Saturday was a wonderful Autumn day, gifting sunshine and warmth and the time and space to get out into nature. Ahem, after maybe a rich and decadent Belgian Hot Chocolate on the deck at She Chocolate in Governor's Bay, overlooking said bay.
It was definitely felt that some 'walking off' was required, upon which we embarked on a rather...er...languid stroll around the bay, heading South towards Rapaki.
This very same route was that which the famed NZ Children's Author, Margaret Mahy, regularly took with her dog.
Along the way, there were many scrubby-looking coastal plants, so this 'poroporo' or 'kangaroo apple', as it is called in Australia, with it's bright blue-purple petals stood out like the proverbial!
Rather useful medicinally, the leaves can be rubbed into
wounds caused by tattooing, the pith of dry stems used to treat bruises, decoctions of the
leaves and inner bark to treat ulcers and other skin
conditions and some
alkaloids from the plant are used to produce hormones.
No comments:
Post a Comment