Are these edible?

Watermelon · 31-07-2011, 10:03 PM

Hello everyone, These are plants round the neighbourhood which I always pass and think... next time I need to take a pic of this ask for identification!!!

First photos are the photos of whole plant then the second photo are pics close up of the plant, or some there is only one.

Plant 1.

Plant 2 Is it groundsel?

Plant 3

Plant 4

Thanks

alley cat · 31-07-2011, 10:23 PM

Hi, 1. Hydrangea 3. Somekind of Laurel? Can't feed either of those I don't think.

**Alan1** · 31-07-2011, 10:40 PM

1 hydrangea.. no
2 ragwort .. no
3 laurel type .. no
4 hedge mustard maybe? if so I think it's edible

Ozric Jonathan · 31-07-2011, 11:47 PM

I agree with Alan. Can you get a pic of the leaf for the last one? I think it is a mustard but maybe not hedge mustard. The others are def not suiatble.

Watermelon · 31-07-2011, 11:50 PM

Heya there wasnt any leaves as such, just the stick leaves as you can see on the pic 2nd to last! Ill go back and get some different pics of it when I can, thanks guys.

**Alan1** · 03-08-2011, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Watermelon

Heya there wasnt any leaves as such, just the stick leaves as you can see on the pic 2nd to last! Ill go back and get some different pics of it when I can, thanks guys.

that last one looks like behind you there is a whole field of it, is that right? It's too late in the year to be a field of oil seed rape in flower so if it is a whole field of something I'm not sure what it can be. A related plant to oil seed rape maybe. I have seen up in the hills in winter time a couple of fields of yellow flowered plants that I didn't know what they were, they looked a bit like oil seed rape but weren't as tall and it wasn't a complete mass of yellow. It must have been something capable of growing on poor soil because nothing else grows up there, no other crops, it's all sheep. I did wonder if it was feed for sheep, I think it must have been

Anita Sayles · 03-08-2011, 07:56 AM

I can't quite see an individual flower from your pics, but could it be Brassica rapa... http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/biow...g=en&detail=59

**16 shells** · 03-08-2011, 07:14 PM

Snot Wild Cabbage is it, four yellow petal's.

**Alan1** · 03-08-2011, 11:18 PM

I actually saw a field of that stuff tonight in East Lothian, it's not very tall

Watermelon · 03-08-2011, 11:25 PM

Hi everyone, havent been back there yet, thanks for comments....

Nope Alan it isnt very tall, its a field behind my house... farmer has never really used it.. its like a wasteland but pretty. Quite a lot of the stuff though.

The little sticky leaves look kinda odd...

31-07-2011, 10:03 PM	#1
Watermelon Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,085	Are these edible? Hello everyone, These are plants round the neighbourhood which I always pass and think... next time I need to take a pic of this ask for identification!!! First photos are the photos of whole plant then the second photo are pics close up of the plant, or some there is only one. Plant 1. Plant 2 Is it groundsel? Plant 3 Plant 4 Thanks

31-07-2011, 11:47 PM	#4
Ozric Jonathan Senior Member Adult Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: West of Scotland Posts: 4,226	I agree with Alan. Can you get a pic of the leaf for the last one? I think it is a mustard but maybe not hedge mustard. The others are def not suiatble. __________________ Testudo Hermanni Hermanni (Corse) tortoises

03-08-2011, 07:56 AM	#7
Anita Sayles Senior Member Sub Adult Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Plymouth, Devon UK Posts: 1,163	I can't quite see an individual flower from your pics, but could it be Brassica rapa... http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/biow...g=en&detail=59 __________________ ... Be young, be foolish, but be happy... Life is too short to worry about unimportant things. Reach for the sky, touch your star, and then you find your dream... TheTams - 1965

03-08-2011, 07:14 PM	#8
16 shells Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hull Posts: 7,286	Snot Wild Cabbage is it, four yellow petal's. __________________ Paul.

31-07-2011, 10:23 PM	#2
alley cat Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Somerset Posts: 3,150	Hi, 1. Hydrangea 3. Somekind of Laurel? Can't feed either of those I don't think.

31-07-2011, 10:40 PM	#3
Alan1 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunny Scotland Posts: 21,512	1 hydrangea.. no 2 ragwort .. no 3 laurel type .. no 4 hedge mustard maybe? if so I think it's edible

31-07-2011, 11:50 PM	#5
Watermelon Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,085	Heya there wasnt any leaves as such, just the stick leaves as you can see on the pic 2nd to last! Ill go back and get some different pics of it when I can, thanks guys.

03-08-2011, 11:18 PM	#9
Alan1 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunny Scotland Posts: 21,512	I actually saw a field of that stuff tonight in East Lothian, it's not very tall

03-08-2011, 11:25 PM	#10
Watermelon Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,085	Hi everyone, havent been back there yet, thanks for comments.... Nope Alan it isnt very tall, its a field behind my house... farmer has never really used it.. its like a wasteland but pretty. Quite a lot of the stuff though. The little sticky leaves look kinda odd...

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