Cleome

Uses: FOOD: Leaves and tender shoots are used as a vegetable (+++), sometimes cooked with more bitter vegetables such as Cleome gynandra (Luo, Siaya), black nightshade and Launaea cornuta (coast).

Chapter 7 1999

Some favorites are Nigella arvensis, Cleome hassleriana, Peucedanum verticillare and Digitalis parviflora.

Garden Guru Piet Oudolf 2011

As the light dimmed on that first evening back, I planned to use it next year among the white Cleome, a welcome combination in a season that it seems is far from spent.

Summer podding 2010

The spiders had woven a lattice-work of webs among the toppling eryngium and verbena, which were sagging under their own weight of seed, while the white Cleome "Helen Campbell" had elongated along their stems to form a city of spires to catch the last of the afternoon light.

Summer podding 2010

We had to share this, taken from the comments section of the previous post: Gloamy Cleome woke up discombobulated.

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Dominant species include Fagonia indica, Aerva javanica, Acacia tortilis, and Cleome chrysantha.

Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands 2007

Including these Cleome (beeplant) blossoms, touched by the last rays of the sun ...

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

It's in the Cleome genus, which my plant guide calls "bee-plant," rather than "spider flower."

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

Leaves mixed with those of akeyo (Cleome gynandra) are boiled, made into lumps, dried in the sun and stored in a clay pot (agulu) as a dry-season food (Luo).

Chapter 7 1999

Normally cooked with amaranth (Pokot, Luo), meat or Cleome gynandra.

Chapter 7 1999