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Eating wild violets #6497226
03/21/19 05:18 PM
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Does anybody on here eat many wild violets . I like to eat a few leaves and roots while im out in the woods but never tried to collect enough for a prepared meal .

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497314
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I always wondered if the purple flowers in the Tommy James and the Shondells song were wild violets and if "dig" referred to them living on the bulbs they dug to eat.

"My dog Sam eats purple flowers.
We ain't got much, but what we've got's ours.
We dig snow and the rain and the bright sunshine.
Draggin' the line (draggin the line).
I feel fine."

I have eaten wild violet flowers, but never tried the bulbs. The main character in "My Side of the Mountain" ate a lot of them.

Keith

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497448
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The bulbs are kindof like okra

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: run] #6497472
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Originally Posted by run
Let us know if you experience gastrointestinal upset so we can learn from your experience.

That would be caused by african violets.not even the same genus as our wild violets .wild violets are definitely edible and very nutritional even medicinal.

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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497491
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Wild blue violets are edible but here in WI they are our state wild flower and thus picking them won't cause indigestion but incarceration maybe.

Bryce

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497585
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There are all sorts of wild flower that one can eat. Admittedly some only once.


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: run] #6497601
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Originally Posted by run
Let us know if you experience gastrointestinal upset so we can learn from your experience.

They are supposed to help digestive problems like dysentery and aid with kidney problems.

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497604
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I have made jelly from wild violets. It's very tasty and a beautiful color. Got the recipe from Euell Gibbons book " Stalking the Wild Asparagus ".

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497608
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I have made jelly from wild violets. It's very tasty and a beautiful color. Got the recipe from Euell Gibbons book " Stalking the Wild Asparagus ".


Have you ever ate a pine tree? Seems like that was a line from a TV cereal ad Euell was doing if I remember right?

I like asparagus. wild or cultivated either one. anybody ever had white asparagus? not white sauce the plant is white.


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497691
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I have, Danny. Tasts like the everyday aspergrass. I love it in every way shap and form, raw, cooked, pickled, whatever!


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497731
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I have eaten dozens of gallons of leaves and flowers from several species of violets, mainly V. odorata, raw or cooked over the years.

Click on the "subordinate taxa" tab for a look at the numerous species found across North America.
https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=VIOLA

English Sweet violet. Which is a NNIS (Non Native Invasive Species) in North America.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_odorata

State flower of Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_papilionacea


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497737
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All asparagus is white...
until exposed to sunlight.
They keep the stalks covered, usually with dirt, to keep them white. We can do this ourselves, even with wild asparagus. Some say white stalks are more tender, though slightly less nutritious. Age (size) is a bigger factor in my experience.
Good eatin' either way!


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6497841
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I like asparagus too

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: bblwi] #6497974
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Originally Posted by bblwi
Wild blue violets are edible but here in WI they are our state wild flower and thus picking them won't cause indigestion but incarceration maybe.

Bryce


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Have you ever looked at the list of plants can't dig or pick here in WI on state land? Whole lot easier to read the list you can take, which is really not that much big scheme of things. But I guess if every person decided to take even a few eventually wouldn't be none.
Anyone want violets I got a bunch in my yard they can have. Might be eating little Diacambia that I sprayed them with. Probably won't kill you though, didn't kill the violets.

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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6498169
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You are likely to have an upset stomach and possibly vomit if you eat a salad bowl of most spring wild edible plants. The reason is that they contain such high levels of vitamin A that your body has a bad reaction to it. One of my favorite exceptions is fresh young leaves on basswood trees. They are very pleasant flavor, and I’ve eaten handfuls with no upset stomach.


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6498483
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I'll stick to purselane as it has a lot better value than a lot of other plants and grows about everywhere from Mn to CA to TX to NY to OR.

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6498486
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lamb's quarters, are one of my favorites.


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6498493
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I make cooked greens with cow greens,lambs quarter, pig weed and stinging nettle .the cowgreens are just starting to sprout

Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6498494
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What are cowgreens ? technically ?


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Re: Eating wild violets [Re: Bigfoot] #6498590
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Cow greens are another name for cow parsnip, aka Heracleum maximum.


www.laurieconstantino.com/wild-edibles-how-to-harvest-and-cook-cow-parsnip-greens/

http://foragerchef.com/cow-parsnip/

https://preparednessadvice.com/edible_plants/cow-parsnip-a-useful-edible-plant/


Beware:

"There are two problems with this plant. One it closely resembles Poison Hemlock, Water Hemlock and Bulbiferous Hemlock and Giant Hogweed. All parts of these plants are extremely poisonous. Second, Cow parsnip juices contain a phototoxin that acts on contact with skin and is triggered by exposure to ultraviolet light."


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