Daylight On Chives
by Connie Handscomb
Title
Daylight On Chives
Artist
Connie Handscomb
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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♥ Heartfelt Gratitude to FAA groups for featuring this image :
The Artistic Forager
The Green Paradise
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Chives (wild onion)
Allium schoenoprasum and
Allium tuberosum (garlic chives)
Family: Liliaceae (lily family)
He who bears chives on his breath is safe from being kissed to death.
~ Marcus V. Martialis, poet (100 AD)
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Chives - fr. the French 'cives' (derived fr Latin 'cepa' meaning "onion")
onion : fr. Latin 'Unus" meaning 'the number one', 'unity' or 'oneness'
allium - fr. Greek , meaning 'garlic'
schoenoprasum - fr. Greek 'schoinos' or Latin 'schoenus' meaning "rush" or reed , and "pranum' for "leek"
Chives is a member of the onion family related to the lily. The sulphur content of chives is not as powerful as that of onions or garlic. Both flowers and leaves used in salads, dressings, and sauces. During the Chinese New Year - the Spring Festival which begins the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar - garlic chives is a culinary delicacy.
Nutritionally, it has Vitamins A, C and E, with some trace minerals. It is considered an aid to digestion and to promote circulation. Chinese chives has also been considered to be an antiseptic.
Sources:
Edible : An Illustrated Guide to the World's Food Plants [National Geographic]
Culpeper's Color Herbal [Potterton]
The Boreal Herbal : Wild Food and Medicine Plants Of the North [Gray]
Concise Guide To Herbs [Linford]
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May 9th, 2014
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