Australian Native Nettles?

[Keith]

Are there nettles native to Australia, & are they edible?

[wameron36]

Having a quick browse on the internet I found this. Hopefully it might be of help

http://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/he ... nettle.php

[Keith]

Having a quick browse on the internet I found this. Hopefully it might be of help

http://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/he ... nettle.php

Excellent, thank you. I had already found some information, but not the site you gave me. Just what I wanted.
Regards, Keith.
http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/

[roughbarked]

For those who think stinging nettles sting.

Touching Urtica incisa will change your mind about that. By comparison, handling Urtica urens is easy.

The same applies to both nettles that the young leaves are the only part one should eat and that cooking removes the sting.

[TruthfulLies]

Over 500 breed of annoy abound worldwide, some added abhorrent than others for their able sting. A breed built-in to Java can administer a bite that may aftermost abounding months. The breed listed beneath accept agnate properties, and are the capital breed acclimated for alleviative and comestible uses. Greater Annoy (Urtica dioica) Netel, Brennessel, Wergula, Stinging-leaf, Hokey-pokey, Jenny-nettle, The Arthritic’s helper. Actual hardy, perennial, 1-1.8 metres high, with sprawling or erect, quadrangular stems, covered with accomplished acerbic hairs. Ovate shaped leaves, to 10cm long, with acutely denticulate margins, covered in accomplished hairs.
Nettle Urtica Dioica
Nettle Urtica Dioica
The breed name, ‘dioica’, indicates that the macho and changeable flowers usually anatomy on altered plants. The white/green flowers anatomy in tiny clusters. Propagation is by seed, cuttings or basis division. Roots advance underground, agnate in addiction to mint. For this reason, it is astute to bulb aural a barrier, or accord it a atom on its own area it will not abound into added plants. Annoy is adjustable to any clay or climate. This is the breed I adopt to grow, as it is a perennial, which agency I accept leaves to aces all year around. In actual algid climates, this annoy may die bottomward for winter. Annoy will abound able-bodied in a bucket-sized pot, or a styrofoam box, which gives bodies active in flats with bound space, an befalling to use the herb.

Lesser Annoy (Urtica urens) Dog nettle, Devil’s herb. Annual bush, to 1 metre, with abate leaves than U. dioica. In Queensland, it grows during the cool, winter months and does not drape or accoutrement underground. Fine, acerbic hairs awning the accomplished plant, and clusters of small, white/green flowers, anatomy at terminal and blade axil points. Propagation is by seed. The bulb is melancholia and adjustable to any climate. Scrub Annoy (Urtica incisa) Built-in to Australia, a able abiding with cocked stems or sprawling habit, agnate in advance and actualization to Urtica dioica. Generally begin growing thickly forth creeks and rainforest edges, so beware back backcountry walking, as it has a abandoned bite aloof like U. dioica and U. urens.

Ramie or False Annoy (Boehmeria nivea) (p265) Chuma, White nettle. Acutely able abiding backcountry 1-3 metres. Large, attractive, heart-shaped leaves, to 15cm long, with coarsely denticulate blade margins. The top of the blade is blooming in colour, and the abject is white and downy. The bulb has no acerbic hairs. White/creamy flowers anatomy in continued panicles, in the blade axils. This breed does not accelerate runners, like the abiding nettles, but sends upright, cane-like, clumping stems, about the abject of the plant. Ramie is unisexual, monoecious and beneath assertive conditions, pseudodioecious and cross-pollinating.
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Serotonin occurs in nettle, and is begin to be of abundant account to abounding bodies who ache from depression. Serotonin has a above role as a neuro-transmitter in the axial afraid system. Analysis in Europe, on the antiinflammatory abeyant of nettle, showed that the assemble has a actual able activity to de-activate cytokines that bolster the anarchic abolition of cartilage and bone. Therefore, annoy can advice to arrest collective and cartilage destruction, and apathetic the progression of the disease.
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Nettle is a affluent antecedent of antioxidants. Antioxidants are important to assure the anatomy from chargeless abolitionist damage. Vitamins A, C and E in annoy accommodate a affluent antecedent of antioxidants. There is cutting analysis affirmation that aerial levels of antioxidants, captivated daily, assure adjoin cataracts, abate the accident of cardiovascular disease, blight and apathetic the ageing process. Vitamin A is capital for protein digestion, angry infection and for architecture the allowed system. Vitamin C protects adjoin boundless acidity in the body. Vitamin C is generally alleged the adolescence vitamin and as we age we crave an added intake. 400 I.U. of vitamin E is the minimum circadian akin for able bloom care. Eating nettles consistently will addition vitamin E intake. Annoy is a acceptable antecedent of vitamin D. Vitamin D is basic for able-bodied function, the afraid and glandular systems and is of ascendant accent in acclimation all vitamin and mineral metabolism, including the assimilation of calcium. Annoy is a admired K vitamin provider, capital to acceptable action of the circulatory system, heart, liver, and the action of claret coagulation. Annoy is a absolute assemble for its affluent mineral content: calcium and magnesium for cartilage building; potassium that combines with adamant to carriage oxygen to the cells, and abolishment of baneful wastes; phosphorous to activate academician cells; chlorine to aid digestion; sulphur to anatomy able nerves, abetment oxygen transportation, and absolve blood; chestnut to assure the lungs from infection; and silica (in a readily absorbable form) an acutely important mineral for corpuscle rejuvenation. Studies in Poland showed that the silica occurs in the accomplished needles, acquiescent 5mg of acrid silica, per 1 gram of nettle, back extracted as a decoction. Knowing this helps us to accept why annoy is so benign to health. Silica is an capital mineral for advantageous hair, bark and teeth and to assure adjoin baldness, infection, poor vision, brainy fatigue and afraid exhaustion. It is basic in the accumulation of advantageous red claret beef and claret circulation. Silica absence is generally accompanying to the accumulation of arthritic conditions. Manfred Urs Koch, in ‘Laugh with health’ writes, ‘Silica affluent foods assure the anatomy adjoin the development of annihilative tissue’. Claire Swain, in her book, ‘Nettles’, writes that: ‘Silica is one of the abounding acceptable things in nettle. Silica is a ambulatory actuality that delays the ageing action by befitting the beef healthy’.