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Article: Basswood: the ultimate wild salad plant.(Foraging)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Who said that a wild salad had to be made of dandelions? Most of us have heard of common yard and garden weeds being used for salad greens, but one of the best wild salad plants in North America is a tree, the basswood or linden. This tree is either native or grown ornamentally throughout most of the continent. While the wild plants touted for use as salad greens tend to be a little on the strong and bitter side of the spectrum--things you would use to diversify your salad but generally not as the base ingredient--basswood greens do not fit this description. Their flavor is mild and slightly sweet, something you can easily chow down one forkful after another.
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