no one can patent this weed like they can citrus through genetic modification patents. Even though its healthier by far, if it wont make money you wont hear about it and its labeled a dirty weed.
I have them all over my fence here in Ohio. They are not that fat though. I wonder if they are indeed 'Milkweed' I've been told that they are. When you break them open in late fall, they contain numerous flat-seeds with cotton-like-parachute tops. Are these (that grow upon my fences here, Milkweeds, do you think, even though they are much thinner and more 'comma' shaped?
@EatTheWeeds Thanks so much for the 'response'. I know you must be very busy. So I understand the rarity of your correspondence, & value it immensely. I respect your expert advice & opinion completely, sir, & will steer away from this 'ornamental-visitor'. As far as it being considered for a 'palatable future'? 'No! But will 'stay' its' place upon its' chained link summit. As I pledge to render unto all things, their 'due' consideration". JRH. Eat well my friend. I worry not, that you will. :-)
i know about this edible plant about 25 years now. i first learn about it from my mom. she said that milkweed vine is a edible plant that you also found in Asia. in poor 3rd world country most plant are consider as food. i have a very important discovery to tell you. In my country milkween vine seed is also use as medcine to cure asthma. you would boil water and add the seed, the water will turn dark brown like tea, an you would drink in.
@dopeboylai Take a closer look. It is probably a chayote, not a Morrenia odorata (unless you live in South America.) They look a lot alike but one is a squash with a large nut, the other is not.
Thanks...read more in Wikipedia, goldenrods are starting to bloom in the nature, that ought to attract them, haven't seen any since I stopped growing milkweed- their mother station.
when society crumbles and were running the bush from the government trying to put us in fema camps their will be a few of us who will know how to keep going.
@Uburalus Well.. onions are "poisonous" if you eat enough of them. Acorns are "poisonous" if you eat too many unleached. Illness is a range, from a mildly upset stomach (Commelinas to that to me) to Ilex glabra (makes me throw up) to water hemlock that can kill me painfully in two hours. Some plants can make you ill, others are deadly.
@Uburalus ....well... poisonous is a fuzzy word. The fruit is full of latex and if not cooked like many latex containing plants can make you ill. That is different than plants that can kill you within hours with no antidote. There is a difference between getting sick and dying with no hope of recovery. I have eaten the blossoms raw with no ill effects. The fruit should be cooked.
Great video. Suggestion: when giving identification info, showing the plant parts that you have access to would be helpful (leaves & stems, flowers and fruits if available).
Also, including the plant's range would be helpful.
I live in the mountains of western North Carolina. Have you ever thought of doing a class in this area ?? ( consider this a hint, you would have a free place to stay). Do you have any books published ?
Im really curious about the milkweed growing along my fenceline. I'll have to identify it now. I always let it grow there and had milkweed pod fights with my children and now their children! Had no idea that we maybe could have been eating them instead of pelting each other with them... Thanx Deane
Probably the least productive and most poisonous location for food sources is suburban landscaping. Even waste areas are far better. A very strange behavior. I have been planting native edibles that look as good as any. If it looks good and tastes good, I plant it.
Oh, I agree suburbia is not a good place to find food. The plant was there and it was a convenient location to do the video. As far as looks good and tastes good... some toxic plants look good and taste good. Please just make sure you have an edible. On my property I've planted nothing but edibles for landscaping.
I do so as well since its where I live though the nearby marsh is nice. What is so odd about US landscaping in particular is it often worsens the useful aspects and in particular edibility. I did find a use for the blood root that preceded me which I am experimenting with powdery mildew. Kill that. However the lily of the valley also preceded me and is in reality just a hazard since I have a young boy. Perhaps for me when I am 90 . I also think non native should be an exception.
95% is toxic or not edible. Most of the 95% will make you just sick, some of that 95% can kill you. Within any given area there are usually less than a dozen prime wild edibles. Add secondary edibles and you might be able to stretch that to two or three dozen. But as a forager, you will rely on less than a dozen edibles usually. It is far easier to learn those few edibles than the thousands of non-edibles. Toxic plants vary from region to region.
