Oxalis acetosella Puns

Hello ! Sorry for my english I am french. During the previous year, I brought back some Oxalis acetosella from my holidays and they have been doing well until this winter which damaged a little bit the leaves. But anyway, they survived and now, the meteo says that it is going to be as low as -10°C in a few days. What I would like to know is, has the plant got enough "cold dormancy" for this year ? Because I would like to bring it back indoors under grow lights for the last few frost because theses Oxalis are very young, soo, they aren't very frost resistant. (Well installed specimens are able to survive temperatures which are way lower than -10°C I think because I found them at an altitude of 500-600m.) Sincerely, Jack,

I have used it for years to make homemade fluorescent yellow dye and just today learned it's proper name. As a little kid I loved eating the stuff and (being the expirimenter I was) I tried to make a dye out of the really bright yellow flowers for a science project. Long story short it gives a beautiful light yellow color to whatever you dye with it. After having used it for so long, I am curious what gives it its color.

Edit: scientific name is Oxalis pes-caprae, not O. acetocella. Wrote down wrong species. xD

I saw this conversation in /r/mildlyinteresting and saw that the Oxalis acetosella is called "rabbit's cabbage" in Lithuanian, Estonian and Czech, and here in Sweden we call it "hare acid" (harsyra).

Why all the rabbits and hares? And are there more languages where its name is somewhat bunny related?

My grandma gave me an Irish Shamrock plant (Oxalis acetosella) for St. Patrick's day this year. It's been doing well so far but now many of the leaves/shoots are starting to turn brown and die. I read somewhere that shamrocks go dormant every once in a while, but it didn't say much else about it. I haven't done anything to it to kill it, I've just been watering it when it needs it (I'm definitely not underwatering, and I don't really think I've overwatered, either)

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So you’re stranded in the wilderness. You consumed the last nub of your Clif Bar two days ago, and now you’re feeling famished. Civilization is still several days away, and you need to keep up your strength. The greenery all around you is looking more and more appetizing. But what to nibble on? Some plants will keep you alive and are chock full of essential vitamins and minerals, while some could make you violently ill….or even kill you.

Which of course makes proper identification absolutely critical.

Below we’ve given a primer on 19 common edible wild plants. Look them over and commit the plants to memory. If you’d like to discover even more edible wild plants, we suggest checking out the SAS Survival Handbook and the U.S. Army Survival Manual.

In the coming months, we’ll be publishing articles on edible wild roots, berries, and fungi. So stay tuned.

Plants to Avoid

If you can’t clearly identify a plant and you don’t know if it’s poisonous, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Steer clear from a plant if it has:

• Milky or discolored sap
• Spines, fine hairs, or thorns
• Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods
• Bitter or soapy taste
• Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley-like foliage
• “Almond” scent in the woody parts and leaves
• Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs
• Three-leaved growth pattern

Many toxic plants will exhibit one or more of the above characteristics. Bear in mind that some of the plants we suggest below have some of these attributes, yet they’re still edible. The characteristics listed are just guidelines for when you’re not confident about what you’re dealing with. If you want to be completely sure that an unknown plant is edible, and you have a day or two to spare, you can always perform the [Universal Edibility Test.](htt

Wood Sorrel’s scientific name , Oxalis acetosella, derived from the Greek Oxys, which means ‘acid, or ‘sharp’, and hális, which means ‘salt’. Acetosella comes from the Latin acetum, meaning ‘vinegar’ or ‘sour wine’.

It is one of the earliest spring-flowering plants of the woodland floor, along with Wood Anenome, Bluebell and Wild Garlic and is characteristic of old woodland, forestry plantations and shaded hedgerows.

Habitat

The Wood Sorrel only feels at home in moist, shady areas and no other native flowering plant thrives on so such little light as this species does, it manages to photosynthesis perfectly well in just 10% daylight and can even survive on just 1% daylight. In shady areas it carpets the woodland floor, growing its stems horizontally under the surface of the leaf litter, budding at intervals along these stems to produce new tufts of leaves and side shoots, this is called ‘axillary’ growth as the buds grow from the points where the stems branch which are called ‘axils’ in botany.

Flowers

It flowers from around April to June and each tiny, white, five-petalled bell-shaped flower is held solitarily on a stem which grows directly from the roots, these petals are traced with pink veins through to the yellow centre of the flower and sometimes these can quite bold in colour, making the flowers appear pink or purple.

Leaves

The leaves are ‘trifoliate’, meaning that they are made up of 3 leaflets and each of these heart shaped leaflets fold up in the evening or in overcast weather as do the fragile flowers. This folding is carried out by a ‘cell turg

Do your worst!

It really does, I swear!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Buenosdillas

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

Why

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

Wood Sorrel’s scientific name , Oxalis acetosella, derived from the Greek Oxys, which means ‘acid, or ‘sharp’, and hális, which means ‘salt’. Acetosella comes from the Latin acetum, meaning ‘vinegar’ or ‘sour wine’.

It is one of the earliest spring-flowering plants of the woodland floor, along with Wood Anenome, Bluebell and Wild Garlic and is characteristic of old woodland, forestry plantations and shaded hedgerows.

Habitat

The Wood Sorrel only feels at home in moist, shady areas and no other native flowering plant thrives on so such little light as this species does, it manages to photosynthesis perfectly well in just 10% daylight and can even survive on just 1% daylight. In shady areas it carpets the woodland floor, growing its stems horizontally under the surface of the leaf litter, budding at intervals along these stems to produce new tufts of leaves and side shoots, this is called ‘axillary’ growth as the buds grow from the points where the stems branch which are called ‘axils’ in botany.

Flowers

It flowers from around April to June and each tiny, white, five-petalled bell-shaped flower is held solitarily on a stem which grows directly from the roots, these petals are traced with pink veins through to the yellow centre of the flower and sometimes these can quite bold in colour, making the flowers appear pink or purple.

Leaves

The leaves are ‘trifoliate’, meaning that they are made up of 3 leaflets and each of these heart shaped leaflets fold up in the evening or in overcast weather as do the fragile flowers. This folding is carried out by a ‘cell turg