On a break in my journey from Trondheim to Hvaler I had a few hours edible-spotting in the Oslo Botanical Garden (full of – not allowed to pick – food at this time of year) ;)
NB! Not all plants shown here are edible!
I’ll add captions later!
Cirsium spinosissimum is recorded in the Italian Alps to be used like artichoke (as a snack)
Taraxacum bessarabicum is from SE Europe
Hop shoots
Fine leaved young leaves of horseradish
Cochlearia, scurvy grass
Hylotelephium ruprechtii has mild tasting leaves
Allium victorialis #1
Allium fistulosum
Allium flavum
Allium lusitanicum
Ruscus aculeatus – will be interesting to see if this has actually survived the winter
Hosta sieboldiana
Tradescantia ohiensis (one of the 80 in my book)
Angelica atropurpurea
Viola canadensis
Magnolia kobus (the buds are delicious)
Prinsepia sinensis, an unusual fruit that apparently only ripens in a long hot summer in the UK…I’ve not manage to overwinter it…
Tulipa urumiensis
Tulipa kaufmanniana (Waterlily tulip)
Heracleum mantegazzianum
Heracleum mantegazzianum
Camassia leichtlinii ssp suksdorfii
There’s a good collection of Trillium in the woodland garden, here Trillium kurabayashii
Opuntia compressa
Allium siskiyouense?
Asarum canadense, wild ginger
Trillium
Trillium albidum
Trillium chloropetalum
Trillium chloropetalum
Trillium nivale
A nice group of Allium tricoccum
Streptopus roseus var perspectus
Erythronium albidum
Ostrich fern
Allium victorialis #2
Allium victorialis #2
Allium victorialis #3
Allium victorialis #3
Allium victorialis #2
Rheum alexandrae
Allium schoenoprasum subsp sibiricum
Mini rhubarb, Rheum pumilum
Primula denticulata “Alba”
Primula denticulata “Alba”
Erythronium
A nice broad leaved Allium nutans
Allium victorialis #4
Allium victorialis #4
Allium jesdianum
Allium humile with flower bud
Tulipa kaufmanniana
Campanula collina
Aruncus dioicus shoots are used in Japan
Caltha palustris “Flore Pleno”
Crepis aurea
Bog myrtle (pors)
Bog myrtle (pors)
Not Allium carolinianum
Allium victorialis #5
Primula marginata
Oxyria digyna
Rumex acetosa var serpentinicola
Cardamine bellidifolia
Not edible but Mogop, Pulsatilla vernalis, is one of the beauties of the Norwegian mountains
Smilacina racemosa
Taxus baccata “Repandens”
Reynoutria japonica, Japanese knotweed
Allim fistulosum from the turf roofs of Gudbransdalen
Allim fistulosum from the turf roofs of Gudbransdalen
Ligularia x hessei “Gregynog Gold” has mild tasting leaves (Ligularia dentata x wilsoniana)
Ramsons (Allium ursinum)
Not edible Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Vossakvann (Angelica archangelica)
Arctium lappa (greater burdock)
Tøyen has a small collection of the old Norwegian onions I’ve collected
A few pictures from a short lunch time visit to the Oslo Botanical Garden at Tøyen this week with my little girl!
Eryngium maritimum (Sea holly) is an endangered species in Norway, so not encouraged to eat it. The next picture shows what Cornucopia II says of its use in the kitchen (I’ve never managed to grow it, so haven’t tried)
Eryngium maritimum (Sea holly) in Cornucopia II
Allium thunbergii is one of the latest onions to flower…it looked like there were two different forms here..
Allium thunbergii
Pinus wallichiana, Indian blue pine (tårefuru /tear pine). The seeds are sometimes eaten as pine nuts..
Photographing the tears of Pinus wallichiana…..Conucopia II: the tree exudes an edible manna from the leaves and twigs!
The tears of Pinus wallichiana…..Conucopia II: the tree exudes an edible manna from the leaves and twigs!
Pinus wallichiana
The Viking garden
An ex-Elm
Hazel with Turkish Hazel!
Turkish Hazel…all I’ve opened have been empty
Campanula rapunculoides, from the garden’s Korsmo weed chart exhibition!
Probably the oldest Gingko tree in Northern Europe, soon to reach 150!
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
