can anyone identify this plant?

[Norma Rosa]

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velo de novia

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by reese_in_va

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Anyone recognize this?

Catalana (en El Cibao)

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by reese_in_va

New plant:

This plant is also widely distibuted in the DR.



It has just finished it's flowering stage and I have pruned it heavily. There were many little burgandy globes/ seeds (?) that extended off of one independent stem. At a closer look you can see the last flowers at upper right hand side.
Anyone know what this is?

Croto (en el Cibao)

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by elton

can anyone identify this plant

Lirio (Cibao)

[Texas Bill]

My wife, Margarita, identifies this plant(the first one in the OP) as "Cardo Santo" and said it is a medicinal plant good for infections and lower abdominal problems.
Check with a doctor before making use of it, however. You could be using it for something it isn't good for.

Texas Bill

[Texas Bill]

Originally Posted by reese_in_va

Great info Norma thank you. I understand Columbus brought them over to the Caribbean, at least this is what I was told. I can't wait to get the fruit from these prickly pears, my wife is going crazy over the fact that we have had these for years in Sosua, but no fruit. Now that we have the ranch in the campo , I have spent over a year and a half developing incredible soil, plants are/ have changed. Everything is so lush and plants are flowering, which never flowered before. My wife just loves fico d'india. I can see myself very busy in the next week propagating these plants for her
Thanks every one!

Just break off a leaf, ot 2, and plant them. Not too much water. In a yeaar or so, you'll have so many you'll be digging them up as a "pest plant". Texs Ranchers burn off the thorns and let the cattle eat them during times of drought.

Texas Bill

[joerusso]

Originally Posted by Norma Rosa

I think it is cardo santo.

Yes you are correct and my wife tells me you can make tea with the leaves. She is not sure if its good when you have the runs or stomach ache etc, but it helps many things. keep them!

[Norma Rosa]

Originally Posted by joerusso

Yes you are correct and my wife tells me you can make tea with the leaves. She is not sure if its good when you have the runs or stomach ache etc, but it helps many things. keep them!

My 93 year-old mother tells me that the tea is good for the treatment of sore throat.

[chibani]

Can anyone identifiy some of the following frutes?
All of them from or near Bayahibe.

[M.A.R.]

hahaha well i don't think its a fruit but a "higuero' used to make the 'maracas' and 'guiro' . Can't remember or am not sure what this plant is called in english.

In the DR campos the folks would make 'una jiguera' to fetch water sort of a bowl to also use to pour water in the bath, or the ones with the long neck were used to carry water to the 'conuco' fields. They grow in different sizes and shapes.

My aunts would take one of those round 'fruits' and cut them carefully in two, for two bowls, scrape all the meat out of them and let them dry before using them as bowls.