Joseph Simcox

The Botanical Explorer        
   Inspiring Awareness & Utilization      of Global Botanical Diversity

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Thanks @Food_Tank & @DaniNierenberg for #Indigenous #Crops piece. Fun interview! #explorewithjoseph #plants #food https://t.co/OFLwH49z0E

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In the Pyrenees of Catalunya... my new friend Adelina Molas was out picking the tender delectable spring greens. Among them a delicacy the Mountain Dandelion!
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This is now one of my favorite root crops! Ate my first one in Central Jordan! Sweet and delicious! This should be grown everywhere that carrots are grown!!!!! #explorewithjoseph

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Ova Basir of The Magnolia Bakery Shows off fruits from a Qatari traditional Bedouin food plant. Local cuisine is gaining fame even on the Arabian Peninsula!!!#ilnamiki #theplantastics #thebotanicalexplorer #explorewithjoseph #josephsimcox #revolutionofthought #explorewithjoseph

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Ova Basir of the Nagnolua Bakery Doha, Qatar shows off rare desert vegetables that are inspiring a whole new set of ideas concerning Arabic Peninsular Cuisine!
Gorgeous #thebotanicalexplorer #theplantastics #explorewithjoseph #revolutionofthought #ilnamiki #explorewithjoseph

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The mysterious “Tartooth” I last ate them after digging fresh stems out near Abu Dhabi. UAE. They taste like astringent slightly sweet crisp wintergreen flavored celery without the celery taste! #explorewithjoseph

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Rheum palestinum... tastes very sweet with a huge strawberry —-umami note!!!
The MSG strawberry stem!!!!!:) #explorewithjoseph, #theplantastics #explorewithjoseph

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In Kuwait...Lalaland of the Arabian Peninsula. It’s ok to be out of the wilderness once in a while! Hugs from the land of excess!
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With a handful of the bizarre parasitic mushroom known as Indian's Bread in Tierra Del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina …

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Always in the beauty of nature. Marcela of extraordinary sorts were plucked from the trees and enjoyed, delicacies …

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A giant pear from the Slow-Foods exhibit in Turin , Italy this last September. What a spectacular event. The best f…

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At the Herbarium Frisicum with my friend Karst Meijer, who singlehandedky has been amassing a spectacular rich coll…

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Patty in Meghri, Armenia among the "thickets" of domestic persimmons! Stunning and amazing town of long-standing or…

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Patty and Svetlana not far from Stepanakert in Ngorny Kharabakh with a heirloom cucumber raised by farmer Giorgios.…

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In the jungles of Ecuador with a fruitful specimen of Vasconcellea microcarpa, a dwarf fruiting relative of the Pap…

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Irina showing off the large fruit of Harissa divaricata , a native fruit bearing cactus of the island of Hispaniola…

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Solanaceous fruits that are so rare and unknown that the locals don't even know their qualities!!!! #rarevegetables…

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Irina with some native cactus fruits of the Island of Hispaniola. Many delicious fruits that here to date have not …

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Irina with a collection of splendid native Cactus fruits in The Dominican Republic.
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A country gentleman showing off one of the large pulque Agaves near his home.
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The very strange interior of the most spectacular thousand year plus old heirloom. Delicious sweet flesh!
Bizarre i…