Author Topic: Why oxalis is awesome.  (Read 683 times)

Okay, so we had a ride to a spring for clean water (we don't have a filter), and there was oxalis. A good amount of patches, with a lot of triplumes in each patch.

I tried tasting them, they were a bit sour. But somewhat tasty.

So i took quite a lot of them, and ate them while we were riding to the supermarket.


Their taste is hard to describe. Sour, but not too sour. Like a spring morning when you're going outside in a village, or lying in grass. Like a spring morning, when you inhale the sweet, easy-on-the-nose aroma from the flowers everywhere.

Somewhat like Menen's milkshake, but a bit different.

You can eat the plumes first, leaf by leaf, then gobble up the green/wine-red stalk. Or chomp the 'plume in one bite, then eat the stalk. Or do it the easy way: swallow the oxalis whole.

Oh and incase you're wondering, here's a google-image'd photo.



Shouldnt be eating stuff off the ground. You might die... Actually. Keep at it. c:

I eat these all the time

so loving good

It's be pretty cool if you mistook Poison Ivy for Oxalis and died after you ate it.

That doesn't really look like poison ivy..

Still I wouldn't be eating anything unless I was 100% sure that it was safe.

I hate how we've been taught to think that everything in the wild is extremely poisonous, and all that is safe to eat is that which is grown by humans.

There are things in the wild that are safe to eat. Apparently, oxalis is one of those things.

It's be pretty cool if you mistook Poison Ivy for Oxalis and died after you ate it.
Oxalis doesn't look like Poison Ivy at all.

I hate how we've been taught to think that everything in the wild is extremely poisonous, and all that is safe to eat is that which is grown by humans.

There are things in the wild that are safe to eat. Apparently, oxalis is one of those things.
True.


Well, You never know. It could actually be poisonous. Make sure you know what it is first.

from wikiped

"Wood sorrel is an edible wild plant that has been consumed by humans around the world for millennia."