![]() ![]() Cancer root is a parasite of such common plants as goldenrods, asters, saxifrages and sedums, and though I have seen these plants blooming in Brooklyn and Queens, the fields of Staten Island and the Bronx have real potential. Luckily, even in New York City, old, unmown fields are not hard to find. It is an uncommon plant found in a fairly ordinary habitat, but without leaves or perennial stems, it is visible only when it flowers, and generally where few think to search. Mythos aside, flowered cancer root is a singular, fascinating plant to study in the field. Though there are records of medieval medical uses of the plant as an astringent healer of “old green wounds,” whatever uses cancer root once had for treating that disease have been lost to time. ![]() ![]() Naked, though unfortunately suggestive in this context, probably simply refers to the plant’s leaflessness.įerment these oral ingredients in the cask of time and the result is the hideous common name, naked broomrape. ![]()
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