On a more botanical note, I did find out (to my pleasant surprise) That Humulus lupulus grows natively in North Carolina. Now anyone who knows me knows that I have a particular fascination with collecting and using native plants for various uses; I wont get to into it, cause I don't want to seem like too much of a dork but Humulus lupulus is hops, beer hops.
Now how freaking cool would it be to brew and drink beer made from hops collected from the wild with your own to hands!? Anyways relying on one of my favorite websites to haunt i found its county distribution.
Because I'm a sucker for biological art, especially renderings of plants I thought I would put up this pretty picture to end the post with, use it though.. keep an eye open for this tasty plant.
2 comments:
Very awesome. Who would have thought... I saw on that linked site that mapped populations are either native or naturalized. The counties on the map are directly south, north and northwest of Guilford county. Randolph (South), Rockingham (North), and Stokes (Northwest). We need to harvest some hops man!
I will do some local legwork to try to find out just where and how plentiful this native hops is. I would definately be up for having a Harvest weekend. I will let you guys know what I can find.
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