plant can dry out easily in the sun
needs a lot of water
very interesting looking leaves and flowers
has ver...Read Morey fine hairs on the trunk and leaves
somewhat sticky.
supposedly the flower buds are edible before the seeds harden.
seeds themselves are also edible
but, im not sure how to get them out of the shell
which appears indestructible.
American Indians used them as a food source for hundreds of years.
plants seeds they believe, used to catch onto the hair of large mammals in North America (ground sloth, Mammoth etc...)
to carry seeds and propagate afar.
They are unsure how the plant survived between the time
those mammals disappeared,
and horses and other mammals came from overseas.
plant can dry out easily in the sun
needs a lot of water
very interesting looking leaves and flowers
has ver...Read More