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Metal Eating Plants Clean the Earth

Metal eating plants can clean the earth–how exciting! You’ll find a wonderful video about heavy metal eating plants down below.

For me, this news about heavy metal eating plants is especially exciting. I received information from Pan, Lord of the Wilderness, while writing my book, When We Were Gods. He said that nature was capable of cleaning the earth. I included the information in the book, When We Were Gods. Here’s a quote from the book:

“But remember, Pan has also said that nature can and wants to heal the earth.”

Stanleya pinnata

Flowers of Stanleya pinnata, one of the Heavy Metal Eating Plants. Photo by Stan Shebs. Photo available through Wikipedia Commons.

When this information came to me, I assumed this meant the usual. Plants absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and produce oxygen.

However, a Wikipedia article on the heavy metal eating plant, Pycnandra acuminata, shows another way of healing the earth. Interestingly, the article describes a use of the plant in cleaning up polluted former mine sites:

Such plants are of considerable interest due to their potential use in phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated former mine sites

Pycnandra acuminata

It didn’t occur to me that there could be plants that pull heavy metals out of the soil. Talk about cleaning the earth!

By the way, if you’re interested in learning more of what Pan said, I’ve included a link to the Amazon listing of the book here:

 

Take a look at this YouTube video of botanist Dylan Burge, PhD, at the California Academy of Sciences. He is doing research on species of plants that naturally soak up or “mine” heavy metals from the soil. They are called hyperaccumulators. In the video, he specifically talks about a plant on the island of New Caledonia, which he calls an arc of bio-diversity. The island is off the east coast of Australia and is home to almost 200 species of metal eating plants.

Dr. Burge describes Pycnandra acuminata, the plant mentioned in the Wikipedia article sited above. The video shows an amazing image of the plant, which is in the same plant family as the rubber plant. However, the rubber sap of the Pydnandra acuminata is a light blue color that contains 26% nickel. This metal eating plants soaks up nickel! Interestingly, nickel is a light blue color.

Dr. Burge also mentions Stanleya pinnata, which hypaccumulates selenium. It’s a plant that grows in the American Southwest, and can be deadly to livestock that eat it. Nonetheless, if you wanted to clean earth polluted by selenium, you could use Stanleya pinnata. This is a great video:

 

 

 

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Carol Anne Chapman is the author of When We Were Gods, Arrival of the Gods in Egypt, and Have Your Hearts Desire. She met her husband first in a dream. Formerly the media photojournalist at a NASA center, she presently provides online guidance on such topics as dream interpretation, the Golden Ones, and past life memories at https://CarolChapmanLive.com/bookasession. She has been featured on Coast- to-Coast AM hosted by George Noory and Art Bell as well as CBS radio's Kimmie and Steve and The Maria Shaw Show. Her articles have been published in Venture Inward, Alternative Perceptions, Dream Network, The Open Road, and FATE Magazine.

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M. BRACER - September 12, 2016

Info about PURSLANE, a ground cover which grows like a weed in my veggie garden. I was attempting to eradicate it until I discovered that PURSLANE is a nutritious “green”. I harvested and cleaned some a few days ago and am mixing it into my salads; the mild lemony taste adds another dimension to a salad. This is an excerpt about PURSLANE from the link which is sited following this quote:
“It is a bit of a nutritional powerhouse, offering remarkable amounts of minerals (most notably calcium, iron, magnesium, and potassium), omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins (A, B, C), and antioxydants. It is thought to be an important component of the Cretan high-life-expectancy diet, and Michael Pollan has called it one of the two most nutritious plants on the planet in his In Defense of Food manifesto.”
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/ingredients-fine-foods/45-things-to-do-with-purslane/

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    carolchapman - September 12, 2016

    What a treasure-trove! I followed the link and not only found a picture of purslane, but also a lot of amazing information with loads of recipes. It is a plant that can help to heal us! Talking about thinking it’s a weed, I think I’ve walked on it, not realizing that it was food! Thanks so much for posting this helpful information.

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