I have learned that 98% of plants growing in a lawn are good for food. Perhaps I should have said this plainer on the other page. There is a milk weed here in NC that has a pod that is boiled 3 times like poke then frittered in deep fry. This is the milk weed that if the pod isnt eaten it turns into those seeds that blow everywhere. And this isnt a vine.
Ha ha.... your lawn perhaps which probably has few ornamentals. Nationally some 75% of plant poisoning happen when a kid eats a plant in their yard, or their neighbor's yard. That is because when we moved off the farm to the suburbs we planted not edibles around our houses but toxic plants. Most of the plants used in landscaping are toxic, a rather sobering thought. You are probably referring to the weeds that like to pop up in your lawn. If you don't used pesticides they tend to be edibles.
When you boil your milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) them do you put them in cold water and bring it to a boil or do you get the water boiling first then put them in?.
Do you mean are most trees edible? No. 95% of the plants in a given area (including trees) are not edible. That is why one learns what is edible. It easier than learning what is not edible.
Said another way, the list of edible plants is far shorter than the list of toxic plants. There are some 20,000 plant poisonings in BC every year. Among the deadly ones in your area are the Poison Hemlock, the Water Hemlock, the Deadly Nightshade, azaleas, autum crocus, daffodils, many mushrooms, oleander, camas, foxglove, datura and a long list of ornamentals.
you quote a gov. list. This is way inaccurate. The test is in those that had no food and ate of the wild. That is the gold standard not a government that connects a boy scout to an IV because he is dehydrated from being lost beside a river for the past 2 days.
I went to your local poison control website. They list numerous deadly plants, several dozen toxic plants, and even more that will make you sick but not will you. Instead of learning the toxic plants and finding out the rest by trial and error, consider studying which ones are edible. That's a lot less work, less painful and less dangerous.
Dude, your are a freaking GENIUS!!! since hearing of you I have constantly went out to find what you show in your vids. I "i.t.e.m-ize" of course(just to make sure) but this stuff is the shiznat. I go fishing and dont even pack food. I just eat whats there until I catch something and then it becomes a varitable feast. You are one hell of a guy, keep it up. Some of us(like me) practically live in the woods. Well I actually do, I only come back to civilization every once in awhile. Keep it up.
You learn about plants as did most of the humans on this earth until a short time ago, from someone. Usually there is a local expert in the local chapter of the Native Plant Society, and for a $25 membership you get to learn quickly and safely, in seasons. One can learn from books but it is slow and fraught with danger. The biggest error is making a plant fit a description. You can have two plants that differ by one detail but that one detail can be the difference between edible and toxic.
In extreme southern Florida or father south you might confuse the Morrenia odorata with Cynanchum cubense. The blossoms of the C. cubense do not have star-like sepals. Too ripe (for cooking) is starting to turn yellow.
Well remember, I'm in Naples. Does cubense have a similar fruit?
I see that, at one time, milk vine's: "abundant coma [was] used for making pillows, for which purpose it is well fitted, as it is as soft as eider down."
Well... the latter is quite rare in extreme south Florida and I've never seen it with fruit, so I don't know. I do know the odorata is showing up in you area, certainly was two years ago.
I REALLY think you need to send a link tot this video to either food network or the travel channel the editing and styel of this video is just as good if not better thabn many shows I see on both networks, and havign a wild edibles show woudl be entirely new and interesting, this is your best vid yet!!!!!!! awesome Dean!
Thanks, and you're welcome. By the way the Dioscorea oppositifolia is supposed to be a problem weed in your area, and it has a root full of edible starch. It might not be too obvious now but later in the season it might and starchy roots are prime. Also has been reported in Bucyrus, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio
and Glouster, Ohio and the TNCs Edge of Appalachia Preserve System.
