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Update from today...

Sow thistle (smooth leaved)-Sonchus oleraceus
If you have been following the thread from the start, you should be able to see 4 more edibles in the picture :)
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Treacle mustard-Erysimum cheiranthoides.
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Nope... Just freehand. The lens is IS (canon)

Most of its automatic/macro at the mo. Camera club like many things has fell on the back-burner due to work and this :p
 
great thread mate, keep up the good work!

My garden has an abundance of the chive like wild onion! there is shizzle loads of it! when I cut the grass the air pongs of garlicy chive!

I assumed it was just standard chive, but it does taste alright.
 
Update from today...

Sow thistle (smooth leaved)-Sonchus oleraceus
If you have been following the thread from the start, you should be able to see 4 more edibles in the picture :)
MeCLk.jpg


Treacle mustard-Erysimum cheiranthoides.
HDJUO.jpg

come on then, whats the answer???? is it yarrow dandilion clover and plantain...:)
 
Good spot F, although rye grass is not one of the five :)

So we have plantain, dandilion, sow thistle, fennel....

A clue for the last edible then. It can be seen in both pictures, and is pretty much in the same place, but one picture shows its very distict identifying feature!
 
I was going to have a guess at wild pea, since there is a definite vetch-type thing in the first shot, but now I'm going to say Ground ivy, based on the purple spot in the second pic. Except I can't see that in the first pic.

There's also something with yellow flowers in the first pic, and it doesn't look like dandelion to me. Maybe Nipplewort, Hieracium spp., which is edible but not especially worthwhile...

Struggling slightly here. Is that nettle in the second pic, or dead nettle?

Incidentally, on a dead stem in the bottom right of picture one, you can see a pink, unstriped colour form of the black-lipped banded snail, Cepaea nemoralis (well it might be the white-lipped banded snail C. hortensis, but that is less common), which is perfectly edible, but a bit too small to be worth the effort unless you can gather loads of them. Mind you, they're bigger than a winkle...
 
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What's the Latin for Wild Pea, please? (see, I'm being nice). My plants book doesn't list it under the name 'wild pea'. In fact neither of them do.

(Yeah, I'm checking up on you now :lmao:)

And what was the yellow flower then?
 

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