I found this growing in the yard beside one of my roses. I used an AI app to to id it, and it said it was Atropa Belladonna, which is one of the most deadly plants in the world. I let it grow just to study it so I would be familiar with it. It took several articles and videos to find that it's actually edible. They also say that the young leaves can be cooked like poke and eaten. I plan to try it next Spring
I was always weary of this plant because I thought it can't be eaten due to toxicity and the birds have been spreading them all around our place. Now i'll get to taste the nice ripe berries i've always been curious about!! Thanks Green Dean for the very informative video!!!
Agreed! A most excellent and accurate summation. I suppose now is a good time to thank you for your work, since I am posting anyway. I use your videos quite a lot for home-educating my daughter. She says you're a much better instructor than I am. I told her it's only because she doesn't live with you and you never discipline her ... :) Much respect and appreciation for your dedication, information and entertaining delivery!
I found something similar 2 years ago growing out from under our house, looks like this but the stems are fuzzy I live on the central coast of California in zone 9 they just started popping up again a month ago, I don’t know what mine are but I’ve been looking all over the Internet , I’ve also heard that if you pinch the berries and they give you purple juice then that is a huckleberry but that’s just from a video I watched. I know it’s a nightshade I just wish I knew what it was excited for the berries to ripen so I can try them I also put a tomato cage around them so that they can stay off of our walkway, thank you for your video I wish I could’ve seen the leaves better 🌱
I am SO GLAD to see such detailed identification points! I have studied in this field since early childhood and know a bit over 140 wild edible and medicinal plants by memory, and am mortified by frequent posts on Facebook and the like, with a blurry picture from a distance, asking "Is this edible?"...and the number of people who will, without seeking any real information, say "Oh, yes! That's...(insert random plant name)... It's delicious!
Two reasons. 1) As someone involved in wild edibles professionally full time the amount of bad information Wikipahetica has on wild edibles is very depressing, frightening and pathetic. Any idiot can post anything including wives tales, family nonsense, and the failing memory of grandma. 2) One article referenced me twice and got me 180 degrees wrong both times. If you want to trust your life to that sewer of misinformation that is your business. I don't and won't.
I have a yellow version of nightshade growing wild in my backyard called Solanum diphyllum , or commonly known as two leaf nightshade. So i just found the name out after researching it . Apparently there is alot of miss information on it as well sinse it is in the nightshade family. My cousin was exploring the back yard forest and mistakenly believed this plant was a gooseberry bush , (do to very similar looking fruits ) , and he ate a handfull of them stating they were the most delicious goose berry he has ever had . IT peaked my interest and i ate them as well , very sweet delicious candy like berry. A year went by and i would periodically eat them when i saw them ripe and yellow. I liked the berry so much thinking it was some type of goose berry i even dug one up and planted it in a pot to have for myself.. Then the terror happened. I was studying plants and getting to know more and more about them one day do to me expanding my personal garden , Then it dawned on me , these weren't goose berries , not even close , they didn't have the shell around them i stupidly forgotten they always have. They where listed as an invasive highly toxic poisonous plant in the nightshade family , i was confused , i know about some of the black ones and reds kinds are toxic to humans and can kill if your not careful on what kind you have. So ive been eating supposedly toxic berries for a year now with my cousin and no ill effect. I would like to get to the bottom of this and shed some light on this misconception on this pretty plant. My grandfather is full blooded apache indian and claims to me that our blood line are indigenous enough to handle certain toxic plants but i cant conclude on that theory safely. But it did give me some resolution on why i never felt ill eating a toxic plant . if it is so called "toxic" deadly" . perhaps its just like your video here with just a different color berry and misconceptions.
A moth larva has taken a liking to my ground cherries to a degree. So these have taken some of the slack . These have naturalized to my yard and I now have 3 quart bags of them frozen. I like to make a "pizza" from acorn crust with them with garlic mustard pesto(black walnut) and milk weed pre silk. Since everything tastes bad with out bacon I.. They naturally make more of a sweet sauce. I have also made some nice pies from them. Still not dead so I have to keep trying with more berries.