Ya know... professional botanista specialize and most of them don't know "nuthin" about edible wild plants. And many of the few who do, have a great disdain to do so. It is as if they think of themselves as at the top of the brain chain on plants and to eat a wild one is to be primitive. So, it is difficult to get botanists in positions of authority to see let alone endorse edibility. It just doesn't show up on their radar, kinda like health doesn't show up on doctors' screens either.
It is worth a try anyway. Imagine what would happen if say twenty thousand people, a small number compared to Florida's overall population, started eating this plant on a regular basis. The spread of the plant would most certainly reduced, provided people do not start cultivating it on purpose. (People cultivating it would probably increase its spread.)
The state says it is an escaped ornamental, and maybe they are right. They looked into in in 1957. But I am willing to bet it was cultivated for food by someone because it isn't ornamental. I suspect non-foragers figured it was ornamental not a food crop.
OH wow! You are really improving your broadcasting style. I almost thought I was watching the Public Television informational TV show, along side Antique roadshow and NOVA. NIce job Green! I would eat that weed if I lived in Florida. I'll bet you don't spend a whole lot of money on food! LOL
They are very tasty. They really are like a zucchini potato cross in flavor. I think they are much better cooked than raw. I'm just irritated it took me over a year to sort it all out.
Great video! Had never heard of this plant before, wish it grew up here in Virginia. I've really learned a lot from these videos. Thanks again Deane :)
I live in Lynchburg, Va. and they're all over here. Granted the fruit are narrower, smaller (about the size of ayour middle and index finger together) and more spear-head shaped, but they are definitely milkweeds. I've heard they're edible but have been leary of trying them because of the whole milky sap issue.
Make sure they are the same. Please be careful and research that well. I know the USDA is inept but they don't show it growing in your area. It is possible, however, and their records can be decades out of day. Just please be careful and get it right. Don't just use me and my blog. Seek out a local expert.
Just saw a fallow grove full of this vine in Ft. Pierce. Thanks for the video, very informative.
SapphireNightLupin 1 month ago
Awesome
Lisaj4431 3 months ago
no one can patent this weed like they can citrus through genetic modification patents. Even though its healthier by far, if it wont make money you wont hear about it and its labeled a dirty weed.
seansherk90 5 months ago
I have them all over my fence here in Ohio. They are not that fat though. I wonder if they are indeed 'Milkweed' I've been told that they are. When you break them open in late fall, they contain numerous flat-seeds with cotton-like-parachute tops. Are these (that grow upon my fences here, Milkweeds, do you think, even though they are much thinner and more 'comma' shaped?
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@FacetsOfTruth Different species. You are probably looking at cynanchum laeve, not edible as far as I know.
EatTheWeeds 5 months ago
@EatTheWeeds Thanks so much for the 'response'. I know you must be very busy. So I understand the rarity of your correspondence, & value it immensely. I respect your expert advice & opinion completely, sir, & will steer away from this 'ornamental-visitor'. As far as it being considered for a 'palatable future'? 'No! But will 'stay' its' place upon its' chained link summit. As I pledge to render unto all things, their 'due' consideration". JRH. Eat well my friend. I worry not, that you will. :-)
FacetsOfTruth 5 months ago
Green Deane, green bean, plants. Eh? Eh?
mrvideogamevideos 5 months ago
Green Jeans... or is it green genes?
EatTheWeeds 5 months ago
the whole plant has latex ok can't eat that one.. darn....!
enigma9444 6 months ago
Your videos are educational as well as entertaining, thank you , good job !
Also, can I find this plant growing in the state of NY ? I'd love to harvest some !
Zeuszgrl 7 months ago
@Zeuszgrl Little too cold to be outside but you could grow it in a pot.
