Green Milkweed Pods. I don t want to interfere with the seed production. Thank you all for your monarch rescue missions.
The useful part about it from my perspective is that milkweed silk is often at an edible stage when the outer green shell has become too stringy to enjoy so even if you re a little late to the party at the milkweed patch it doesn t mean you have to go home empty handed just crack open the pods to make sure the seeds don t have any. Huge collection amazing choice 100 million high quality affordable rf and rm images. Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants known as milkweeds named for their latex a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides exuded where cells are damaged.
But the pods are not open yet and they are faded green still a little spongy.
Huge collection amazing choice 100 million high quality affordable rf and rm images. If it does not open readily the seed inside is immature. Milkweed flower color varies across species and can be white yellow green purple pink orange or red. Milkweed seed planted in fall is naturally stratified.