{"id":1734,"date":"2015-06-25T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1734"},"modified":"2024-08-21T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T10:12:13","slug":"nostoc-marbles-in-tromso","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1734","title":{"rendered":"Nostoc marbles in Troms\u00f8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the strangest foods I&#8217;ve eaten. \u00a0Nostoc plums (Nostoc pruniforme) or sj\u00f8plomme in Norwegian (meaning Lake Plums) is a genus of cyanobacteria and an endangered species. It has been introduced in a small pond in the middle of the Arctic-Alpine Botanical garden in Troms\u00f8 from Slettnes Nature Reserve, which is one of the northernmost capes on mainland Norway, east of Nordkapp. \u00a0Director of the garden, Arve Elvebakk, persuaded me that I should eat these :) More or less tasteless jelly balls! Two garden visitors who passed by as I was eating them were less convinced of their edibility though!\u00a0Another species added to my life list&#8230;..<br \/>\nI actually mention cyanobacteria in my book because\u00a0a Nostoc species lives symbiotically with Gunnera tinctoria (p. 177) and helps it fix nitrogen. See what it looks like on this page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/srgc.org.uk\/wisley\/2007\/061207\/log.html\">http:\/\/srgc.org.uk\/wisley\/2007\/061207\/log.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on the edibility of Nostoc species here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/nostoc-nasal-nostalgia-and-edible-too-2\/\">http:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/nostoc-nasal-nostalgia-and-edible-too-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1735 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420510.jpg\" alt=\"P1420510\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420510.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420510-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1736 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420513.jpg\" alt=\"P1420513\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420513.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1420513-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the strangest foods I&#8217;ve eaten. \u00a0Nostoc plums (Nostoc pruniforme) or sj\u00f8plomme in Norwegian (meaning Lake Plums) is a genus of cyanobacteria and an endangered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32695,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1734\/revisions\/32695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}