Cinquefoil Identification and Edibility
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2022
- This cinquefoil species is edible and has health benefits as well. Potentilla recta is considered noxious in some places but it is incredibly useful! For more info see the following:
- Sulphur Cinquefoil (identification, distinguishing features, flowers, leaves, height, habitat & edible parts): www.ediblewildfood.com/sulphu...
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I just found one cinquefoil growing near a ditch in my yard. Since I have been trying to learn (relearn) about medicinal plants, I googled it. Then I found your video. I enjoyed it and look forward to watching more. Thanks!
Thank you for your kind words and for watching!
Thank you for your qualitative content dear, infused with helpful usability input and I love to hear about traditional/cultural uses/history. Much love
Thank you for your kind words and thank you for watching!
Thank you for sharing this information. I really enjoy your videos and the depth you go into as you explain. I don't think I have any growing around here but may get some seeds. God bless!
Ah thank you so much! I truly am grateful you are here!
Cool plant!
Karen, we have a supine cinquefoil down here in Arkansas USA that looks very similar to a wild strawberry plant and has only 5 leaflets, true to its name.
The Potentillas are truly unique! I looked up Potentilla supina and according to the PFAF website the leaves are edible!
@@EdibleWildFood-1 Interesting! I used the correct word for the taxonomy without really intending to. And I looked up the word "supine" to be sure I was using it correctly. Ha! 😄
@@notmyworld44 Our brains are sponges and throughout our lifetime we absorb so much. Then, there are moments such as what you experienced, in which something comes out and surprises us!!
@@EdibleWildFood-1 I think I dislocated my shoulder while trying to pat myself on the back. 😉
@@notmyworld44 Lol.... I just made some comfrey/heal all/elderflower salve that may help!! That's my next vid I am posting on Tuesday!!!!
It's topping the hill in my front yard where kudzu use to grow. I'm excited and when I googled it your video came up so of course, since the video was relevant to my question, what is it and can I use it, I liked and subscribed.
Welcome and thank you for subscribing! I am truly appreciative!
I'm new and l'm subscribed! 😂 ❤👍
And I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
So can you eat the leaves/flowers? You said it was edible but didn’t elaborate much about that
Yes - both.
Are the flowers and pedals edible
Not that I am aware of.
I guess the nutrients from flowers and leaves would be different, and therefore, harvest for consumption should include both parts of the plant. Flowers are usually good, and I do not recommend them to everybody but what I tried was I consumed many kinds of known and unknown flowers, and never had any digestive issues.
I have not been able to find any data on the nutrients in the flowers although I am sure they contain some phytonutrients!
Hello have a question about quality written books by someone who has done their research.
I have listed to many people who are supposed to be the top in the field
I will not mention names but almost all fall short on their plant research and just repeat incomplete and inaccurate information like parots.
Take a plant that is eaten by thousands of people like Pokeweed.
They say don't eat the berries they are poisonous you have to cook it to death before you eat it. I have eaten the berries right off the plant didn't even get a stomach ache.
Or black nightshade do not eat poisonous.
It is the same in the canning world people in any other country would be rolling on the floor laughing at most of the silly rules we have about canning food and plants that we should not eat.
Just wondering if if you knowledge of any book that actually states facts about plants not hearsay and unscientificly proven nonsense about plants.
Like why is Pokeweed bad because it has saponins in it.
Will it kill you or just make you want to die because it gave you the shits.
Good question
This is a great question that requires a thoughtful answer. I cannot speak for every author, but as an author myself I can speak based on my experiences.
First, some books may be older and the information gathered is dated and science may have discovered something that alters what was presented in the book. For example, I was taught (and many books verified) that tansy is not edible - - yet nowadays there is some science "suggesting" that it may be but this science is not conclusive. Science evolves.
Next, some authors do what I call a "skim job" on research. They go to the internet, maybe some books, and even to others who have credibility. Some do not go to botanical, scientific journals that offer AMAZING information. Some journals require membership fees that cost a bit. I know - I subscribe to some. So these book writers are presenting some valuable information - just not the whole picture - - and again, perhaps dated information.
Here is a biggie from my perspective. I have two books coming out this year. One is for the beginner mushroom forager (release date Sept). The other I am currently working on and cannot divulge the topic until the editor gives me the green light.
These are not "self-published" - - I have to follow guidelines given to me by the "traditional" publisher. There was some wiggle room for change, not a lot. So - if the books you are questioning were published traditionally this may be the issue for those authors - they had to work within some constraints.
A huge answer - a lot of reading but I hoped this has helped. As for wild plant books with only science-backed information? If I ever find one I will let you know.
The reason is the medical complex is huge. They do not want plants to take away from their medicines. The second reason is that people are lazy sheep, they do not do the work, they use others work lightly and if they come across anything like..it's poisonous..they steer clear cause who knows? who wants to be sued?? You are in your own learning. I started by foraging and looking at ingredients in everything!
@@blueskies6475 A VERY good book to have is "Hard to Swallow" by Doris Sarjeant and Karen Evans - - this should be a text book used in schools.
You hit the nail on the head. Here in the states, commercial interests and making money is the overriding and protected interests.
There is no money to ne made if you can forage for it. For example, as you point out, canning and food preservation is a well protected industry. Whatever did my grandmom do without a pressure canner. According to "the science" me and my siblings should have statistically gotten very sick and possibly died because her water bath canning is suppose to be substandard and put us at risk for botulism. Yet despite eating many meals from her preservation methods, it never happened and I know of no one, raised the same way, who ever got sick.
As for Poke, we always harvested and ate it when it was in season. I'm still here to tell you about it. Yet today, "science says" we shouldn't eat it. Same goes for sasparilla. We drank it as tea, but suddenly it became bad for you once artificial root beer flavor became a thing.
When I research things, i do look to see if there is a scientific study to indicate safety. But know that when they do scientific studies, it is usually on animals not humans and they give an isolated component found in the plant often in doses thousands of time higher than what you would routinely be consuming.
I like to focus on how it was used in folk medicine.
Is rough cinquefoil edible???
Yes - but certainly not that tasty!