Framed Queen Anne's Lace

by Sandra Huston

Title

Framed Queen Anne's Lace

Artist

Sandra Huston

Medium

Photograph - Photography, Digital Art

Description

“Framed Queen Anne’s Lace” is a contemporary floral artwork by Sandra Huston.

Honored to be featured in the following Fine Art America and Pixels.com groups:
* Just Perfect on 6/12/19
* Digital Art and Photography on 6/14/19

Queen Anne’s lace earned its common name from a legend that tells of Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) pricking her finger and a drop of blood landed on white lace she was sewing. Belonging to the carrot family, Queen Anne’s lace is a biennial that is also known as wild carrot. Early Europeans cultivated Queen Anne’s lace, and the Romans ate it as a vegetable. American colonists boiled the taproots, sometimes in wine as a treat. Interestingly, Queen Anne’s lace is high in sugar (second only to the beet among root vegetables) and sometimes it was used among the Irish, Hindus and Jews to sweeten puddings and other foods.

Queen Anne’s lace flowers have a flat-topped white umbel, resembling lace and sometimes with a solitary purple flower in the center. These flowers bloom from late spring until mid-fall. Each flower cluster is made up of numerous tiny white flowers. The flower cluster start out curled up and opens to allow pollination. The cluster then rolls itself shut again, like a reverse umbrella when it goes to seed at the end of the season.

Did you know that using first year Queen Anne’s lace plants the roots are used in soups, stews and in making tea? First year leaves can be chopped and tossed into a salad. Flower clusters can be ‘french-fried’ or fresh flowers can be tossed into a salad. The aromatic seed is used as a flavoring in stews and soups. Feathery leaves resemble those of the domestic carrot. The bases of leafstalks are broad and flat. Queen Anne’s lace leaves also closely resemble the leaves of the poison hemlock, fool’s parsley and water hemlocks, all poisonous cousins of Queen Anne’s lace so you need to be very careful when using them as a food source. Reference from www.ediblewildfood.com

The keywords associated with this artwork includes: Queen Anne’s Lace, flowers, flora, wild, wildflower, close-up, bloom, natural, leaves, leaf, nature, garden, blossom, petals, carrot, roots, queen, lace, umbel, floral, summer, sunlight, green, white, unique, enhanced photograph, framed, digital art, layers, contemporary, Sandra Huston, Pixels.com

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June 12th, 2019

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