Mainz Daily Photo

>Well, isn’t that dandy…#962

>

….lion

Comes from the French “Dent-de-Lyon” – Lions’ Tooth – and if you look at the serrated leaf, you can see why.

Around here, it’s called “Löwenzahn”

Which is the same thing, but in German, as one would expect.

The French also call it “Pis-en-lit”, referring to the leaves’ diuretic properties.

I’m sure someone’s going to give us a translation…..

02 May This entry was published on 2 May, 2010 at 11:00. It’s filed under Mainz and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

2 thoughts on “>Well, isn’t that dandy…#962”

  1. Leif Hagen on said:

    >You portray them so beautifully – maybe I shouldn't get so irritated by them in my lawn?

    Reply ↓
  2. Kate on said:

    >Makes great wine, too!

    Reply ↓

Leave a reply - you don't need to enter your email address, but I moderate new visitors to avoid getting murdered by spam.

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: