My kitchen windowsill is a place of honor for houseplants. Whatever is on that sill is seen so often, it must be a winsome plant. Before the remodel, I had bonsai trees and a cactus there. The cactus survived the remodel. The bonsais didn’t. They couldn’t handle the neglect while the kitchen was torn up. So I got new ones. These have been with me for a few months now and they have really settled in. I have now given them their first pruning.
The middle bonsai is a Solanum pseudocapsicum, or Jerusalem Cherry. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? But it is from the same family as Deadly Nightshade, so all parts of this plant are poisonous, including the fruit. So why do they call it a cherry if they don’t want you to eat it? The cactus is poisonous too, since it’s from the Euphorbia family. The other bonsais are a kind of tea plant and a small shrub.
Tea, cherry, shrub, and cactus:
Here are the “cherries”.
Do you think the tea and shrub are a little intimidated by the cherry and cactus…you know, being not poisonous and all…perhaps you should let the tea and shrub stand together for moral support.
Or, are you using them to keep the thugs (aka poisonous ones) apart. Sort of like the nerds in a seating arrangement…God bless the nerds…
I’m just curious if your next salad will have ‘cherries’ in it.
He probably has a little bag full in the freezer and he’s waiting to bring them back for a Nebraska summer salad…
MMMMWWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, he’s got it logged in his “How to murder your friends and family without looking suspicious” book.
I thought YOU were the one who was keeping a book like that. You sure seemed to pay attention when I was talking about dying from a vitamin overdose. I was a little nervous putting this information on the blog because I thought you might poison me with Deadly Nightshade.
Doesn’t everyone have one of those books?
I think your cactus looks like an artichoke … so now I want to eat it.
It is a Euphorbia. Poinsettias are euphorbias too. You may have heard of their poisonous properties. Euphorbias have white sap in them that is bitter and will sting your mouth. You’d have to eat a boatload of them to die, but eating my cactus would make you sick. Besides, I have grown fond of it. It’s common name is “Baseball Cactus”. I’ve had it for four years now… almost as long as Ned!
I hereby proclaim “Ned Lengths” to be the official unit of measurement for your blog. Henceforth all physical dimensions shall be given in single or multiple Ned Length and/or fractions thereof.
HA!
I prefer the food pictures