Hramsa
Hramsan, buccramsan oþþe berangārlēac (Allium ursinum) is ƿilde sibling secglēaces. The systematic name derives from the fact that brown bears like to eat the bulbs of the plant and dig up the ground to get at them, as do ƿilde bār.
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| Allium ursinum L. |
Ƿildu lēac grōƿaþ mainly in swampy deciduous woodlands. They flower before the trees get their leaves and fill the air mid hira gecyndan strangan stence.
Þā lēaf sind gegadrod and geeten sƿā lāctricdisc, gesoden, oþþe sƿā pestocynn. Hīe ƿǣron gebrocen sƿā fōddor ēac. Cȳ þe fēddon on hramsan, giefaþ meolc þe bȳrgaþ hƿōnlīce sƿā gārlēac, and butere gemacod of þisse mielc ƿæs ǣr sƿīðe ƿīdmǣrsod in 19an gēarhundrede in Sƿitzerlande.
Hramsan ƿurdon nīƿlīce ƿīdcūþ in Þēodisclande, and in þǣm tūne Eberbach, feormaþ man gēarlicne hramsena frēols in Hrēþmōnþe and Ēastermōnþe.
Ūtanƿearde bendas adiht
- Ramson at Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages Archived 2007-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
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Geonge hramsena lēaf in frumum lenctene -
A close-up of the flowers and developing fruit -
Hramsan may grow in great numbers, as in this woodland in North Devon, England