As a young child in South Korea, my friends and I would pick and eat the black berries as we find them, when we are out playing. I never knew that it was poisonous until I started studying about wild weeds here in America. Love your new hat. Thanks for all your videos and can't wait for your next book.
I just found this in my garden. I had planted seeds of what were supposed to be ground cherry, but obviously were not, as the flowers and fruits are much different. Always curious about the nightshades, I did a search and found your video. Thanks much.
Does anyone know what happens if you ingest a raw green berry? I’ve read a certain amount (not found quantity) of the leaves & berries eaten raw cause hallucinations & other mental adverse affects. means, in certain forms can be fatal. If this is so, I think it is important for the information of harvesting, preparation & consumption be found & added in detail when educating
I had some of those berries last summer and they were like sweet little tomatoes. I am not really so concerned about night shades so much because i don't think a single berry of even Belladonna could kill you. No reason to be stupid about it but mushrooms, yews and hemlocks scares me more.
awesome channel, it would be nice to know what areas the plant is found in.. and it would be wicked if you traveled to some different regions and did some forging videos there.
How about the foliage of horse nettle, Solanum carolinense? I understand that the berries are toxic, but one my favorite field books (ISBN 1570034389) claims that leaves are a good potherb. Noticed while I was typing that EPDPV commented on this ruderal plant as well. Any thoughts?
I suppose eating the berries from the American Nightshade is comparable to eating the Puffer fish (Fugu) in Japan.(?) (although I knew nothing of either, until now.) I imagine the premise behind eating either/both is knowing that you're playing with potential fire, but with the proper knowledge, you control the 'fire'.(?) Thanks again for another educational and entertaining video!
Don't get confused! The berries of the American Nightshade turn shiny black when edible, but the wild cucumber is edible when green but dangerous when black!
Actually he said its a laxative ... hence it medicinal use. Laxatives are edible, but you only want to use them in a constipation type situation if at all.
Wow! According to the internet, in Spanish and an indigenous language they are called Yerba mora and chichiquelite respectively. The first means black berry herb if I remember and the second means booby herb. While the fruit is kikass, the leaves make one of my favorite potherbs after two boils to remove the toxins. There is a really good video of a farmer in Oaxaca who "grows" it in a large patch by his corn, and I sure love it myself, wondering why it is our supermarkets want to sell us so much spinach and kale.
Thanks a TON for this video. I found my specimen on my garden two years ago and never knew if it was or was not edible. I've been planting the seed ever since because I just love when its covered in black. I think I have the S. nigrum which you say is not that common (I'm from Argentina, by the way). Again, thank you for this video. I must definitely do some jam with it! Do you happen to know any recipe?
@phantomcreamer c in wikipedia under solanum nigrum culinary uses.i posted a recipe for tender drumstick leaves Thumbli and flower chutney.u can use this as a prototype for any edible green leaves.this recipe from malnad of karnataka.just fiddle around this formula to fine tune to your taste.make sure to only eat culinary greens and only in season.when in doubt ask your doctor.
I just discovered this growing from were I once had lettuce. It took over. To satisfy my curiosity I ate one....yup...still breathing. I thought it was elderberry until I looked it up. Do you ever do demonstrations other than videos?
Great video I run a community garden here in California and we have it her the berries taste great. :-) I also tell groups of people when they come and take a tour of the garden that it is deadly nightshade and I eat them to see the look on their faces. Keep up the great work
Thanks for the info. I have one of these growing near my ground cherries, but I haven't tried it because I was confused because about half of its flowers are purple and half are white. Every picture I've found only shows white flowers. Now I know having some purple flowers is normal. I'll have to try eating some now.
It went in my stomach and I digested it. It wasn't deadly nightshade, it was a variety of black nightshade. Deadly nightshade looks different and I wouldn't eat that.
Single flowers and berry vs multiple bunch of flowers and berries is the difference...single black berry from a purple bell flower is belladonna...white and yellow flowers in multiples is black nightshade.
