Le scrace (i rovi di Puglia)

Editorial Staff 31 May 2022

In Puglia there is no trullo, pajara, or dry stone wall (even called scrasciàle) that is not occupied by the beautiful and very thorny wild bramble plant, scracia in the Salento dialect.

It is a thorny plant very useful for soil regeneration,

per le proprietà usate nei rimedi naturali, e per la felicità dei bambini quando raccolgono i suoi frutti (le more) nelle loro incursioni piratesche nelle campagne.

It belongs to the type of weed plants.

Popular tradition includes several anecdotes and legends surrounding this thorny shrub,

as proof of how important and well-known it was already in ancient times.

Virgil speaks of it as follows: “It is time to weave light baskets with bramble shoots”. Aesop includes it in a fable, The Fox and the Bramble, where he celebrates this plant and tells of a fox who, while jumping a hedge, clings, in spite of himself, to the branches of a bramble, making his situation worse.

In ancient folk medicine, the decoction of blackberry leaves was widely used at intestinal level for its astringent, anti-inflammatory and normalizing properties.

The shoots of the plant collected in spring, instead, were appreciated in salads as a laxative and purifying food.

The plant produces simple five-petalled flowers, generally white and pink, grouped in pyramid-shaped inflorescences.

Flowering occurs at the beginning of summer when bees, attracted by the intense scent of the sweetish nectar, crowd the branches to prepare for the production of a delicious honey.

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Le scrace (i rovi di Puglia)

It is a thorny plant very useful for soil regeneration,

Popular tradition includes several anecdotes and legends surrounding this thorny shrub,

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It is a thorny plant very useful for soil regeneration,

Popular tradition includes several anecdotes and legends surrounding this thorny shrub,

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