Samphire Dry leaves Crithmum maritimum
LATIN NAME: Crithmum maritimum
COMMON NAME: Rock Samphire
On the sea cliffs of the Atlantic coast, the rock samphire grows where few plants dare. The low, tufted, evergreen perennial carries the thick, fleshy, blue-green leaves with the fine, salty scent of the shore, and the small, yellow-green flowers open in the flat, umbel-like heads through the summer. The plant has a very long record of use in the kitchens of the coast, where the fleshy leaves were gathered, pickled and eaten with the fish and the meats. It is a plant of the open, sunny, sharply drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The rock samphire is an odd and interesting subject of the studies of the fleshy, blue-green leaves and the plants of the salt coast. The way the plant holds its own in the spray and the rock crevices has been looked at closely, and it keeps showing up in the work on the coastal plants, the halophytes and the members of the carrot family. The small, yellow-green flowers in the flat heads and the low, tufted habit have also made it a fine garden plant, and the rock samphire is a regular figure in the studies of the old coastal vegetables and the plants of the shore.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The rock samphire is a plant of the sea edge with a long list of uses. The thick, fleshy leaves have a very long record of use in the kitchens of the coast, pickled and served with the fish and the meats, and the plant is one of the fine, forgotten vegetables of the old shore. The low, tufted, blue-green mounds are also a fine, tough ornament of the sunny rockery, the wall and the gravel garden, keeping their good looks through the year. It has been written up in the culinary and the botanical papers for the old pickling uses and the tough coastal ways, and it is a fine, easy plant of the open, sunny, sharply drained garden.
The rock samphire is one of the fine, forgotten vegetables of the old shore, and the thick, fleshy, blue-green leaves were gathered, pickled and served with the fish and the meats of the coast. The low, tufted mounds are also a fine, tough ornament of the sunny rockery, the wall and the gravel garden.
To grow the rock samphire from seed, sow the fine seeds over the surface of pots of moist soil with a pinch of sea salt, pressing them in lightly, keep the pots in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings show themselves within a few weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the sharp-draining ground, the fleshy, blue-green tufts will thicken through the years.
Dry leaves
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