Ah I love this kind of stuff!!! I appreciate all the info and detailed knowledge you’re sharing!! I’m subscribing cause you’re clearly curious like me😁👍🏻
I made a video of some nightshades and other plants growing up in my yard where a recent tornado took out a bunch of trees. I'm trying to find out what I can and cannot eat. Any advice? I posted it as a response to this video, hopefully you can find it that way.
What about silverleaf nightshade? The yellow berries with brown seed center. I only find "toxic to humans" but no further detail. How toxic? 1 berry? Can't find any information.
I don't know exactly which nightshade it is but my family has been eating this plant forever as far as I can remember... It's quite bitter.. we eat the leaves more than for the berries
@@lauraberry226 yes, we fry them..kind of like stir fry, with or without meat. Add some salt and minced garlic. The older generation also like to boil them plain and they would eat and drink it like a soup, but plain or no salt.
The potato, also a relative of the nightshade family, I have heard some say the fruit is not edible only the tuber. Is that true? Can you eat the fruit of the potato?
I was under the impression that the deadly nightshade had red or scarlet berries, and both it and belladonna were fine in very small amounts, as it just mimics benadryl in small quantities.
Atropa Belladonna is the one I've always heard referred to as deadly nightshade.. boy the experts really did mess up the nomenclature. I recently found this American Black Nightshade spontaneously growing on my balcony.. I think it must have been the hummingbirds that brought them because I've never seen any in my immediate neighborhood.
these look same as what I have in my yard I chewed one ripe* tasted sweetish but I also had a tingly poison vibe from the berry so I immediately spit it out and rinsed my mouth none of the stems are dried but normally dark green like the rest of the plant
You mention that you've never eaten a lot of them in one sitting. Is this merely because you just haven't got around to it, they're so small, it's difficult to collect a lot of them, or because a lot of them might give you a tummy ache? I have a lot in my yard right now, and I've eaten a lot of them, but like you, not a lot in one sitting. I really like the flavor, and I think they'd make a fantastic salsa.
In my country Guatemala we eat this as a vegetable all the time. Its sold in the flea markets all over the country. Nothing dangerous about it. Natives the (Mayans) use it as a digestion aid, fever and inflammation. It has many more uses then i can think of. I live in Canada and found it growing in my garden I've being eating it for several years now.
i was on a scout trip in the keys on big munson island. they called them trip and die berries, cause they said you would trip real hard... and then die if you ate them
I treasure people like you. Thanks for your time and effort to teach us good things like this. Much love from Minnesota!
I found this growing in the yard beside one of my roses. I used an AI app to to id it, and it said it was Atropa Belladonna, which is one of the most deadly plants in the world. I let it grow just to study it so I would be familiar with it. It took several articles and videos to find that it's actually edible. They also say that the young leaves can be cooked like poke and eaten. I plan to try it next Spring
I was always weary of this plant because I thought it can't be eaten due to toxicity and the birds have been spreading them all around our place. Now i'll get to taste the nice ripe berries i've always been curious about!! Thanks Green Dean for the very informative video!!!
Agreed! A most excellent and accurate summation.
I suppose now is a good time to thank you for your work, since I am posting anyway. I use your videos quite a lot for home-educating my daughter. She says you're a much better instructor than I am. I told her it's only because she doesn't live with you and you never discipline her ... :)
Much respect and appreciation for your dedication, information and entertaining delivery!
I found something similar 2 years ago growing out from under our house, looks like this but the stems are fuzzy I live on the central coast of California in zone 9 they just started popping up again a month ago, I don’t know what mine are but I’ve been looking all over the Internet , I’ve also heard that if you pinch the berries and they give you purple juice then that is a huckleberry but that’s just from a video I watched. I know it’s a nightshade I just wish I knew what it was excited for the berries to ripen so I can try them I also put a tomato cage around them so that they can stay off of our walkway, thank you for your video I wish I could’ve seen the leaves better 🌱
I am SO GLAD to see such detailed identification points! I have studied in this field since early childhood and know a bit over 140 wild edible and medicinal plants by memory, and am mortified by frequent posts on Facebook and the like, with a blurry picture from a distance, asking "Is this edible?"...and the number of people who will, without seeking any real information, say "Oh, yes! That's...(insert random plant name)... It's delicious!