EatTheWeeds 7 months ago
Definitely need this guy if your plannnig to organize a survival group. How about part II to this video.. weeds.. you can smoke! =)
danmarino1970 7 months ago
Can you recommend any edible vines that grow in Connecticut?
miketonon 7 months ago
@miketonon I do not know of any edible vines. But I do know some vines that have either edible fruit or roots.
EatTheWeeds 7 months ago
Any idea if it has a noxious hold on Southern California?
ehermes83 10 months ago
@ehermes83 The USDA map says no but such maps can be decades out of date.
EatTheWeeds 10 months ago
i know about this edible plant about 25 years now. i first learn about it from my mom. she said that milkweed vine is a edible plant that you also found in Asia. in poor 3rd world country most plant are consider as food. i have a very important discovery to tell you. In my country milkween vine seed is also use as medcine to cure asthma. you would boil water and add the seed, the water will turn dark brown like tea, an you would drink in.
buckhomnoi 1 year ago
@dopeboylai Take a closer look. It is probably a chayote, not a Morrenia odorata (unless you live in South America.) They look a lot alike but one is a squash with a large nut, the other is not.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@JimTheHermit Hmmm... can you eat fig newtons?
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Thanks...read more in Wikipedia, goldenrods are starting to bloom in the nature, that ought to attract them, haven't seen any since I stopped growing milkweed- their mother station.
LaMomB 1 year ago
I'd like to know what other plant than Milkweed can I grow as host plants to Monarch Butterfly?
LaMomB 1 year ago
@LaMomB Try dogbane cow parsnip, fennel, and dill
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds dill is beast
fppfisher 1 year ago
thanks
ncbookz 1 year ago
I am in LOVE with your knowledge of all the eattibles here in Fla.
I fI could get it SCANNED into my brain I just might.
frugalnanny 1 year ago
awesome
juglanscinerea 1 year ago
i love all your videos.
when society crumbles and were running the bush from the government trying to put us in fema camps their will be a few of us who will know how to keep going.
TheSlenderman 1 year ago
Yes,it sounds like the person who called it poisonous was being a bit melodramatic,thanks for the quick informative answer.
Uburalus 1 year ago
@Uburalus Well.. onions are "poisonous" if you eat enough of them. Acorns are "poisonous" if you eat too many unleached. Illness is a range, from a mildly upset stomach (Commelinas to that to me) to Ilex glabra (makes me throw up) to water hemlock that can kill me painfully in two hours. Some plants can make you ill, others are deadly.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Question,I hear if you don't prepare this one correctly it is poisonous,what do you know about that?
Uburalus 1 year ago
@Uburalus ....well... poisonous is a fuzzy word. The fruit is full of latex and if not cooked like many latex containing plants can make you ill. That is different than plants that can kill you within hours with no antidote. There is a difference between getting sick and dying with no hope of recovery. I have eaten the blossoms raw with no ill effects. The fruit should be cooked.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Question,I hear if you don't prepare this one correctly it is poisonous,what do you know about that?
Uburalus 1 year ago
Great video. Suggestion: when giving identification info, showing the plant parts that you have access to would be helpful (leaves & stems, flowers and fruits if available).
Also, including the plant's range would be helpful.
Thanks!
Jefferdaughter 1 year ago
@Jefferdaughter Thanks, I can. That stuff is usally on my web page about that plant.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds - Thanks. So much info, so little time.
Jefferdaughter 1 year ago
I live in the mountains of western North Carolina. Have you ever thought of doing a class in this area ?? ( consider this a hint, you would have a free place to stay). Do you have any books published ?
lukin2lurn 1 year ago
lol, Awsome video. thanx.
TheBrassHole 1 year ago
Im really curious about the milkweed growing along my fenceline. I'll have to identify it now. I always let it grow there and had milkweed pod fights with my children and now their children! Had no idea that we maybe could have been eating them instead of pelting each other with them... Thanx Deane
skullylovesroland 1 year ago
The vine grows only in warmer areas. There are other edible milkweeds, mostly up north. So make sure ou have the right genus and species.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
How about Kudzu. I do believe it is an unused herb. Can you do a vedio about it?
firebrandsgirl 1 year ago
Did one.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
If I PM you my address, would you send me some seeds? =)
FoodOrFail 2 years ago
WHen there are some, sure.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
This video is definitely a keeper!
johnu78 2 years ago
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I appreciate all your hard work on these videos!
