In this video I am gonna take you onto a springwalk through central Europe’s nature (Switzerland). We will see the stadium of different edible, medicinal and also poisonous plants in springtime. Observing nature in all seasons, that‘s why you can expect more walks in summer, autumn and winter.
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🟢 Green = safe to consume raw (beneficial)
🔵 Blue = under certain circumstances more or less safe to consume. Caution, there is something to take into account (beneficial with exceptions)
🔴 Red = no safe consumption (toxic/poisonous)
🟣 Purple = used primary as medicinal plant, consumption in small dosage (medicinal)
All to my best knowledge, without any warranty. There might be things I don‘t see currently.
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Hazelnut / Haselnuss (Coryllus Avellana)
Blackberry / Brombeere / Mora (Rubus)
Plantain / Spitzwegerich / Plátano (Plantago Lanceolata)
Dandelion / Löwenzahn / Diente de León (Taraxacum)
Daisy /Gänseblümchen / Margarita (Bellis Perennis)
Speedwell / Ehrenpreis (Veronica Officinalis)
Stinging Nettle / Brennnessel / Ortiga (Urtica)
Wild Strawberry / Wilde Erdbeere / Fresa Silvestre (Fragaria Vesca)
Bear Leek / Bärlauch / Puerro de Oso (Allium Ursinum)
Ivy / Efeu / Hiedra (Hedera Helix)
Pine / Kiefer / Pino (Pinus)
Yew / Eibe / Tejo (Taxus Baccata)
Spruce / Fichte (Picea)
Arum / Aronstab (Arum)
Clover / Klee / Trébol (Trifolium)
Coltsfoot / Huflattich / Una de Caballo (Tussilago Farfara)
Starweed / Vogelmiere (Stellaria Media)
Parsley / Petersilie (Petroselium Crispum)
Willow / Weide / Sauce (Salix)
Horsetail / Schachtelhalm / Cola de Caballo (Equisetum)
Walnut / Walnuss / Nogal (Juglans Regia)
Garlic Mustard / Knoblauchsrauke (Alliaria Petiolata)
Yellow Archangel / Goldnessel (Lamium Galeobdolon)
Bishop’s weed / Giersch (Aegopodium podagraria)
Elder / Holunder / Saúco (Sambucus)
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Hi ings out there. I’m on my way through the nature of central Europe, namely Switzerland. And this might be um officially the first video on my channel. And I intend Yeah, I intend to do such a walk at least every season like spring, summer, autumn and winter to Yeah. to observe the change in vegetation. The focus will be definitely edible and medicinal plants, but of course on our way um we will encounter different kinds of plants. And yeah, if you’re interested in that um stay tuned, we start now. And of course in this video the plants will have to focus. So I will leave this spotlight now. And that’s it from me. Okay. And we are starting with the Corillus Avana, also known as common hazelnut. As we can see, no leaves so far. All we can see is the male flower which is here. Also, um yeah, already pretty dry and well done. it was you know during the whole winter it’s closed and then somewhere in February March it is uh opening spreading their Poland and yeah but now they’re done but I think still we can profit from them um it’s like you know like with uh stinging nettle seeds not the same cuz it’s seeds and this here is just a yeah just a flower but still I think there are some ingredients, some nutritions we can profit from. Yep, that’s the male flower. And here the small ones. I don’t know if you can see it cuz the light is not as good as I think. I will just make a little zoom. Let’s see if we can see it now. Look, that’s the female flower with those red stripes coming out about to flower, to flourish. And there are lots of butts here. Lots of female flowers which are about to sprout, but there are no leaves yet. So, but we can expect them anytime soon. Okay. And that’s it for now with the hazelnut. But let me tell you um almost to every plant we see here in this video I will make a detailed video where we will make a deep dive and speak about how to determine them um about the nutrition nutritional side the metal side also some science to those plants. It will be pretty interesting to learn about nature. And directly next to the hazelnut, we continue with the rubus, also known as blackberry, which we can see here. And now we just see the leaves of the last year. Yeah, pretty dry, old, sturdy. But there are already new ones coming here. I have to be careful with the s. But you can see it about to flower anytime soon. Yeah, with the berries we have to wait till August, September. So, there’s not more I can show you so far. Okay. And we are continuing with the buck horn also known as plantago lancola which is somewhere here. I have just seen it. There is a oh yeah there is this. It could be also the brother actually because it’s so small. I don’t know. You know, the brother of the the buckhorn the plantagulansa has a brighter wider light wider leaves. So, but anyway, they’re almost almost the same. Uh pretty well known in the medicinal plant area. You can use it for illnesses regarding the lung and all kinds of inflammation. Pretty pretty helpful. So go and benefit from it. Later in the year we’ll see it there will come a stem out which will spread the