Two reasons. 1) As someone involved in wild edibles professionally full time the amount of bad information Wikipahetica has on wild edibles is very depressing, frightening and pathetic. Any idiot can post anything including wives tales, family nonsense, and the failing memory of grandma. 2) One article referenced me twice and got me 180 degrees wrong both times. If you want to trust your life to that sewer of misinformation that is your business. I don't and won't.
Oh. In Hawaii these are called Polo polo. Neat. Very delicious, though they don't keep well.
I have a yellow version of nightshade growing wild in my backyard called Solanum diphyllum , or commonly known as two leaf nightshade. So i just found the name out after researching it . Apparently there is alot of miss information on it as well sinse it is in the nightshade family. My cousin was exploring the back yard forest and mistakenly believed this plant was a gooseberry bush , (do to very similar looking fruits ) , and he ate a handfull of them stating they were the most delicious goose berry he has ever had . IT peaked my interest and i ate them as well , very sweet delicious candy like berry. A year went by and i would periodically eat them when i saw them ripe and yellow. I liked the berry so much thinking it was some type of goose berry i even dug one up and planted it in a pot to have for myself.. Then the terror happened. I was studying plants and getting to know more and more about them one day do to me expanding my personal garden , Then it dawned on me , these weren't goose berries , not even close , they didn't have the shell around them i stupidly forgotten they always have. They where listed as an invasive highly toxic poisonous plant in the nightshade family , i was confused , i know about some of the black ones and reds kinds are toxic to humans and can kill if your not careful on what kind you have. So ive been eating supposedly toxic berries for a year now with my cousin and no ill effect. I would like to get to the bottom of this and shed some light on this misconception on this pretty plant. My grandfather is full blooded apache indian and claims to me that our blood line are indigenous enough to handle certain toxic plants but i cant conclude on that theory safely. But it did give me some resolution on why i never felt ill eating a toxic plant . if it is so called "toxic" deadly" . perhaps its just like your video here with just a different color berry and misconceptions.
@@jedidamongames1333 Bittersweet nightshade is what you found. It is considered poisonous, but I don't know in what quantities.
A moth larva has taken a liking to my ground cherries to a degree. So these have taken some of the slack . These have naturalized to my yard and I now have 3 quart bags of them frozen. I like to make a "pizza" from acorn crust with them with garlic mustard pesto(black walnut) and milk weed pre silk. Since everything tastes bad with out bacon I.. They naturally make more of a sweet sauce. I have also made some nice pies from them. Still not dead so I have to keep trying with more berries.
@Evange I know how you feel. I'm the same way about poison ivy. I've seen people eat it but I just can't quite do it myself.
I was always curious to the digestible properties of nightshades. Very nice to see my expectations were differed from your results.
As a young child in South Korea, my friends and I would pick and eat the black berries as we find them, when we are out playing. I never knew that it was poisonous until I started studying about wild weeds here in America. Love your new hat. Thanks for all your videos and can't wait for your next book.
I wish I had your knowledge. Really enjoy your videos.
What are the plants called that have the dapple of color on the backside of the leaves
Thanks, I have had quite a few questions about this plant. I think you cleared them all up.
I just found this in my garden. I had planted seeds of what were supposed to be ground cherry, but obviously were not, as the flowers and fruits are much different. Always curious about the nightshades, I did a search and found your video. Thanks much.
Does anyone know what happens if you ingest a raw green berry?
I’ve read a certain amount (not found quantity) of the leaves & berries eaten raw cause hallucinations & other mental adverse affects. means, in certain forms can be fatal.
