Tag: edible

The Blusher / Summer / Autumn / Edible  Description  The Blusher Mushroom is a fantastic edible mushroom that have a beef-like flavour once cooked. They live within the Amanita family of mushrooms which have some deadly toxic mushrooms in, so serious caution is advised if you’re planning to pick and…

Wild Garlic / Spring / Edible Common Names Wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows’s leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, bear’s garlic Botanical Name Allium Ursinum Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Asparagales  Family – Amaryllidaceae Physical Characteristics Wild garlic is a bulbous, perennial plant, going into leaf…

Sweet Cicely / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Common Names Sweet Cicely, cicely, myrrh, garden myrrh, sweet chervil Botanical Name Myrrhis Odorata Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Apiales  Family – Apiaceae Physical Characteristics of Sweet Cicely Sweet Cicely is a perennial growing to 1m high and 1m…

Japanese Knotweed / Spring / Summer / Edible Common Names Japanese knotweed, Asian knotweed Botanical Name Fallopia japonica Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Caryophyllales  Family – Polygonaceae Physical Characteristics of Japanese Knotweed Japanese knotweed is a hardy, herbaceous, rhizomatous perennial.  Plants are fully dioecious, with all individuals of the…