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    Default Wild plants which are beneficial.

    Please add your entries in this thread, and feel free to include plants we DON'T WANT growing in our plot.

    I'll start here with the Stinging Nettle...





    and the Dandelion...



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    That staple of late summer foraging - blackberries! Eat them raw, or they're also lovely stewed with apple and baked in a crumble or pie; blackberry jam, or jelly if you take the trouble to strain the juice; blackberry vinegar is also excellent for winter colds.

    It's best to find some well away from roads so that they've not been polluted from car exhausts. Some facts:

    "Rich in flavour and nutrients, blackberries are a perfect snack to enjoy straight from the punnet.

    Blackberries are brimming with flavonoids, a type of antioxidant that gives the blackberry its colour
    Blackberries contain high amounts of salicylic acid which is great for your skin
    Blackberries contain astringent tannins that are great for oral hygiene
    A handful of blackberries provide half an adult’s RDA of manganese, necessary for bone development and nutrient absorption
    Blackberries contain a wide range of nutrients, including vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, potassium and magnesium as well as fibre and other plant nutrients that have numerous health benefits. These include flavonoids, which have powerful anti-inflammatory and immune system benefits. They also give blackberries their deep purple colour.
    Eating berries, especially blackberries, could have a role to play in wound healing. effective for those with sores, ulcers or other wounds.The new research analysed the anti-inflammatory and wound healing properties of a selection of strawberry and blackberry fruits. The scientists found that blackberries were particularly good at helping to suppress reactive oxygen species (molecules that are produced when tissues are injured). Berry proanthocyanidins – the very compounds that give berries their red, blue, or purple colours also appeared to reduce nitric oxide synthesis – a compound also involved in wound repair."

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    10 Wild Edible Greens, note this is from a mid-american region atlantic coast - but No's 1 and 4 are (drum roll) the Stinging Nettle and Dandelion (see OP).

    From a latitude POV similar plants, if not identical plants, can often be found growing across the whole planet. Use the Latin naming system and search for local varities if uncertain. (Don't eat anything unless you are certain!, people can die from eating the wrong thing!!)

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    Also on the topic of berries - if you're lucky to be near moorland, you can forage for bilberries (aka blaeberries or whortleberries). I've seen them on the North York Moors, also when I lived near to the foothills of the Black Mountains in Wales. I collected loads in Wales and froze them for later use; they're smaller and a bit more tart than blueberries, but - they are very similar in nutritional value to blueberries, which cost a lot of money in the supermarket! Invest a bit of time, and you can get them for free!
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    Default Re: Wild plants which are beneficial.

    Quote Posted by Brigantia (here)
    Also on the topic of berries - if you're lucky to be near moorland, you can forage for bilberries (aka blaeberries or whortleberries). I've seen them on the North York Moors, also when I lived near to the foothills of the Black Mountains in Wales. I collected loads in Wales and froze them for later use; they're smaller and a bit more tart than blueberries, but - they are very similar in nutritional value to blueberries, which cost a lot of money in the supermarket! Invest a bit of time, and you can get them for free!
    Family regularly picks these when we go for walks up around Rothbury, very common in the highlands of Scotland too.

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    Quote Posted by Ewan (here)
    Don't eat anything unless you are certain!, people can die from eating the wrong thing!!
    Absolutely Ewan - that can never be stressed enough. Foraging groups and courses can be found around the UK (and probably in other parts of the world) for anyone who may be uncertain or who doesn't know where to start, especially for anyone looking to forage mushrooms as you really need to know what you're looking for there - best to leave well alone if inexperienced.

    There's this classic book on UK foraging by Richard Mabey that can be obtained at a reasonable price secondhand, it's a useful guide for beginners.
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    When I was growing up, my parents would show us kids the wild plants they ate.
    This one is memorable because it grew not only in the wild in southern Ohio but also in the mountains of Tennessee where my parents were from.
    Delicious.
    There's a folk song too, lol, Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch.

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    A few that grow everywhere around here ...

    Wild plantain, edible and medicinal:


    Wild chamomile, grows everywhere, some varieties have petals on the flowers, some do not, all good:


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    One of the best culinary fungi ever - the morel. Doesn't farm well, so they are most often wild picked.



    Lamb's quarters, also sometimes called pigweed ... seriously one of the best greens ever and it grows everywhere ... literally everywhere. It is so good sauteed in butter with salt and pepper, puts spinach to shame! Just had some for supper! The kind we get around here doesn't grow big like this, maybe two feet at most. Best when harvested young.