66scjohnston 2 years ago
this one seems really interesting and nutritious. i hope i can find some around here.
Nishiki83 2 years ago
where is the original homeland of the milkweed vine?
NeonBKP 2 years ago
South America, Argentina I think,
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
absolutely love your videos in toronto! eat the weeds, indeed! thankyou!
yorkcmh 2 years ago
Interesting video. Thanks...
hiedi11 2 years ago
Probably the least productive and most poisonous location for food sources is suburban landscaping. Even waste areas are far better. A very strange behavior. I have been planting native edibles that look as good as any. If it looks good and tastes good, I plant it.
gwynedd1 2 years ago
Oh, I agree suburbia is not a good place to find food. The plant was there and it was a convenient location to do the video. As far as looks good and tastes good... some toxic plants look good and taste good. Please just make sure you have an edible. On my property I've planted nothing but edibles for landscaping.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
I do so as well since its where I live though the nearby marsh is nice. What is so odd about US landscaping in particular is it often worsens the useful aspects and in particular edibility. I did find a use for the blood root that preceded me which I am experimenting with powdery mildew. Kill that. However the lily of the valley also preceded me and is in reality just a hazard since I have a young boy. Perhaps for me when I am 90 . I also think non native should be an exception.
gwynedd1 2 years ago
95% is toxic or not edible. Most of the 95% will make you just sick, some of that 95% can kill you. Within any given area there are usually less than a dozen prime wild edibles. Add secondary edibles and you might be able to stretch that to two or three dozen. But as a forager, you will rely on less than a dozen edibles usually. It is far easier to learn those few edibles than the thousands of non-edibles. Toxic plants vary from region to region.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
You keep on believeing that and pick according to the gov. standards if you choose. I however choose another path. God bless
ApostleRon 2 years ago
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Are most vines eddible?
sts3235 2 years ago
Are most vinew eddible?
sts3235 2 years ago
No, most vines like most plants, are not edible. Only about 5% of all plants are edible.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
I have learned that 98% of plants growing in a lawn are good for food. Perhaps I should have said this plainer on the other page. There is a milk weed here in NC that has a pod that is boiled 3 times like poke then frittered in deep fry. This is the milk weed that if the pod isnt eaten it turns into those seeds that blow everywhere. And this isnt a vine.
ApostleRon 2 years ago
I would do a video on your species of milkweed but it doesn't grow here. But I used to eat a lot of it long ago up north.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Ahhhhhh, yes, LOL my kinda man. God bless. Godswifedotcom
ApostleRon 2 years ago
Ha ha.... your lawn perhaps which probably has few ornamentals. Nationally some 75% of plant poisoning happen when a kid eats a plant in their yard, or their neighbor's yard. That is because when we moved off the farm to the suburbs we planted not edibles around our houses but toxic plants. Most of the plants used in landscaping are toxic, a rather sobering thought. You are probably referring to the weeds that like to pop up in your lawn. If you don't used pesticides they tend to be edibles.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
I use nothing to poison my yard. period. I walk in my yard and see 98% food. Perhaps your lawn needs cleaning? LOL,
ApostleRon 2 years ago
When you boil your milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) them do you put them in cold water and bring it to a boil or do you get the water boiling first then put them in?.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
How about trees?
sts3235 2 years ago
Do you mean are most trees edible? No. 95% of the plants in a given area (including trees) are not edible. That is why one learns what is edible. It easier than learning what is not edible.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
I just need to know what's toxic. Everything else I'll eventually find out by trial and error.
sts3235 2 years ago
Said another way, the list of edible plants is far shorter than the list of toxic plants. There are some 20,000 plant poisonings in BC every year. Among the deadly ones in your area are the Poison Hemlock, the Water Hemlock, the Deadly Nightshade, azaleas, autum crocus, daffodils, many mushrooms, oleander, camas, foxglove, datura and a long list of ornamentals.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
you quote a gov. list. This is way inaccurate. The test is in those that had no food and ate of the wild. That is the gold standard not a government that connects a boy scout to an IV because he is dehydrated from being lost beside a river for the past 2 days.
