Notes on and photos of edible plants

Two Notes Before We Start

 * If it looks like carrots or parsley and you are not completely sure then leave it as it might be hemlock "they also cause troubles to botanists"




 * If it looks like garlic or chives smell it to see - it's edible

Day 1 - Lower Altitudes
European wild ginger (Asarum europaeum)

Tastes like sandalwood if you eat the root



Carnations (like this one) are all edible and this is a wild relative



Calamintha adriana - a type of mint, it has mild psychoactive in strong quantities



Mountain Savoury



This fern's root is sweet and bitter at once but without sugar



Salvia (relative of sage) flowers are light yellow



Wild carrot



Hairy stem (smooth stem is poisonous)

Leaves just beneath that point downwards

Black flower in the centre of white con fluorescence

Good King Henry

Looks like spinach grows in high places and is delicious!



Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea, Slovenian Brsljanasta grenjkuljica)



St Johns wort Oil infused is good for dry joints (rubbed) and sunburn, but to drink the tea makes you more susceptible to the sun's rays (may be part of antidepressant action helping you get more vitamin D?)



Day 2 - Higher Altitudes (Forest, Mountain Pastures, Above the Tree Line
Please forgive the less than perfect photos - or add better!

Mountain yarrow - infuse in alcohol to make absinthe. Also good tea for liver and gall bladder



Blueberries grow in the mountains



Mountain dandelion smells like cooked potato and tastes delicious (no picture)

Mushrooms like Liberty cap with long stem if crushed and turns blue it is psychoactive. Start with 1g dry. Has a nipple on top. (no picture)

This purple flower is edible





Thistles can be eaten by boiling in soup and takin out the spiny leaves (no picture)

This of the nasturtium family



Oxalis