seeds also edible whole plant edible pretty good. Let’s go further. Where was it? Oh, there it is. An exemplar of the Rumx the dock. Also an edible plant high in oxalate. Of course, that’s typically for most um for most plants that the older they get, the more oxalate. Um it’s an acid which will cause kidney stones if you eat it too much. So rather be careful and take the young leaves but of course not too much um cuz the plant also wants to grow. Huh. So collecting in a sustainable way. Um I have to say this field is industrial farmed. They put a lot of fertilizer here. I mean excrements from all the cows here and the cattle and pigs. I don’t know, you know, all the excrements they put just here and that’s a lot. So that’s why I wouldn’t collect here. Don’t want to have excrements on my on my wild herbs. But anyway, yeah, in general, it’s a it’s a crazy topic how to collect wild plants here. I’ll make a different video about it. The pros and cons of yeah, of the nature in Switzerland. I mean of course it looks nice but it has like everything its disadvantages. So going further this plant here the dandelion can see the leaves here. Uh yeah the dandelion you can also put in your salad. uh pretty healthy, contains a lot of vitamin C, other things as well. We will talk about it in detail in another video. But yeah, that’s the dendelion. Now, they will later come out uh a flower, a yellowish flower um which will spread all the seeds. So, and here we can see the dendelion with a flower. this typical yellow flower here which as soon as it is fertilized becomes the yeah the white bulb. So and there we can see a spot with some clover right here. You can of course determine it uh because of the three flowers. That’s why they’re called trifolium. And yeah, when it’s really going forward into spring like April, March, uh, April, May, then you will see there will also come a flower out of it. Either it’s white or red, you can eat the whole plant. Okay, going a bit further. I found the lesser saladine. This one here, let me tell you, it’s pretty tasty among the wild herbs. It’s my favorite containing lots of vitamin C. Um, yeah, lesser salandine, also known as ficaria verna. Um I think yeah directly next to it also a well-known plant. I think you all know it. This one here not stinging. Not yet. That’s the stinging nettle. Also containing lots of vitamin C. Pretty pretty nutritious. One of the most nutritious uh wild herbs. And yeah you can eat the leaves, the plants, uh the the seeds, the root, everything. This is the yellow flower of the lesser salandi. Okay, let’s see what else do we find here. I think there was also wild strawberry here somewhere. Okay, there it is. I found it. Um, this one here with the three leaves. You know, if you look closely onto all kinds of berries, you will find they all have in common the three leaves. So, that’s a wild strawberry here. Um, all wild strawberries I found so far, I mean, the fruits or nuts, whatever you want to call it, are not really edible. Not the ones I’ve found so far, but I will keep you stated. The Veronica, um, it should be here somewhere. Oh yeah, there it is. Can see it here. That’s just the leaves. No flower currently. I will look for another ampl with flour. I found an exmlower here. They’re not open yet. They will open when it’s more dry because it’s Yeah, pretty early in the morning. I mean, not that early in the morning, but anyway. There you can see the flower and it will open up pretty pretty beautiful purplish and there you can determine it also pretty tasty. You can heat the whole plant. So, and here we got daisy balis piranas as you can see. Beautiful flower. Can’t really mistake it with something else and also pretty tasty. So, and here at another field, we got the shepherd’s purse, also known as Capsella Busapastores. Here we can see it with a white flower. Pretty well spread here. So, I think here we can see it better. Look at this exemplar and those. Hope you can see that. Yeah, those hearty leaves. It’s a shape of a heart. Yeah, the white flowers. Okay, I think that’s it with the wild herbs. Um, so far for this spot, let’s have a look at this beautiful tree here. There are not that many here in Switzerland. It’s a pine, also known as pinus penis. Um, yeah, the butts of the pine are pretty healthy. Also, uh, known for the medicine medicinal character, especially if you want to use it for coughs and illnesses regarding the lung. Pretty helpful and also pretty tasty actually. It tastes like Yeah, it tastes tastes like the the forest has to taste. Um, that’s all we can say about the pine here. Um, another interesting plant. Is this here? Have a guess. What is it? Edible or not? Three, two, one. No, it’s not edible. It’s poisonous. It’s the arum. Uh you could mistake it because of its arrowish um leaves with a duck we’ve seen earlier. But you know what? I think if you if you’re mindful as you also check the color, it doesn’t really look I I don’t know. It already has a poisonous green color. So and if you collect mindful