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Best toilet paper tree or plant?

pollinator

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Location: cool climate, Blue Mountains, Australia

posted 5 years ago

I think comfrey is a very good plant to reduce toilet paper use in summer but it dies down in winter. Anyone ideas for evergreen
toilet paper plants or trees?
(You would get something like fertilized compost in the end)

Medicinal herbs, kitchen herbs, perennial edibles and berries: https://mountainherbs.net/ grown in the Blue Mountains, Australia

Isaac Hill

gardener

Posts: 357

Location: Beaver County, Pennsylvania (~ zone 6)

posted 5 years ago

Catalpa!

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steve temp

Posts: 40

Location: Costa Rica 100 meters above sea level, Tropical dry forest

posted 5 years ago

Rock preferably glacial.

Alder Burns

pollinator

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Location: northern California

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posted 5 years ago

What about mullein? That should be available just about year round.....

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Mary Florey

Posts: 1

posted 5 years ago

Abutilon palmieri - California native, heat/drought tolerant, fuzzy, soft heart shaped leaves with egg yolk yellow flowers.

Jose Reymondez

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Location: Galicia, Spain Zone 9

posted 5 years ago

Doesn´t comfrey irritate some people´s skin?

That doesn´t sound fun on your butt.

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S Carreg

Posts: 260

Location: De Cymru (West Wales, UK)

posted 5 years ago

Definitely mullein, it's green year-round in NE US. I just recently went on a tour of a Welsh castle built about 1000-1500 CE, and apparently they used moss.

Leila Rich

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Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,

posted 5 years ago

this thread is not only plants, but it's a fun read and it's got good info.

Sean Banks

Posts: 155

posted 5 years ago

During the Middle Ages people would take a sponge and connect that to a stick.....then that would go into a bucket of salt water......................you scrub your A** with the sponge and the saltwater kills bacteria

Dennis Lanigan

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Location: Philomath, OR

posted 5 years ago

Thimbleberry

Angelika Maier

pollinator

Posts: 1376

Location: cool climate, Blue Mountains, Australia

posted 5 years ago

thanks for the input! I'll have a look and will plant a variety of these plants. Comfrey is used in creams so it should not be irritating unless maybe for the hairs.

Medicinal herbs, kitchen herbs, perennial edibles and berries: https://mountainherbs.net/ grown in the Blue Mountains, Australia

S Carreg

Posts: 260

Location: De Cymru (West Wales, UK)

posted 5 years ago

Angelika Maier wrote:thanks for the input! I'll have a look and will plant a variety of these plants. Comfrey is used in creams so it should not be irritating unless maybe for the hairs.

Yes, comfrey is used in creams but that's as an extract not as the whole leaf. Many people find the hairs very irritating to the skin, my daughter gets a brief, nettle-like rash if she brushes against it in the garden, I definitely wouldn't use it on my bum!

S Carreg

Posts: 260

Location: De Cymru (West Wales, UK)

posted 5 years ago

Oh, has anyone mentioned common or marsh mallow? nice and soft, also soothing properties

Victor Johanson

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Location: Fairbanks, Alaska

posted 5 years ago

Resist the temptation to try Spanish moss. I was a kid when we moved to Florida, and rejoiced when this new ass wiping material revealed itself. It provided excellent functionality, evading the stinkfinger-inducing failures so common with leaves, but a few hours later it became evident that chiggers found it equally appealing as a habitation. Perhaps they resented the treatment to which their dwelling place was subjected, and attacked my smelly crack with fervid vengeance. I will testify that those delicate tissues reacted to the onslaught with particularly agonizing irritation. So be forwarned; it's a sensation better experienced vicariously.

Vic Johanson

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Tom Harner

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Location: St. Louis, MO

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posted 5 years ago

Lmfao!

Note to self: moss does not make good toilet paper.

Lol

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Dale Hodgins

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Location: Victoria British Columbia-Canada

657

posted 5 years ago

Try to avoid poison ivy. It's too shiny to make good but wipe.

The most useful thing that nature provides is a puddle. Nature's bidet. Watch for leaches and crackodiles.

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Victor was attacked by crackodiles.

Patrick McDonald

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posted 5 years ago

Here in Maui we have an abundance of coleus plants, which not only produce large, soft leaves, but have the most vivid and beautiful colorations. I don't think these will grow so well in temperate regions however.

I think raw comfrey would be a little too irritating. Perhaps if you lightly crushed the leaves first or quickly boiled and gently wrung them out you cloud use them as a wet wipe alternative.

Harry Greene

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posted 5 years ago

Nettles.

Dale Hodgins

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Location: Victoria British Columbia-Canada

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posted 5 years ago