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    Mullein is a plant - commonly regarded as a prolific weed - that is regarded by herbalists to be very beneficial to people with respiratory problems. Dried mullein leaf can be smoked, but not to excess - taking it as a tea is best. Steep 1 to 2 teaspoons of dried mullein leaf in hot water and let it steep for about 10 minutes.

    "Mullein is a flowering plant, scientifically named Verbascum thapsus, that has long been used in herbal medicine. It originally grew in Europe and Western Asia, but it now grows in other places as well, including the United States and Canada. It’s also found in New Zealand. It thrives in a wide variety of environments including meadows, chapparal, deciduous forests, and evergreen forests. Because it does well in rocky soil, it may even be found growing as a weed in gravel pits or even next to the side of the road.

    It’s a biennial plant, which means it lives for two growing seasons. During its first season, it produces a gathering of fuzzy leaves. The second year, the plant produces a tall stalk from the top that grows small yellow flowers.

    Herbal medicinal practitioners use the flowers, leaves, and roots of mullein for a few different purposes, but more study may be needed to prove their efficacy and safety from a scientific perspective.

    Health Benefits
    Mullein can be used as a supplement, but it’s very commonly consumed as a tea, brewed from parts of the plant with hot water to extract some of its nutrients and benefits.

    Help with Breathing Difficulty
    Herbal medicine specialists, naturopaths, and other types of health practitioners may recommend mullein for:

    Asthma
    Cough
    Common cold
    Bronchitis
    COPD

    Mullein is an expectorant, which means it helps the body expel excess mucus, usually by helping make your coughs more productive, to bring up mucus that may be settling in the chest or in the throat. It is also a demulcent. Studies show that demulcents create a soothing anti-inflammatory coating over mucous membranes. Demulcents contain a higher amount of mucilage than other plants. All plants produce at least a little of this sticky substance, which provides soothing relief to the mucous membranes.

    Both qualities make it useful for soothing irritation of the lungs, throat, and bronchial passages that may lead to difficulty breathing."
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    Just a further note on the use of blackberries, this is a gardening tip.

    If you have slugs and snails decimating tender plants and want to avoid the use of chemicals, cut some blackberry stems (found in any hedgerow here in the UK). Let them dry out for a bit and once they've turned brown, the stem will be dried out and the barbs will be really hard and sharp. Cut them so that you can arrange them round the plants that need protection; that will be an impenetrable barrier to slugs and snails.

    I've used this successfully this year - wearing gloves to handle them of course!

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    When you are one step ahead of the crowd, you are a genius.
    Two steps ahead, and you are deemed a crackpot.

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    Quote Posted by Brigantia (here)
    Quote Posted by Ewan (here)
    Don't eat anything unless you are certain!, people can die from eating the wrong thing!!
    Absolutely Ewan - that can never be stressed enough. Foraging groups and courses can be found around the UK (and probably in other parts of the world) for anyone who may be uncertain or who doesn't know where to start, especially for anyone looking to forage mushrooms as you really need to know what you're looking for there - best to leave well alone if inexperienced.

    There's this classic book on UK foraging by Richard Mabey that can be obtained at a reasonable price secondhand, it's a useful guide for beginners.

    Thanks Ewan for the thread.. great one and very important.. posting below is just a general warning

    That's damn right to always stress how important it is, specially nowadays with all these so called AI Apps that can recognize a great variety of plants/fungis.. I will give a warning here, these Apps are usually very bug and already there is cases around the world of people getting in real trouble after the App identify a mushroom as edible, when in reality it was poisonous.

    Don't risk your life in the hands of the so called AI.

    Just imagine, there is more than 15K different species of mushrooms documented, many of it are extremely generic and similar in their looks, other can be easily distinctive from each other.

    Watch out, I myself got poisoned by one here in Thailand years ago, I thought for a moment I was going to die, it was a terrible experience (I am not even talking about the magic ones ). The one I ate was very similar to the straw mushroom very common found in the rice paddy, it grows in the wild and can be cultivated as crop, but the one I ate was poisonous (I believe it was the one called "amanita phalloides" a.k.a. Death Cap), I was very luck, some toxins attacks the liver and from there, nothing much can be done for what I know, it take from 2 to 10 days to cause death.

    .. and apologies for going off-topic, because mushrooms are not plants, they belong to the fungi kingdom.
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    Quote Posted by Brigantia (here)
    Mullein is a plant - commonly regarded as a prolific weed - that is regarded by herbalists to be very beneficial to people with respiratory problems. Dried mullein leaf can be smoked, but not to excess - taking it as a tea is best. Steep 1 to 2 teaspoons of dried mullein leaf in hot water and let it steep for about 10 minutes.

