Thread 214643685

Do you forage in your country? post cool forageable plants from your country

>why don't you forage for food like we do in GERMANY
not a good idea for an american city-slicker
I did get a big bag of wild chanterelles once, which were good

>>214643750
you have a lot of cool forageables and you have cars, so why not?

Not my country but this is what Italian foraging looks like.

>>214643685 (OP)
It's been a special year in the UK for foraging, we call it last year's where plants make loads and loads of nuts

It's almost prime sweet chestnut time my fave. They were introduced by the Romans, happy memories of eating them in autumn with my nan

>>214644178
I'm always scared of picking the wrong thing and dying

>>214644209
If you have sweet chestnuts that grow in your country they're super easy to identify, the only thing you could confuse it with is horse chestnut. Sweet chestnut have shells like hedgehogs, the ones you don't want to eat have much more sparse spikes (like in this pic)

>>214644266
A friend told me that you can find a forest ranger that can identify things for you when you're new, not sure those exist in germany or if they offer that service

these days I'm a filthy urbanite but as a kid in the countryside, on the top of my head we used to pick, elderberries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, black & red currant, apples, pears, peaches, chanterelles, bolete, parasol

>>214643685 (OP)
These are toxic.

>>214644631
wait strawberries just grow there? you do NOT suffer

>>214644791
Yup, seems to be "Conium maculatum"; Socrates commited suicide by eating some.

>>214644791
>>214645527
it's süßdolde, which is safe to eat

>>214645352
Not him but same story here, which is why I never buy berries from the store because they're tasteless and full of pesticides. Living in a city is hell on earth

>>214645718
I'm moving to a suburb so I might pick this up

>>214643685 (OP)
Yeah, I forage blueberries and mushrooms

>>214645352
They're special kind of forest strawberries, they're small and kinda rare

>>214644411
Nigga you dont need that for chestnuts, it's nit like shrooms which can look similar to other shrooms at different stages of development.
Picrel are edible chestnuts, the outer shell is spiky and can actually hurt you, the chestnuts have a flat side and a small tuft, they also have brighter colors, they just look better.

Also usually you never find non-edible chestnuts near edible ones.
But anyway you wont die if you pick the wrong ones, because they will be so shit tasting and sour/acid you wont be able to eat them

>>214646034
Forgot picrel

>>214645352
Forest strawberries don't grow in Germany? I don't believe that

>>214646095
They do

Iirc they crossed euro forest strawberries with american to make the modern strawberry because the american one is larger in size but less taste