{"id":22840,"date":"2019-07-16T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22840"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:49:31","slug":"foraging-alpine-bistort-bulbils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22840","title":{"rendered":"Foraging Alpine Bistort Bulbils"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, we went for a walk up to a mountain farm (seter) near to the lake Foldsj\u00f8en in Malvik with the main aim to gather alpine bistort (harerug) bulbils (Polygonum viviparum \/ Persicaria vivipara) to dry for the winter. This is one of the 80 plants in my book and I grow various accessions of this plant also in my garden! See also my post on 25th June: http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22680
\nY<\/a>ou can often find large quantities of this plant in open sheep pasture and dampish meadows.\u00a0 I hadn’t been to this “seter” before and right enough there were large amounts of this plant, although the bulbils were still not fully grown.\u00a0 We walked from Verket, an outdoor museum on the site of Mostadmark Jernverk, the site of an old iron furnace (see\u00a0https:\/\/www.malvik.kommune.no\/mostadmark-jernverk.6168342-478994.html<\/a>) up through the forest past Hul\u00e5sen to the seter, returning via Sl\u00e5ttdalen and returning along the side of the lake. We didn’t meet a single person or car all the way! At the end you can also see a number of pictures and films of nature and some fungi we found along the way!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a short film showing thousands of flowerheads in a damp meadow (the flowers are sterile, the plant almost only multiplying vegetatively by bulbils):<\/p>\n

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