    "Mullein is a flowering plant, scientifically named Verbascum thapsus, that has long been used in herbal medicine. It originally grew in Europe and Western Asia, but it now grows in other places as well, including the United States and Canada. It’s also found in New Zealand. It thrives in a wide variety of environments including meadows, chapparal, deciduous forests, and evergreen forests. Because it does well in rocky soil, it may even be found growing as a weed in gravel pits or even next to the side of the road.

    It’s a biennial plant, which means it lives for two growing seasons. During its first season, it produces a gathering of fuzzy leaves. The second year, the plant produces a tall stalk from the top that grows small yellow flowers.

    Herbal medicinal practitioners use the flowers, leaves, and roots of mullein for a few different purposes, but more study may be needed to prove their efficacy and safety from a scientific perspective.

    Health Benefits
    Mullein can be used as a supplement, but it’s very commonly consumed as a tea, brewed from parts of the plant with hot water to extract some of its nutrients and benefits.

    Help with Breathing Difficulty
    Herbal medicine specialists, naturopaths, and other types of health practitioners may recommend mullein for:

    Asthma
    Cough
    Common cold
    Bronchitis
    COPD

    Mullein is an expectorant, which means it helps the body expel excess mucus, usually by helping make your coughs more productive, to bring up mucus that may be settling in the chest or in the throat. It is also a demulcent. Studies show that demulcents create a soothing anti-inflammatory coating over mucous membranes. Demulcents contain a higher amount of mucilage than other plants. All plants produce at least a little of this sticky substance, which provides soothing relief to the mucous membranes.

    Both qualities make it useful for soothing irritation of the lungs, throat, and bronchial passages that may lead to difficulty breathing."
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    I love Mullein and off the top of my head even the yellow flowers can be made into a tincture for earache and ear infection.
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    How about the radish greens and beet greens, they’re not wild plants but I do love them. I love sautιed greens from these, they are so good.
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    I've just come across this lovely lady who lives in Ireland and is a herbalist; this video (just over a quarter of an hour) is about the uses of all the parts of a dandelion. She also does a herbalism course online, I'm tempted...


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    Hi Ewan, I will pinch something in

    I once was amazed about the so many types of basil there are and their uses, so far I have no idea how many types there are but the estimation goes around 150 types, but every time I dig into it, I find one or two new types..

    There is a wild one found everywhere in Thailand, it grows like weed, it has the best aroma and taste that I can tell, and also the best medicinal properties, that is why it is called Holy Basil (aka in India as Sacred Basil and Kaphrao (กะเพรา) in Thai), the scientific name is Ocimum sanctum or Ocimum tenuiflorum and it grow from tropical to sub-tropical regions. I saw this plant thriving even in cold climates in vases, it is very resistant but develops better in sunny places planted directly on the ground, no need watering and it is a perennial plant, once established you will always have it.

    Now here is a little list of basil cultivars (the most common ones), I never heard before of "African Blue Basil", they say it is aromatic and smells like camphor.



    source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_basil_cultivars
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    Bidens alba (also known as Spanish Needle) is a medicinal plant with many benefits. Some of the benefits of Bidens alba include
    Bidens actions:
    • Antibacterial
    • Antidiabetic
    • Antidysenteric
    • Anti-inflammatory
    • Antimalarial
    • Antimicrobial
    • Antiseptic
    • Astringent
    • Blood tonic
    • Carminative
    • Diuretic
    • Galactagogue
    • Hepatoprotective
    • Hypoglycemic
    • Hypotensive
    • Immunomodulant
    • Mucous Membrane tonic
    • Neuroprotectant
    • Prostaglandin synthesis inhibitor
    • Styptic
    • Vulnerary

    Bidens is active against:
    • Bacillus cereus
    • Bacillus subtilis
    • Candida albicans
    • Human cytomegalovirus
    • Entamoeba histolytica
    • Enterococcus faecalis (Streptococcus faecalis)
    • Escherichia coli
    • Herpes simplex 1 and 2
    • Kiebsiella pneumonia
    • Leishmania amazonensis
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    • Neisseria gonorhoeae
    • Plasmodium spp.
    • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    • Salmonella spp.
    • Serratia marcescens
    • Shigella Flexneri
    • Staphylococcus aureus
    • Staphylococcus epidermidis
    • Bidens is not very active against Aspergillus, a fungus that affects people with a weakened immune system.


    Source: https://jennifersjourneythrough.weeb.../bidens-alba#/

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