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Late Fall/Early Winter Wild Texas Medicinals

Texas is weird. Growing and collecting plants is a hard call. The most influential factors for collecting plants in the wild are temperature, light, how much rain we’ve

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Common Hill-Country Texas Medicinal Plants

Central Texas Hill Country is a very unique bioregion consisting of limestone and aquifers that bubble up to the surface and back into the ground. There isn’t much soil, or

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Loquat, Eriobotrya

The official latin name for loquats is Eriobotrya japonica the name meaning literally “reed orange”). more commonly known as pipa from the resemblance of its shape to

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Cactus, Opuntia

Prickly Pear’s official latin name is Opuntia.  This is a large grouping and there are about a dozen species of opuntia that are referred to as prickly pears, with several

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