Oyster Plant
Oyster plant is a common name used for various flowering plants, including: *''Acanthus mollis'', (also called bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean *''Mertensia maritima'' (also called oysterleaf), native to Europe and North America with leaves said to taste like oysters *''Pseudopodospermum hispanicum'' (also called black salsify), cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root *''Tragopogon porrifolius'' (also called purple salsify), cultivated for its light-skinned edible root *''Tradescantia spathacea'' (synonyms A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are a ...

Common Name
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Acanthus Mollis
''Acanthus mollis'', commonly known as bear's breeches, sea dock, bear's foot plant, sea holly, gator plant or oyster plant, is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae and is native to the Mediterranean region. It is a leafy, clump-forming perennial herb, with a rosette of relatively large, lobed or toothed leaves, and purplish and white flowers on an erect spike. Description ''Acanthus mollis'' is a leafy, clump-forming perennial herb with tuberous roots. It has a basal rosette of dark glossy green, lobed or divided, glabrous leaves long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne on an erect spike up to tall emerging from the leaf rosette. The sepals are purplish and function as the upper and lower lips of the petals, the upper lip about long and the lower lip long. The petals are about long and form a tube with a ring of hairs where the stamens are attached. Flowering occurs in summer and the fruit is a sharply-pointed capsule about long containing one o ...
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Mertensia Maritima
''Mertensia maritima'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, and is known by the common names oyster leaf in North America, oyster plant in the British Isles, and sea bluebells. It is restricted to gravelly sea shores, usually within reach of the highest winter tides in the Northern Hemisphere, reaching north to the northern parts of Canada, Greenland and Svalbard. It is a perennial herb producing a stem approaching 50 centimeters in maximum length. The inflorescence forms a cluster of flowers which are first reddish, and later bright blue. Description ''Mertensia maritima'' is known as the oyster leaf or oyster plant because it gives off a faint smell of mushrooms and when eaten it tastes vaguely of oysters. The chemical that gives this plant the oyster-like odour when its leaves are crushed is dimethyl sulphide, a compound that is noted for being a major part of the odour profile of raw oysters. . It is native to Britain and Northern Europe; however, population ...
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Pseudopodospermum Hispanicum
''Pseudopodospermum hispanicum'', commonly known as black salsify or Spanish salsify, also known as black oyster plant, serpent root, viper's herb, viper's grass or simply scorzonera, is a perennial species of plant in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), cultivated as a root vegetable in the same way as purple salsify (''Tragopogon porrifolius''), also in the sunflower family. It is native to Southern Europe and cultivated as a crop in Southern and Central Europe. It grows on nutrient poor soils, dry pasture, rocky areas, in thickets and on limy or marly soils of temperate zones. Description ''Pseudopodospermum hispanicum'' is grown commercially as an annual, although it is a biennial plant. After a vegetative phase in the first year, the plant flowers in its second year and can reach a height of 60 cm with a stem diameter of 5 cm. The hermaphroditic flowers are insect-pollinated. The flower-head is terminal and consists of yellow ray florets. The stem is smooth and l ...
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Tragopogon Porrifolius
''Tragopogon porrifolius'' is a species of plant. It is commonly known as purple or common salsify, oyster plant, vegetable oyster, Jerusalem star, Jack go to bed, goatsbeard, or simply salsify. These last two names are also applied to other species. It grows wild in many places and is one of the most widely known species of the salsify genus, ''Tragopogon''. It is cultivated for its ornamental flower and edible root. Description The plant grows to in height. As with other ''Tragopogon'' species, its stem is largely unbranched and the leaves are somewhat grasslike, up to long. It exudes a milky juice from the stems. The taproots can become long and thick. It typically flowers from June to September, but in warmer areas such as California it can be found in bloom from April. The flower head is purple and across and each is surrounded by 8–9 tapered bracts which are longer than the petals (technically, the ligules of the ray flowers). The flowers are hermaphrodite, hermap ...
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Tradescantia Spathacea
''Tradescantia spathacea'', also called the oyster plant, boatlily or 'Moses-in-the-cradle', is an herb in the Commelinaceae family which was first described in 1788. It is native to Belize, Guatemala, and southern México (Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán Peninsula) and is widely cultivated as an ornamental houseplant; it has become naturalized in parts of coastal Southern California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana Louisiana ( ; ; ) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the 50 U.S. states, it ranks 31st in area and 25 ..., Texas, and various Pacific and Indian Ocean islands. Description ''Tradescantia spathacea'' has fleshy rhizomes and Rosette (botany), rosettes of waxy lance-shaped leaves. Leaves are dark to metallic green above, with glossy purple underneath. These will reach up to long by wide. They are foliage plants that reach ...
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