If this is so, I think it is important for the information of harvesting, preparation & consumption be found & added in detail when educating
Thank you!! I have them in my garden and had no idea what they were!!! 🙌🏻👏🏻
I eat this, but in my country it's called "Gomawiwiri" it's quite delicious, one of my fav leaf vegetables
Hmmmmm. Nightshade pie sounds like a great Halloween dish.
lol---I ate these berries a long time ago ---in the 1970's and I'm still here---they grow wild all over the place here in No. California
I have some in my garden this year and I like the taste.
I had some of those berries last summer and they were like sweet little tomatoes. I am not really so concerned about night shades so much because i don't think a single berry of even Belladonna could kill you. No reason to be stupid about it but mushrooms, yews and hemlocks scares me more.
Well. I tried one of these 2 days ago. It tasted like a blueberry-tomato; loved it. I didn't die! :)
Nightshade family is very intriguing
awesome channel, it would be nice to know what areas the plant is found in.. and it would be wicked if you traveled to some different regions and did some forging videos there.
@EatTheWeeds Thanks for the reply!
I knew about the potato part, but the rest was very informative, thanks.
Thumbs up on the hat ;) Thanks again for your amazing videos. I hope you never stop making them.
I enjoy your videos very much
How about the foliage of horse nettle, Solanum carolinense? I understand that the berries are toxic, but one my favorite field books (ISBN 1570034389) claims that leaves are a good potherb.
Noticed while I was typing that EPDPV commented on this ruderal plant as well. Any thoughts?
@LexicalGap Interesting. Buckthorns are a shrub... hmmm... they have bark. The Solanum americanum is an herb.
@TheMindNomad Deadly Nightshade is Atropa bellodonna I believe
nice video. nice to meet ya. i look forward to more of your videos...guess im going backward thru your old ones...waves~~
@phantomcreamer we eat solanum nigrum.many traditional recipes handed down for centuries.
I suppose eating the berries from the American Nightshade is comparable to eating the Puffer fish (Fugu) in Japan.(?) (although I knew nothing of either, until now.)
I imagine the premise behind eating either/both is knowing that you're playing with potential fire, but with the proper knowledge, you control the 'fire'.(?)
Thanks again for another educational and entertaining video!
Don't get confused! The berries of the American Nightshade turn shiny black when edible, but the wild cucumber is edible when green but dangerous when black!
Actually the cucumber is still edible but is medicinal.
Oh Green Pea just said it's not edible when it turns black
Actually he said its a laxative ... hence it medicinal use. Laxatives are edible, but you only want to use them in a constipation type situation if at all.
Does part 2 exist? Ive never been able to find it.
I'm wondering where it is, too!
mine look likes that but got purple on leaves
I see them all around San Diego. Especially near the coast and on the campus where I work.
i like to think of them as tiny berry flavored tomatoes
Great Video. I'm growing this at my house and the berries haven't killed me yet.
Wow! According to the internet, in Spanish and an indigenous language they are called Yerba mora and chichiquelite respectively. The first means black berry herb if I remember and the second means booby herb. While the fruit is kikass, the leaves make one of my favorite potherbs after two boils to remove the toxins. There is a really good video of a farmer in Oaxaca who "grows" it in a large patch by his corn, and I sure love it myself, wondering why it is our supermarkets want to sell us so much spinach and kale.
Thanks a TON for this video. I found my specimen on my garden two years ago and never knew if it was or was not edible. I've been planting the seed ever since because I just love when its covered in black. I think I have the S. nigrum which you say is not that common (I'm from Argentina, by the way). Again, thank you for this video. I must definitely do some jam with it! Do you happen to know any recipe?
I like blackberry Nightshade for stir fry with garlic or put the rice porridge so lovely for breakfast, watching you from taiwan xoxo
Are they ok to eat if they do have purple underneath the young leaves? Are they poisonous or just a different type?
@phantomcreamer c in wikipedia under solanum nigrum culinary uses.i posted a recipe for tender drumstick leaves Thumbli and flower chutney.u can use this as a prototype for any edible green leaves.this recipe from malnad of karnataka.just fiddle around this formula to fine tune to your taste.make sure to only eat culinary greens and only in season.when in doubt ask your doctor.