ApostleRon 2 years ago
I went to your local poison control website. They list numerous deadly plants, several dozen toxic plants, and even more that will make you sick but not will you. Instead of learning the toxic plants and finding out the rest by trial and error, consider studying which ones are edible. That's a lot less work, less painful and less dangerous.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
no doubt, the gov. actually lists dandy lion as being harful. we both know that plant is edible from the top to the root,or do we?(I do)
ApostleRon 2 years ago
I live in East Texas and will have to look for the plant.
PartisonConfederate 2 years ago
The USDA say it isn't there but the USDA can be decades out of date. If you have mild winters it could be there.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
another great vid dean
kryptiea 2 years ago
Thanks for posting these videos. They are very educational. Great stuff!
desertsurvivalist 2 years ago
Thanks... the desert has its own challenges....
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Dude, your are a freaking GENIUS!!! since hearing of you I have constantly went out to find what you show in your vids. I "i.t.e.m-ize" of course(just to make sure) but this stuff is the shiznat. I go fishing and dont even pack food. I just eat whats there until I catch something and then it becomes a varitable feast. You are one hell of a guy, keep it up. Some of us(like me) practically live in the woods. Well I actually do, I only come back to civilization every once in awhile. Keep it up.
Caveman0713 2 years ago
Thanks ... just don't eat any water hemlock or you won't come back from fishing... Be careful, and please get a local to help you.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
So, if botanists don't pay particular attention to edible wild plants and the USDA is inept, how does one become an expert?
DANE842 2 years ago
You learn about plants as did most of the humans on this earth until a short time ago, from someone. Usually there is a local expert in the local chapter of the Native Plant Society, and for a $25 membership you get to learn quickly and safely, in seasons. One can learn from books but it is slow and fraught with danger. The biggest error is making a plant fit a description. You can have two plants that differ by one detail but that one detail can be the difference between edible and toxic.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
The plant looks familiar Deane, but I do not recall ever seeing that fruit on one.
Are there any mimics in S Fla? Also, could you define a little more what "too ripe" looks like?
Great video-thanks!
onetraveler 2 years ago
In extreme southern Florida or father south you might confuse the Morrenia odorata with Cynanchum cubense. The blossoms of the C. cubense do not have star-like sepals. Too ripe (for cooking) is starting to turn yellow.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Well remember, I'm in Naples. Does cubense have a similar fruit?
I see that, at one time, milk vine's: "abundant coma [was] used for making pillows, for which purpose it is well fitted, as it is as soft as eider down."
onetraveler 2 years ago
The answer is I don't know. They are not in the same family but young vines look similar. The flowers are distinctly different.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Thanks...I'll double check that should I come across either one.
onetraveler 2 years ago
Well... the latter is quite rare in extreme south Florida and I've never seen it with fruit, so I don't know. I do know the odorata is showing up in you area, certainly was two years ago.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
I REALLY think you need to send a link tot this video to either food network or the travel channel the editing and styel of this video is just as good if not better thabn many shows I see on both networks, and havign a wild edibles show woudl be entirely new and interesting, this is your best vid yet!!!!!!! awesome Dean!
cutlerylover 2 years ago 2
I envy the beard, mean deane.
enjoistaind 2 years ago
Thanks... I've worn a beard for 37 years and two months, give or take one or two days... I started one the day I got out of the army.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Love your video's !
