Insect eating Butterwort; mountain and bogland plant.
Amazing healing properties - can be used as a wound dressing. Here I applied a clean slimy leaf, under a plaster, to a slow-mending cut. The healing process within eight hours was fantastic.
Butterwort produces a bactericide which prevents insects rotting, while they are being slowly digested by the plant.
It was used at one time on cattle sores and wounds. I would guess that especially their udders were treated with butterwort.
It was used at one time to curdle milk and make a buttermilk type product in Sweden and Norway.
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