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Mertensia maritima

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Home Perennial Mertensia maritima

Shingle by the sea. Uncommon and declining.

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Family: Boraginaceae
Height: 0.2 m / 1 ft
Sun
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 0 of 5
Other Uses: of 5

Native Habitat

Oyster Plant Mertensia maritima native habitat is Shingle by the sea. Uncommon and declining.

Edible Uses

Leaves - raw or cooked. They are said to taste of oysters. No-one has yet noticed a resemblance to oysters though not many of the tasters have ever eaten oysters! The flavour is fairly bland, the leaf is thick and has a very mucilaginous texture - it is probably this texture that reminds people of oysters. Root. Eaten by the Inuit of Alaska. Flowers - raw.

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