• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Anne Miller
  • Nancy Reading
  • John F Dean
  • r ransom
  • paul wheaton
  • Timothy Norton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Pearl Sutton
  • AndrĂ©s Bernal
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • M Ljin
  • Thekla McDaniels
  • May Lotito

Olysnium Douglasii

  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Is this flower poison or used as medicinal?

Thank you
20240410_113324.jpg
Olysnium Douglasii edible
 
master steward
Posts: 19920
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4994
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Are you sure that is Olysnium Douglasii?  Maybe a closer picture would help.

You picture looked like this to me:

Tuberous Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) is a pretty orchid.

As far as I know it is not edible or medicinal.

Wikipedia says it might be an endangered species depending on where you live:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calopogon_tuberosus

 
Rusticator
Posts: 10171
Location: Missouri Ozarks
5702
7
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Zooming in, it looks like a tulip, to me. If so, it's toxic: https://plantura.garden/uk/flowers-perennials/tulips/are-tulips-poisonous
 
pollinator
Posts: 170
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
73
2
homeschooling kids homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Today I learned that I now need to positively identify what I had always called Grass Pink, because what I have in the fields definitely isn't this.
 
Wildness Chick Thornton
Posts: 2
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Anne Miller wrote:Are you sure that is Olysnium Douglasii?  Maybe a closer picture would help.

You picture looked like this to me:

Tuberous Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) is a pretty orchid.

As far as I know it is not edible or medicinal.

Wikipedia says it might be an endangered species depending on where you live:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calopogon_tuberosus

20240412_162542.jpg
Olysnium Douglasii pink flowers
 
Carla Burke
Rusticator
Posts: 10171
Location: Missouri Ozarks
5702
7
personal care gear foraging hunting rabbit chicken cooking food preservation fiber arts medical herbs homestead
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
We'll, it no longer looks like tulips, so... moving on... According to this site, they're medicinal. I've no personal experience with them.
 
nothing beats office politics like productivity. Or maybe a tiny ad:
Switching from electric heat to a rocket mass heater reduces your carbon footprint as much as parking 7 cars
http://woodheat.net
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic