[Sca-cooks] Plantain, herbals,

[Craig Daniel]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM, otsisto<otsisto at socket.net> wrote:
> Medicinal but mentions plantain
> http://tinyurl.com/mzyh4t

That's probably plantain as in Plantago major or other species in that
genus. It's a different plant, wholly unrelated. You've almost
certainly got some growing in your garden if you live, well, just
about anywhere I've ever been that wasn't in the tropics. It's a
common weed that stays very low to the ground and has broad flat
leaves, and it has spikes that grow up from it that are the flowers
when they are in bloom (they aren't very attractive; they sort of look
like a colored fuzz on the spikes) and thereafter are coated with
seeds. It's got a variety of medicinal uses, and is still the
customary remedy for certain sorts of minor injury including bee
stings in some places.

Plantago and musa aren't the same thing; Plantago is definitely period.

 - Jaume, mka Craig