Diese Pflanze wächst zufällig neben meinem Wohnhaus. Meine Frau sagt, wir können es essen. Ich möchte nur eine Bestätigung, bevor wir es in unseren Frühlingsrollen verwenden.
Von: Asian-In-His-Armor
Diese Pflanze wächst zufällig neben meinem Wohnhaus. Meine Frau sagt, wir können es essen. Ich möchte nur eine Bestätigung, bevor wir es in unseren Frühlingsrollen verwenden.
Von: Asian-In-His-Armor
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Sounds like you’re eating it already.
It’s Shiso. Also called perilla.
Is it growing right next to a rodent bait station?
There is more that goes into something being safe to eat than identification.
After all, you can eat anything once!
Is the ground it is in contaminated?
Has anything been sprayed on it, including urine?
Does anything nearby, like a house, lose lead paint chips or shingles debris onto it?
My general rule us to only eat that which I have planted, cared for, and grown in soil I had tested, or is from a store.
Show your wife the rat trap behind it and ask again.
It looks like Purple Shiso. That said it also looks a little on the older side so the leaves might be a little tough. I usually pick my leaves earlier. Once they start to go from purple to green you tend to find they aren’t as good to eat fresh. That is when I used them to make simple syrup, dehydrate them, or use in pickles.
That said, as others said, you don’t know what could have been sprayed or put in the soil around the plant. You can’s always wash off things so if you didn’t grow it yourself I am not sure I would trust it. When I forage, for example, I only eat the plants that are found in areas that aren’t high foot traffic, car exhaust, or possible areas where spraying could have been done.
So technically it’s safe but I think its icky.
I’d be really cautious about eating it since it grew near a rat trap. That said, green shiso is really good with sashimi. Not sure what would be the best use for red shiso
I think it is a begonia. Maybe an Angel Wing. Take it from here.
Red shiso. It isn’t usually eaten as a fresh herb, but used to add flavor and red color to pickles, or dried and ground with salt to season rice. For fresh eating, you want a green variety of perilla.
Shiso.
Are you crazy ? Even if is is edible it won’t taste good . And it could very well have been sprayed with god knows what !!
Btw some shiso is tastier than others. I grew the purple and it ok but the green perilla aoshiso was much better. John Scheepers kitchen garden seeds is a reliable source. Both look nice threaded in amongst perennials.
If you’re worried about contaminants in soil (very region dependent and a concern if you don’t know how the property owner does treatments), I recommend letting those seeds develop and dry and then growing those in containers with potting soil. Fun gardening project and shiso grows easily!
Probably.
The real question though is will you be poisoned after eating it. 😉
Yes. Shiso.
To people worried about the rat trap. The poison is used in rat traps do persist through absorption by the plant.
You’re far more likely to get lead contaminants from plants growing in soil near houses built before the 1970s. Lead paint chipped off into the soil can concentrate around the foundations of the home.
shisa / shiso
it’s a breakfast plant from japan, it grows in zones 10 or 11 in the US
Only one way to find out
Looks like Shiso. Unsure whether or not that’s what it is. If it is though, it’s edible and mildly delicious.
Red shiso with rat bait terroir