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[jenny_haddow]

I sent 'himself' out with a spade and a perplexed look, he must have dug up half the field!

[saucisson]

Anyone care to post a photo of wild horseradish as I'm having trouble working out what's what in the "field"

Many thanks,

Dave

[Rik vonTrense]

Here it is and it grows to about three feet high very similate to a dock leaf.








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[saucisson]

Thanks Rik,
I'll keep a look out for it.

[moggy]

Here it is and it grows to about three feet high very similate to a dock leaf.








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now that looks very similar to dock, how do you tell them apart?

[Rik vonTrense]

They are greener and look like long cabbage leaves and ar very ribbed,
a dock leaf is more fragile but if in doubt just break a piece off and rub it between your fingers and you will smell horseradish quite distinctly.



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[saucisson]

They are greener and look like long cabbage leaves and ar very ribbed,
a dock leaf is more fragile but if in doubt just break a piece off and rub it between your fingers and you will smell horseradish quite distinctly.

I bought some horseradish "thongs" off ebay and planted them in a very big pot indoors in March. They immediately bolted to six feet tall with tiny leaves and have flowered already. The original leaves are dying down and new three inch leaves are growing all the way up the stem. But it doesn't look like any picture of horseradish.

Fearing a con, I just broke off a piece of leaf, rubbed it, and it smelt of mown grass, nothing more...

30 seconds later my nose was afire with: horseradish, an hour later I still have a warm buzz in my sinuses

[Rik vonTrense]

That is a cultivated strain no doubt...normally in the wild it grows like very long parsnips and are the very devil to dig out...


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[tristar]

Even worse to peel!

[roseway]

Isn't there a nasty poisonous plant which looks very similar to wild horseradish? I seem to remember it featuring in an Agatha Christie whodunnit.

Eric

[Rik vonTrense]

From Google.....

Symptoms may include: Poisoning is rare but there have been reports in Britain of poisoning in horses after gorging on the leaves and the flowering stems of the plant.

maybe cooked as greens for humans it could be poisonous............





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if you have a spare corner of the garden......

[Wohoki]

It does look a little like hyoscyamus niger (hen-bane) but the smell of hen-bane is very distinctive and quite revolting. (I collect medicinal and sacred plants, bit of an odd hobby I know, but what the hell .)

[tristar]

I collect medicinal and sacred plants, bit of an odd hobby I know, but what the hell

Does this mean that you run around showing off your sausage during the equinox or solstice Wohoki?

[Wohoki]

Hey, I show off my sausage at any time of the year.

[royt]

What an epic voyage this thread has been from Pie and Mash and Jellied Eels to "Donkeys Ears" (Horse radish). We have had encountered some stormy weather and met the local Medicine Man on our travels and above all lots of humour! This is one of the best forums on the web