Cooking without a pot: which leaves to use?

[treetop57]

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[santaman2000]

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[Elen Sentier]

Comfrey is only toxic if eaten a lot very often, other wise is it a good nutritous plant which would be perfectly good to on occasion use as a wrap to bake food. Coltsfoot is another plant you could wrap your food in.

Thanks for that, helpful.

 

[Elen Sentier]

Symphytum officinale ? Is the only one simply called 'comfrey' and it has soft leaves similar to foxgloves. Its grown as a green manure and plant food.
Russian comfrey is the prickly type.

You're right - I grow several varieties of symphytum both for herbal use and for the compost heap, I find their leaves a bit different from foxgloves generally. Russian comfrey, S. × uplandicum, is indeed more bristly and has blue/violet flowers. S. officinale and S. asperum have hybridised too so maybe it was that that I accidentally used.