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Most people never eat this tree. You probably know it as redbud. I call it pink popcorn. It blooms in early spring before most trees leaf out, which makes it one of the easiest wild edible trees to learn. Once you recognize that bright pink pattern, you will start seeing it everywhere.
This is a great reminder not to learn 100 plants at once. Learn one or two at a time, retain them, and make that knowledge useful in the field.
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44 Comments
Is this tree in minnesota?
Careful now butterfly are shizz eaters cross contamination is a great possibility 😢
Back in middle school at a spring camping competition back in WV, we were taught these were ok to eat!
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My wife and daughter literally made jelly with them yesterday! 🤣
Beautiful, sure sign of Spring.
Don’t tell megan markel
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Thanks Mr Craig!
I’m glad you’re outside playing.. be home before it gets ‘too’ dark . Bay of Quinte here.
Good info sir !
I love red bud jelly! I just collected some flowers for tea. I like to use cleavers infused water, bring to light boil then add dried purple nettle and henbit,and then fresh red bud flowers crushed lightly with a rolling pin. It's very good with honey or agave syrup.
Thank You for this!
Please tell us about the Serviceberry.
I don't care how good it tastes I would have to be starving to eat anything in the Jersey woods
Erm, do you have a scientific peer reviewed study showing this is safe??
If it tastes like peas you have a legume tree!
You can also make redbud jelly from the blooms. Very good
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Wow
That's great! Thanks Craig!
It took some effort to discover it, but when I finally found the nutritional content of seedpods, leaves and blooms of the Red Bud Tree, I was happily surprized. Thank you, Craig for sparking our interest. Good source of protein, omega fatty acids, Vitamin C and antioxidants! Awesome.
Cool to know.
Redbud has that vivid liac- purple-red color against a dark bark that pops in the spring..You can collect the buds, about six cups, sort and boil them for a jelly base. It's lovely! I find it is similar to violet jelly.
I like red bud blossoms, but I love red Bee Balm flowers better!
I'm 62 and thanks to my grandmother I've been eating red bud all my life. Great in a salad
Does it have pods that drop in Fall?
I'm always cheered at the sight of redbud trees blooming; even better that now I know that the flowers are edible! Hey have you ever tried huckleberries? Refreshing on a hike! Thanks!
Can you only eat Canadian red buds or also the Asian redbuds brought to America? Thanks.
You are so amazing
Takes a lot of time to pick enough to make a meal.
Ur right,.. learn 2 or 3 at one time. Just like mum always said, "everything in moderation". I may try the "pink popcorn" once but I'd rather leave it for the birds, butterflies & bees 🐝 it's their food😊
NOW you tell me. The flowers have just left! Ohh, how I love these trees & would love to try eating the flowers! Pink popcorn, great description! Thanks.
Also known in some circles as spicewood. Twigs can be used can be used to help flavor venison and other wild meat
Make jelli from them. Yum!
I ain't that far south, but good to know
Makes a lovely jelly, too.
I love seeing these trees in bloom! I did not know you could eat them…wow!
Right now pollinators need those buds more than humans do. Unless it's an emergency, please leave them for the pollinators who need them to survive.
You can make jelly
How can you grow this tree as a start?
I live in Denmark 🇩🇰 and in the springtime we have now I love the small lilac flowers of violets – they grow in grass & under hedges – I love their taste almost like perfume stull mild though – they are the best about early spring to me❤
Got 4 of them growing right in front of my house and use the blooms in all sorts of ways
Your content is so informative and entertaining. I enjoy it and learn something every time
You don't zoom in Enough so we can see what they look like then later on you keep moving the camera along the branch but Not Close Enough to see them! So l don't know what they are at all.