nasturtium
旱金莲,金雀花,金莲花,蔊菜
Definitions
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- : any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers.
Examples
If the bright orange flowers with darker orange and red streaks in the centers don’t tip you off, nasturtium also has distinctive leaves.
The flowers, buds, and leaves of nasturtium plants are all safe to eat, and they have a peppery bite that sets them apart from other edible blooms.
In this course pretty nearly everything will be pickled, down to nasturtium buds and radish pods.
Then there is a salmon salad encircled by water cress or nasturtium leaves, and at intervals, dainty mounds of potato salad.
Some persons have had their skin inflamed by handling the garden nasturtium.
The nasturtium bloomed early in the month—first a red one then a yellow one, then a lot of red and yellow ones.
Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.