Hey what's up everyone so if I told you that there was something growing in between the cracks of your sidewalks that you could actually eat

Would you believe me? Well, it doesn't really matter if you would believe me or not, because it is true.

The facts are the facts. And this would be Portilaca Oloracia, aka Red root, or known by its most common name, which would be

perselane. So, perselane is a very interesting plant. It is widely distributed around the entire world a lot of people

will consider it an exotic weed but here's the thing you can eat it and actually it has some very interesting properties to it.

But first let's talk about what it is.

It has smooth reddish stems.

The leaves can kind of be alternate from each other and they're very clustered around the stem joints and they'll actually create quite a bit of leaves from the same node.

So you'll have these two main ones come out and then they'll be even more clustered around it.

Like I said, they can show up in between your sidewalk cracks.

It's because the seeds are very prolific.

Once the flowers appear, which is really any time during the the year based on the rain.

There's a ton of black seeds that will come out and then of course spread all over the place,

germinate quite easily, and boom, you've got quite a bit of percelain.

So there's a little bit of history behind this plant.

In fact, in Antiquity, Pliny the Elder advised wearing the plant as an amule to expel all evil. Do I recommend that? I have

no idea. You can try it guys and let me know. I think I'll probably just be eating it

instead of wearing it as a magical amullet.

So here's what's interesting.

It can be eaten as a leaf vegetable.

Someone back in history said that it was eaten by Frenchmen and pigs

when they can get nothing else.

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