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yyf147258 2 years ago
Great job dean and thanks for the ID on the photo I sent to you. Although non edible it is useful. Thanks
wildernessoutfitters 2 years ago
Thanks, and you're welcome. By the way the Dioscorea oppositifolia is supposed to be a problem weed in your area, and it has a root full of edible starch. It might not be too obvious now but later in the season it might and starchy roots are prime. Also has been reported in Bucyrus, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio
and Glouster, Ohio and the TNCs Edge of Appalachia Preserve System.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Yes most men go for young and tender... hehehe
dazigg 2 years ago
Maybe you should contact the state government and convince them to start a public information campaign to get people eating them.
Ultimate weed control!
BoingotheClown 2 years ago
Ya know... professional botanista specialize and most of them don't know "nuthin" about edible wild plants. And many of the few who do, have a great disdain to do so. It is as if they think of themselves as at the top of the brain chain on plants and to eat a wild one is to be primitive. So, it is difficult to get botanists in positions of authority to see let alone endorse edibility. It just doesn't show up on their radar, kinda like health doesn't show up on doctors' screens either.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Ha ha. :-)
It is worth a try anyway. Imagine what would happen if say twenty thousand people, a small number compared to Florida's overall population, started eating this plant on a regular basis. The spread of the plant would most certainly reduced, provided people do not start cultivating it on purpose. (People cultivating it would probably increase its spread.)
BoingotheClown 2 years ago
The state says it is an escaped ornamental, and maybe they are right. They looked into in in 1957. But I am willing to bet it was cultivated for food by someone because it isn't ornamental. I suspect non-foragers figured it was ornamental not a food crop.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Great video. Does this weed range as far as Oklahoma?
adramatictheme 2 years ago
I don't think so, but you could grow it in a pot and overwinter it.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
OH wow! You are really improving your broadcasting style. I almost thought I was watching the Public Television informational TV show, along side Antique roadshow and NOVA. NIce job Green! I would eat that weed if I lived in Florida. I'll bet you don't spend a whole lot of money on food! LOL
HomesteadProvocateur 2 years ago
By the time I get to 100 I'll have to go back and re do those early videos....
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Wow, they look rather tasty!
I'll have look to see if I can get some seeds and plant them in my garden.
Yes, I'll check carefully with a local expert, if I can find one:-) You are very good at drilling that into us.
Great research on your part by the way.
Thanks for another great video Green Deane!
fbt2007 2 years ago
They are very tasty. They really are like a zucchini potato cross in flavor. I think they are much better cooked than raw. I'm just irritated it took me over a year to sort it all out.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Sorry... raise this.... afternoon wine got in the way....
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Nice presentation. Seemed to have a bit of extra flair.
Yakshinian 2 years ago
Well... got to do something different now and then or me and thee get bored. Don't forget you can rise this in a pot in northern climates.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Five Stars!!
MadBadVoodo 2 years ago
You are good for my soul... thanks....
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
What about skunk cabbage is that edible?
Odanrot 2 years ago
With proper preparation parts of Spathyema foetida is edible.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
Great video! Had never heard of this plant before, wish it grew up here in Virginia. I've really learned a lot from these videos. Thanks again Deane :)
Paladin57 2 years ago
There is little doubt that foragers here about have no idea it is edible. You can plant it in a pot, then take in in to over winter.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
I live in Lynchburg, Va. and they're all over here. Granted the fruit are narrower, smaller (about the size of ayour middle and index finger together) and more spear-head shaped, but they are definitely milkweeds. I've heard they're edible but have been leary of trying them because of the whole milky sap issue.
0takop 2 years ago
Make sure they are the same. Please be careful and research that well. I know the USDA is inept but they don't show it growing in your area. It is possible, however, and their records can be decades out of day. Just please be careful and get it right. Don't just use me and my blog. Seek out a local expert.
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago
....out of date...my fingers are not working tonight...
EatTheWeeds 2 years ago