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• Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I ate lots of basil but never found any wooden parts. Did they feed me fake basil or what?

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had a basil plant I neglected like hell and barely managed to keep alive for ~2 years. By the end of its life after several rounds of barely surviving me forgetting to water it for a week or two, its stems had become woody. I don’t know if all mature basil stems harden or if that was a consequence of my plant abuse

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    • SsxChaos@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a couple basil plants and they’ve been in the garden for 3 years now and so far they got taller than me and still no wood, the stem is still green, so I was like wtf is basil wood when I seen this post and even harder wtf when I read your comment, but I guess every plant’s stem becomes wood when it dries out…

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    • Nacktmull@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see, so we usually eat up the plant before it can even get to the stage of developing wood, now it makes sense.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      seems the stems become woody after it flowers, it make sense since many plants do this. like artichoke,

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