I love this! When I was in Nicaragua I was helping my friend with a restaurant and the first thing we did was switch out many of his greens for native weeds. I now live in Bangkok and I see these boxes at the side of the road and when you go closer, you notice that people are growing all kinds of edible weeds in there that they sell in the shop right next to it; most notably I see butterfly pea everywhere. The problem is that I find that native people often don't know the word for them!
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That's so cool about your Nicaraguan experience, @permieemmy! It must be so interesting to see so many wild plants in the Bangkok markets, too. I can relate to your challenge of finding out the name of the plants. My dad learned a lot of local wild plants from his grandmother -- none of the names match the accepted botanical names, lol. Thank goodness for ethnobotanists that can help us figure out what all those local plants are, in places all over the world. I"ve learned to enjoy eating some interesting things, based on their reports. I'll have to check out the Butterfly Pea and see if folks are growing it in gardens in my region. Enjoy your Bangkok plants! :D