Is this Pignuts?

[Scipio]

Hi folks,

I went to my local wood today looking for Pignuts. I picked what may be Pignut leaves and flowers and photographed them hoping that someone can ID them? I think that I may be wrong and that this is just a weed. There is tons of it growing beside the pathways. Any help would be great.

By scipio76 at 2011-05-08

By scipio76 at 2011-05-08

 

[HHazeldean]

I'm not 100 % but I think that it isn't.

 

[Scipio]

It looks like it according to this site but, like you, I`m not sure.

http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wfs/pignut.htm

 

[nigel heffernan]

I was out collecting pignuts yeaterday and they are not pignuts , it looks like sweet cicely you have there.

 

[_mark_]

no it isn't

 

[British Red]

Definitely not pignut - the leaves are all wrong

This is pignut


1 pignut by British Red, on Flickr

Please remember as well that collecting pignuts is illegal without the express permission of the landowner

Red

 

[Scipio]

Thanks to you all. I didn`t think they were pignuts but it`s good to get confirmation.

Cheers.

 

[Paul72]

Pignut can be confused with Cow Parsley which is poisonous so be careful!

 

[beamdune]

Cow Parsley isn't poisonous but can be confused with Hemlock.

 

[British Red]

...and Hemlock doesn't look remotely like Pignuts

 

[nigel heffernan]

Ideally you should invest in a good guide book food for free by richard mabey is an excellent guide

 

[dwardo]

Wonder what the umbel is though? It doesnt look like cow parsley..

 

[British Red]

I agree with sweey cicely tentatively

 

[mountainm]

Does it smell of aniseed when bruised?

 

[rowen]

Definitely not, leaves wrong pignut =

http://friendsofchorltonmeadows.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

 

[Pignut]

That is definatly no relative of mine

(Leaves are a dead givaway not a pignut I am afraid)

 

[raspberryjam]

The pignuts here have only just come into flower, when is the best time to dig them up?

 

[nigel heffernan]

Now is the time to dig them up, it takes patience doing it the stem can very easily break off before you reach the nut so dig carefully

 

[FerlasDave]

Found some of these at a local woodland yesterday. First time spotting them on my own!