What is oxalis?
oxalis is a genus of wooden baskets that belong to the oxalidaceae family and contains more than 800 individual plant species. Members of the family oxalis can be identified by their dense clusters with low growing leaves consisting of three or more leaflets. In most regions of the world, wild types oxalis grow, many of which are grown as garden plants. oxalis wooden corses are edible plants with a long history of culinary and medicinal use.
Wooden baskets, sometimes recorded as sorrel or woodclass, are a family of perennials that look similar to common Shamrocks. These types of wooden wheels grow to a height of 6 inches (about 15 centimeters) and spread quickly to create a fresh ground cover on the forest. The most common types oxalis have numerous individual leaves that consist of three evenly shaped leaflets. There are also some species with leaves that have up to ten leaflets. Most of these wooden basketsThey bloom in half to late spring with flowers, which have five connecting petals. Flowers oxalis wooden baskets are usually white or yellow, but there are also species with pink or red flowers.
Some of the most famous types of oxalis include a common cord of wood and Bermuda Buttercup. Common wooden wheels ( o. Acetalis and o. Montanta ) is an attractive, high altitude that blooms with simple, five-paletized white flowers with thin pink veins. Bermuda Buttercup ( o. Pes-Carprae ) is a highly invasive wooden wheels from North Africa with bright yellow flowers that have become an unpleasant weed in North America and regions of Europe.
oxalis Wooden cats are recognized as an easily identifiable edible wild plant around the world and in some regions are grown for food. In the mountains of the southern southern andMerika Colombians cultivates a type of wooden wheel, which they refer to as OCA ( o. Tuberosa ) for a small tuber that is rich in carbohydrates. European and South American sailors historically consumed different types of woods as a source of vitamin C.
These types of plants were also collected and cultivated for healing purposes. The leaves of these wooden wheels contain a chemical compound called oxalic acid, which cleans the floors and satisfies hungry pain when chewing. Practicing folk medicine used to extract salt crystals, which they referred to as sorrel salt for various medicinal purposes. Sorrel salt is actually a form of calcium oxalate and is no longer used because of its role in the formation of kidney stones.