Plant Profiles

Solanaceae, Greens & Herbs Laura Bennett Solanaceae, Greens & Herbs Laura Bennett

Hierba Mora

A common plant you’ll find growing as “a weed” throughout the Americas, this green when eaten young (before it flowers) is incredibly nutrient rich and flavorful much like spinach, and is eaten regularly in soups and stir-fries in many Indigenous and Latinx communities as a common quelite. The fruits are small blueberry-sized berries that are poisonous when green, but tasty and harmless when ripened to fully black.

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