
SAVORY
Shakespeare Species Savory: Here’s flowers for you: hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram…these are flowers of middle summer and I think they are given to men of middle age. Perdita assigns different plants to the guests at the sheep shearing feast. Savory had medicinal and culinary uses.




ARABIAN GUM
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ARABIAN GUM: drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees their medicinable gum. Gum Arabick is still used as a medicine & food additive and comes from a type of Acacia.



COLOQUINTIDA
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, COLOQUINTIDA: the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. Coloquintida is a bitter gourd used medicinally.



