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[nil]

Tumbleweed, aka salsola. The plants break away from their roots in the autumn, and are driven by the wind as a light, rolling mass, scattering seed far and wide. They can be found easily in the ghostly western town in the western movies, or ghostly forum on a ghostly site.

Few people knows that tumbleweed are edible, especially when young and tender. They are good for salads or sushi.

[Pixyboo]

i lived to know that

[Bomadeno]

*rolls past tumbleweedesquely*

{Backround music is sombre, with a 'desolate breeze' sound effect}

[hamster]

Many things are edible that most folk don't realize: pansies, daylilies, dandelions. Tumbleweeds, however, were new to me.

[Pimienta]

what in a tumble weed would be eaten and is it better if they are caught before they become tumbly? also what does a non tumbly tumbleweed look like?

[Bomadeno]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Salsola_oppositifolia.JPG [copy and paste, wikipedia image too big for forumisation]

Thanks to wikipedia, it looks like this...

And thanks again it eats like this:

Salsola as food

The leaves and shoots of many species are edible, especially when young and tender, and some are grown as vegetables, often used for salads, sushi, or as a garnish. The most commonly eaten European species is Salsola soda known in Italy as Barba di Frate or Agretti. In Japan, S. komarovii is a crop of moderate importance, known locally as okahijiki (literally "land hijiki").

The seeds are also edible, although difficult to collect in quantity, and are sometimes ground into flour.

Sounds a bit like seaweed to me.... Landweed....

[Pimienta]

wow it's so pretty

When I was living with my aunt, there was no tumbleweed. The little girl who liked to color with me had never heard of it so I had to tell her about it. I remember when I was little I used to run after tumbleweeds that were bigger than me but I had never seen it before it was tumbleweed

[Bomadeno]

I've never seen a 'real' tumbleweed, alive or dead. I think they're an American thing, and more an American cowboy film set thing, in fact before this discussion I didn't know much about it at all, and could have easily been persuaded that it wasn't real at all, just a film prop.

[Pimienta]

they are very abundant in eastern oregon