Category: INDONESIA

• INDONESIA

  INDIGO

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Indigo Lisa Karen Miller           Gala, the creator, loved blue, and so made the sky that color. His wish was that blue would be the first dye color found in a plant.  When snails chewed the indigo plant, each little hole had a blue halo around…

  October 8, 2023
• INDONESIA

  CLOVE

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Clove Lisa Karen Miller           The tiny, wrinkled, brown spheres with stems attached lurking in your spice cabinet are the sundried unopened flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum, an evergreen tree native to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia.           A tree named Afo lives on one of…

  October 5, 2023