October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
Hats off to Patrick Belardo, who ID'd the mystery plant as Nutsedge.
The purveyor of this mystery, Edith Wallace, wrote:
"[The plant in the photo] is nutsedge, a noxious weed, but in Spain we purchased a special beverage, horchata, made of nutsedge tubers called chufa."
I think we all knew that already.
Not. (Thanks, Edith!)
Yeah! A very interesting fact! I think they drink that in Latin America too.
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Patrick Belardo
Yeah! A very interesting fact! I think they drink that in Latin America too.