Hops
The hops plant is often grown for interest in a garden, not always for its fruit. It was popular in Colonial gardens because the hops were used in the production of beer. These plants grow best in zones 4 through 11.
Additional Comments: Pliny referred to hops as 'willow wolf', because of its tendency to twine around willows and other trees.
Hops are fast growing, woody perennial, herbaceous vines in the hemp family (Cannabaceae) and is native of the northern hemisphere.
Hops
Hops information
Hops - Humulus lupulus (in the Cannabaceae or Hemp family) ...
Native Hops, Hop Bush, Hopseed Bush
These evergreen tropical shrubs are sticky and bear inconspicuous flower clusters and winged fruits. Use as a pruned hedge or large informal screen. Needs good drainage. Prune to shape.
Hops appear to have been used in the breweries of the Netherlands in the beginning of the fourteenth century. In England they were not used in the composition of beer till nearly two centuries afterwards.
Hops
Humulus lupulus
MEDICINAL: Hops is a sedative. Therefore, it is useful in treating insomnia and nervous tension. It is mild and safe. It is used in brewing beer and ales.
Hops were once widely believed to be a cause melancholia & suicide. Superstitious moderns have reversed this old belief, so that in aromatherapy, the mere odor of hops is used as a treatment for depression.
Hops (Humulus lupulus)
Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)
Houttuynia (Houttuynia cordata) (Vietnam)
Huacatay, Mexican marigold, mint marigold (Tagetes minuta)
Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) ...
Finally, hops may be started from seed, sown 1/4" deep, at 70-75F/21-24C; note that the resultant hop will differ from its parents
See Also
Hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) ...
Aureus Golden Hops [English]: Humulus lupulus 'Aureus'
Auri [English]: Acacia auriculiformis
Auricled Spleenwort [English]: Asplenium auritum
Auricled Twayblade [English]: Listera auriculata
Auricula-Tree [English]: Calotropis procera ...
Humulus lupulus. Hops Vine. An imported plant that sometimes escapes cultivation.
Botany in a Day
There are more
Hemp Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.
The conelike mature female flowers, called hops, are borne on different plants from the male; their loose scales contain lupulin, ...
This species was cultivated in Europe before 1440, used as a remedy for toothache, and mixed in ale in place of hops to increase the inebriating quality of the drink.
Fruit: Very distinctive, resembling hops. More specifically, a 1/4 inch nutlet is enclosed in a dried, leafy, inflated sac. Serveral sacs hang from one stem, 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches long; maturing in late summer and persisting through winter.
Spikes of rose-pink flowers resemble hops. After bloom in the summer and fall the bracts turn rose-purple. Needs full sun and occasional watering.
The herb has been added to beer in much the same way as hops in order to clear it and also to improve its flavour and keeping qualities[4, 183].
3299 Flemingia strobilifera
Luck Plant, Wild Hops. The plant is attracting with its long droopy bunch of dried bracts. It has attractive leaves too, with their neatly arranged veins.
3 gal pot, tall tree
5 Plant(s) in stock ...
buttonweed, false ironwort, knobweed, wild-hops
Family
Labiatae (South Australia)Lamiaceae (Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory) ...
Spent hops, peat, old mushroom-bed manure, decayed leaves, all are suitable and should be forked in during March, the ground having been dug and allowed to weather over winter.
In the picture at left, the maturing seed pods on the female catkins resemble those of hops (various vine Humulus species which are used to flavor beer). The dried male pollen-bearing catkin is in the center of the left picture.
Badge of clan Campbell.
Branches have been used as a substitute for hops in Yorkshire and put into a beer called 'Gale Beer.' Said to be extremely good to allay thirst.
Uses: ...
Humulus lupulus 'Aureus'
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Hardiness Zones:
1 ...
You also might want to consider nasturtium, scarlet runner bean, hyacinth bean, sweet potato vine, hops and morning glory.
Whatever the intended use or location, there's an annual vine to suit your situation.
small inflated pods in clusters
a hard nutlet is inside each pod
fruit clusters look like fruit of hops, hence the common name Hophornbeam
fruit change from green to tan ...
There are additional sources such as spent hops from breweries, seaweed and well-rotted sawdust. By and large, anything that has lived may, after death, be converted into humus. A compost heap is invaluable.
viscosa as a substitute for hops for brewing beer (as reflected in some of common names of this plant), a use also recorded from Iraq.
Fruit is a flattened nutlet about 5-8 mm long, enclosed in an inflated sac about 15 cm long, resembling the flower cluster of hops, hence the common name Hop-Hornbeam.
Sun or partial shade, best in cool, moist, well-drained, slightly acid soil.
Fruiting Habits:
Pendant 3-sided pod 0.5 to 1 inch long (12-25 mm), with 3 or 4 papery wings, containing 3 seeds, in late summer. The fruits have been used as a substitute for hops.
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The sticky purplish leaves are up to 4 inches long, the flowers are in modest greenish racemes and the 3/4-inch fruits with three wings form in clusters resembling hops.
Among the best materials are leaf mould, garden compost, spent mushroom compost, wood chippings, processed conifer bark, well rotted manure, straw (for strawberries), spent hops (poisonous if eaten by dogs) and seaweed.
Fruits: Nutlets enclosed by an inflated bladder, crowded together in a cluster resembling hops.
Notes: This species is often known as ironwood. The hard wood has been used for tool handles.
 See also: May, Green, Medic, Tea, Fruits
  
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