Autumnal Berry go Round

Apologies. I missed the publication of September’s Berry Go Round botanical blog carnival over at a DC Birding Blog. A birding blog? Well why not, they are as dependent on plants as the rest of us. Of agricultural interest is a post on sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) in Berlin. Like baobab, sea buckthorn is everywhere. That’s superfruits for you. It even has fact sheets.

The next edition will be hosted at the slugyard. I do hope someone will have written something interesting about aspidistras. You can submit posts here, your own or someone else’s, botanical (sense latu) rather than gardening. And if you’re willing to be a host, drop me a line.

Can one ever have too many factsheets on the baobab?

Baobab pepsi
Fresh on the heels of Bioversity’s ‘African Priority Food Tree Species’ factsheet on the baobab, which was itself fresh on the heels of the Agroforestree database factsheet on the baobab, we now have, again from Bioversity, another, ahem, factsheet on the baobab. Well, this is different. I think. It’s part of a series on neglected and underutilized species. Or maybe nutritious and underutilized, as they are also described on the website. Maybe because it’s becoming difficult to call the baobab neglected. In fact, with the recent update of a review of the use of the species, perhaps the time has come for a meta-factsheet on the baobab.

Nibbles: Graphic agriculture, Nutrition, Climate change, Giant pumpkins, Economic development, Roman millet, Fairtrade, Jojoba and guayule