and also if you already have collected the right plant it’s like with a with a how is it called the leak the bear leak uh and the other thing I don’t know the name in English but if you once collected the leak the bear leak you can differentiate it from the other poisonous plants but of course if you’re not mindful it could happen you know if you if you collect too fast that you also put some of the poisonous leaves with it into your back and then if you want to make a pesto or whatever salad you could poison yourself. So always be mindful while collecting your herbs. Going from the arim to this tree here, do you know what it is? There are no leaves yet, but it’s the most common tree. It’s also really um how is it called? [Music] Um the yeah the tree which is naturally habited in central Europe. Um the beach now you can determine it for example with the butts here also edible. Um yeah that’s a beach. Not that much to say. They’re the butts edible. Also in the in autumn they would have those nuts uh with which they try to spread out and uh which you could eat as well. Going further into direction of the forest, we will find this one here. I don’t mean the tree. I mean the roots going up the tree. living on a tree maybe in s symbiosa symbiosis with a tree I don’t know that’s the roots if you have if you have ever wondered what those roots are what kind of plant this is the ivy the poisonous ivy yeah I will just go bit more back and you can see it has settled down on the whole tree. All the leaves is just ivy. So I don’t think I don’t know if the trees still living but the ivy is for sure. And what you should know, you know those berries there are pretty poisonous. You shouldn’t eat them. You don’t want to eat them. Um the leaves you could use in small doses. It is used for also illnesses regarding the lung coughs and so on and so far. And you can also use them as washing um yeah washing substance. No that you they’re containing a lot of saponines which you could use to wash your clothes. Then next to this we have the spruce or pizzaya. You can eat those. You know in spring the twigs will have shoots bright bright green shoots you could eat. Um also pretty tasty. Yep. And going just a few steps further, we got what we has spoken about recently. That’s the bear leak or wild garlic, also known as alium usum wus the bear. There it is. And you can feel I didn’t I mean it’s there. It’s pretty early in the stadium, so I wouldn’t I also wouldn’t be that sure that it’s um Yeah, of course. This is This is You can just feel it. It’s just pretty soft. You see the the green on the on the front and on the back it’s like Yeah. silver green. Definitely brighter. Uh and it’s pretty soft. You know, the the other poisonous plants are Yeah. more sturdy. But anyway, I wouldn’t collect it now just to be sure uh at this stadium because you know, especially in this small stadium, so the other leaves could be pretty soft. You can just try. Yeah, that’s definitely It smells It smells like garlic. Yeah. Now going a little bit through the forest and let’s see what kind of plants we can find here. Okay. Elsa at the vegetation. There are no leaves yet. It’s beginning of March. The only plants flowering is this one. I don’t know the name of it, but I’m pretty sure it’s poisonous. We got some flowers at the ground. If you can see that. Just go closer. There’s this one here. The white flowers. Um, we have the beaches, we have one or two pines, we have the spruces. What we got here is the U tree, the Texas pakata. And all I have to say is poisonous, poisonous, poisonous in all its components apart from one. We will get to know in a different video. Um how you can determine it or yeah compared with other pine trees uh is definitely the needles they are more soft and actually at another axlar we will see there are yellow butts which will turn into fruits later on uh into red fruits. Yeah. And that is his head. Don’t do anything with it. Not cutting it because the sawdust will also is also pretty poisonous. Yep. And I think we can already uh come to today’s sponsor of this video, which is not the bird, but mother nature itself. Crazy, huh? Without mother nature, this all wouldn’t be possible, huh? So, next time you’re in nature, try to appreciate it, to enjoy it. Yeah. just crazy. So, what I almost forgot, um, this channel is naturebound. Uh, especially we will have a look at the plant world, um, medicinal and edible plants. But later on um you can expect on this channel hikes um bushcraft stuff agricultural stuff ecological agriculture and some sustainability projects. So there’s a lot of things planned. Um and I would appreciate if you um join me on my way and we could learn together. Huh. In the end, it’s all about learning, learning about life, learning about nature. And yeah, I mean, I’m at the beginning. You are also at the beginning now watching this video. And yeah, let’s just exchange thoughts, discussions, knowledge, and build something bigger. Okay. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] And coming to this spot, uh we got some more edible plants which is namely This one here for example, the Tusilago Farfara, also known as Coldsoot. It’s closing its flowers during the night, will open up anytime soon. Um, then we have the Petroelium crisp, also known as ple, which was somewhere here. Um, where was it? I think it was this one. Yep, pretty sure. This one here, the parlay. We all know it as a spice. Then there was some more. The starwheed the stellaria. It was uh is it this one? Yeah, it’s this one here next to the stinging nettle. We got the stellaria here with those juicy branches and leaves, white flowers later on. Also pretty edible, pretty good for a salad. Crazy, huh? Nature’s variety. Look what I found exciting. It’s this one. Do they seem familiar to you? It’s branches from a sals from a willow. And as you can see, all the butts here are about to flower. And you know the crazy thing about it is that I found those branches here cut down in November, December last year and it’s March. So they’re still alive. The power of the selex is just incredible and it would be a waste if we couldn’t profit from it unfortunately. I mean we can profit from it as a medicine plant if you have headache and so on. Um, but that’s all. We can’t eat a lot of it. Just small doses. But after eating that, we will feel better. That’s for sure. And it’s also a pretty nice tree which you can um cultivate pretty easily because you can make those shoots um those sticks which you put into into the ground like here. I found that someone did it already. to cultivate the willow in all those trees. Uh those those branches here and then, you know, when they’re bigger, you can plant them somewhere else. And yeah, pretty powerful. And probably they will contain uh they will develop a tree out of those trunks. [Music] [Music] [Music] Crazy field of stones, huh? I actually haven’t seen this river uh extend to the fullest, especially in summer. It’s getting pretty dry, so way smaller. Maybe now it’s like 3 4 m wide. But in summer it will be maybe just a meter if there’s water at all. But yeah, in winter it was pretty pretty big like yeah pretty big pretty big but not still not the whole bed was filled with river. So now we come to another tree which is you know we know the neighbor plant already you know that’s a hazelnut and this one here is the willow we have just seen the branches off you know with those butts this hairy butts and those two plants are actually pretty important because they are flowering pretty soon in the year. So in February and March. So in February the hazelnut in March the the willow and that’s why they’re pretty important for the world of insects. They’re getting their Poland the nectar from it some energy and as I said we can profit benefit from this tree uh when pleading uh when eating the bark or maybe even those butts here. But of course, don’t collect too many of them because they are necessary for the insects. And I will show you another exemplar which is flowering much more. This could be a male plant. We will also see a female plant on our way. So, and as I said, that’s the more flourishing one. As we can see those yellow those yellow butts here with those small hairs there it is. So that means if you see trees flourishing in February or March it will either be this one the willow you can see that good now because of the bright light or the hazelnut there. I can see it. That’s a female one. And maybe you see it already. Those butts are way longer, you know, like maybe twice or or yeah, threefold like the male. So, look what I found here. This looks like a horse tail, an acquisetum. At least from the forum. I don’t know what it becomes. It looks pretty Yeah, it looks pretty much like a horse tail. This could be edible, but there is um it has a a poisonous brother, so it’s I will show you later how to determine it. But if you find the right one, it’s pretty healthy. Here we got another bush, which smell is pretty intense. I don’t know if it’s edible or whatever you can do with it. There’s one here. See it? It’s already flourishing. So, also you can see a bee there. Stay there. Where is it? Yep. So, it seems at least it’s good for the insects, but I don’t know if we can profit from this as well. Cornell cherry. And here we come to our last tree on our walk, which is I mean it’s hard to determine from the bottom of the bge of the bark of the bark, I’m sorry. Um but if you go further up and also young trees have a really smooth bark. This is the Yuglaus Rea also known as walnut. There’s not much going on. has a little butts, a few butts on its branches, but nothing happening so far. Okay, that’s it for today’s video. I hope you had some fun and you learned a little bit about yeah, central Europe’s vegetation. I’m out for today. I hope you will join me on our future walks and yeah, give me a like, subscribe like you want. Bye-bye. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]
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what's your favourite wild herb?