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Beautiful water avens (Geum rivale) also known as ‘chocolate root’ with its drooping purple-jacketed peach-petalled flowers looking like funky vintage lampshades on the stream’s edge
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Like its cousin wood avens (known as clove root), water avens also has strongly flavoured and aromatic roots??
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This riverside dweller’s roots can be used to make a chocolatey drink or as a seasoning ?
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Best harvested in the spring or autumn, though can be used all year round – but remember you *must* have landowner permission before uprooting any plant in the wild ♡?
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Swipe for flower close-up ?
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