 Hypericum
perforatum
eng: St. John’s worth
deutch: Johanniskraut
This famous healing plant starts flourishing in the middle of May. You can
make a beverage or put it in a little bottle with olive oil. Several weeks
later, you’ll have an excellent ointment for wounds.
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 Bellis
perennis
eng: Common Daisy
deutch: Gänseblümchen
This modest little plant can be found on high leveled fields (these are found
near Castro). We picked its flowers and ate them in salads.
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 Sedum
hispanicum
eng: Orpine
deutch: Mauerpfeffer
This little succulent plant grows on sunny rocks and stony walls. In old times
it was even cultivated as an edible, healing, and decorating plant. This
lovely one grows on a wall in Maries.
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 Sempervivum
tectorum
eng: Mouse-leck
deutch: Hauswurz
I couldn’t help taking photo of this beautiful scene on a garden wall
in Theologos. This plant is used for soothing inflammations, and also it is
believed that it guards he house. There is a saying: It is better to have a
mouse leck on the roof then to have a dog in the frontyard.
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 Rosa
canina
eng: Wild rose
deutch: Hunds rose
There are not many shrubs of wild roses on Thasos, but occasionally some beautiful
ones can be seen along the water streams. Greeks use their petals (and
petals of smelling domesticated species) to make sweets. This rose is planted
by a wall in Laminaria.
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 Vitis
vinifera
eng: Grape vine
deutch: Weinrebe
Athenaeus (170-230 AD) wrote that in his times the best wines were produced
on the isles of Thassos, Samos, Chios and Crete. Nowadays, the olives are
farmed where sometimes the vineyards were, but local people still have
some vines for their own needs. This photo is taken in the village of Theologos.
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 Crithmum
maritimum
eng:
deutch: Meerdolde
This plant grows on the rocks near the sea. It has a strong taste, but its
young leaves, when cooked, are excellent with potatoes, garlic and olive
oil.
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 Urtica
urens
eng: Nettle
deutch: Brennessel
The nettle grows mainly by the olive trees, probably because they were fertilized,
but can be seen, in less quantities, on other places as well. Hesiod wrote
that this plant protects from all annual ailments. We loved it in soups
and stews.
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