Re: Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey


"Alan Crozier" <name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
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"Grethe" <grethe.ladyhawk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, I have fallen over another source! The plant was
introduced again, either late in the 1700s or in the beginning
of the 1800s. It is not certain that this counts for Denmark
only, but it was written in 1806 that dodder was cultivated
in some places for the seeds, their oil used for food and lamps,
the pressed rests for cattle fodder, and for geese and ducks,
and dodder was mixed in bread flour. Danish oil factories made
oil cakes for cows ab. 1870, but the plant never gained any
importance.

Dodder is cultivated in Middle Europe (the source is from1979),
where the oil is used for soap, lighting, varnish, cooking oil, the
pressed rests for cattle fodder.


But remember, Grethe, the Danish dodder is a different plant from the
English one.

This is English dodder (Cuscata):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/dodder.htm

This is Danish dodder (called gold of pleasure in English)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelina_sativa

Hilsen

Alan

Thank you for the links, Alan! Yes, this certainly looks quite
different from sæd-dodder! Oh dear! I had a little suspicion
about this one, but I couldn't find the Latin name in the posts,
so I just went on talking as usual! `:)
Grethe

Here's a picture of Sæd-Dodder/Camelina sativa:
http://thyra2005.blogspot.com/2006/04/sd-dodder-in-middle.html


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