what are some strange/unusual plants used for food?

Question

friuts, Veg., spices, etc. anything not typically found in your neighborhood safeway, albertsons and those chain stores...

unusual lol I live in a desert, cactus is off the unusual chart. And Pineapple you can get any where.

Answer 1

May apple fruit and ground cherry fruit. Both are poisonous until ripe. Crabapples are nasty but fabulous when turned into jelly. And then there is my favorite...the elderberry. These berries are also somewhat toxic to humans until ripe but when ripe they make the best jelly and wine. Got stung by six ground bees on this years foray into the bushes for the elderberries. There is also the fruit of the paw paw tree which tastes like banana custard. You can also eat yellow sorrel which is more often thought of as a weed. It tastes lemony. You can also poach dock weed which tastes a little like spinach. You can dig up wild onions and leeks in the spring and these are wonderful. My daughter's yard in S Carolina is full of these things and the neighbors thought she was nuts when she pulled them up and ate them. Nasturtium flowers and daylily buds are good fried.

Answer 2

mulberry, horsechest nut, walnut,fig, rubus,urtica dioca, pyrus pashia,, phagopyrum tataricum, sweet chest nut, Elegnus umbelata, wild strawberry,
Australian aborigines selected food which was available and ate it for nutritional purposes. There was no refrigeration or storage containers. Local knowledge of which plants were edible, palatable, or delicious, as well as the best time for harvest, harvest and preparation methods, were passed down by word of mouth to the next generation. Some plants or their fruits are less toxic at cetain times.
Aborigines generally did not boil water, so their cooking methods (and hence their menus) were different from those used by the early settlers and modern users. They did not have pots or pans, although northern tribes were known to have used bailer shells. They did not make tea or coffee, nor similar drinks. They did not make jams, jellies, or chutneys, and made little use of flavourings.
Apart from Bunya nuts they only used food from their tribal area and did not trade.

Answer 3

Lets see, Thistle stalks, Lilly buds, hibiscus fruit, cactus, strawberry tree fruit, elderberries, any veggie with a weird color; blue potatoes, purple carrots ext. if your looking for an herb the sugar plant is great! if you like bay leaves try the leaves of a California Myrtle.

Answer 4

Bay leaf tree, ginger root, coconut, figs, spaghetti squash, popcorn, pear tomatoes, yellow tomatoes, black peppers, hot Hungarian peppers, fresh dill, caraway seed, kohlrabi, horse radish, haselnut bushes, bamboo, crab apple, elephant garlic, huckleberries, currents and gooseberries. You can even cook up tender garlic chutes just like you would green onions for a different taste.

Answer 5

Used to make a salad with dandelion greens and made dandelion wine.

Answer 6

Cactus.


Amaranth, cowpeas, sunnhemp, jute plant, spider flower, pig weed.

Answer 7

collie flower WTH?its white broccoli

Answer 8

i would say from my personal experience:
weed
cactus
and u no
pinapple