulose for paper making. Useful but invasive, therefore best grown where it can be looked after rather than be allowed to take over wetlands. Native to southern Eurasia.