@caban2004 No, the other two I mention are edible as well, they just don't grow here.
First time viewing your videos. I need info on Potassium. Please advise what video to watch
@Tallymatt The bitter sweet is toxic. It might have some medicinal uses but as far as we food foragers are concerned it is off limits.
What makes the green berries toxic? Tropanes?
I would love for you to come to my area of Florida. Do you ever travel and teach classes?
I teach every week in Florida. I update my schedule monthly. It's on my webpage Eat The Weeds dot com.
Please make American Nightshade Part II
Thank you brother! I thought I might have been injured or died from eating some lol
Great video! Is Solanum nigrum not edible?
I just discovered this growing from were I once had lettuce. It took over. To satisfy my curiosity I ate one....yup...still breathing. I thought it was elderberry until I looked it up. Do you ever do demonstrations other than videos?
How to see and understand difference between Solanum nigrum and Solanum americanum?
Is Solanum Nigrum edible as well?
Great video I run a community garden here in California and we have it her the berries taste great. :-) I also tell groups of people when they come and take a tour of the garden that it is deadly nightshade and I eat them to see the look on their faces. Keep up the great work
Thanks for the info. I have one of these growing near my ground cherries, but I haven't tried it because I was confused because about half of its flowers are purple and half are white. Every picture I've found only shows white flowers. Now I know having some purple flowers is normal. I'll have to try eating some now.
Dude u tripped the Fuck out lol that's belladonna
+Aaron Are you still with us? What happened when you ate it?
It went in my stomach and I digested it. It wasn't deadly nightshade, it was a variety of black nightshade. Deadly nightshade looks different and I wouldn't eat that.
Aaron I think I'll wait until I'm desperate to eat these berries lmao
Single flowers and berry vs multiple bunch of flowers and berries is the difference...single black berry from a purple bell flower is belladonna...white and yellow flowers in multiples is black nightshade.
@flamedrag18 No... only the young leaves of the ptycanthum have maroon on the underside.
@Lost8Wizard Any book by Steve Brill will work, and his website. He's in New York but the plants are the same.
Here is California as a kid I use to eat berries like these though the plant was annual and only grew to a small shrub.
are these the plants with fine stickers or thorns on the stock?
No that sounds like horse nettle... poisonous.
Ah I love this kind of stuff!!! I appreciate all the info and detailed knowledge you’re sharing!! I’m subscribing cause you’re clearly curious like me😁👍🏻
@bradd774 They are related but to my knowledge they don't naturally cross pollinate.
I made a video of some nightshades and other plants growing up in my yard where a recent tornado took out a bunch of trees. I'm trying to find out what I can and cannot eat. Any advice? I posted it as a response to this video, hopefully you can find it that way.
Hi green, The ones I tried taste almost like cherry tomatoes. Did I not get the right berries?
@RonRay I have eaten both (I lived in Japan a few years) and I think the S. americanum is far safer, and less deadly.
What about silverleaf nightshade? The yellow berries with brown seed center. I only find "toxic to humans" but no further detail. How toxic? 1 berry? Can't find any information.
what do you recommend as a good read with photos in a book for wild weeds, plants for N.E. US? thxs.
I don't know exactly which nightshade it is but my family has been eating this plant forever as far as I can remember... It's quite bitter.. we eat the leaves more than for the berries
Hi, how do you eat the leaves, you cook them? Someone told me you can fry them?
@@lauraberry226 yes, we fry them..kind of like stir fry, with or without meat. Add some salt and minced garlic. The older generation also like to boil them plain and they would eat and drink it like a soup, but plain or no salt.
@@jennyferzangthao Thank you for sharing... my garden is full of this stuff. I'm going to give it a try!
So is Solanum Americanum the only edible Solanum spp.
I live in south eastern Ontario, Canada and I've seen a nightshade around that has purple flowers.
Which do you think it is? and would it be edible?
are pyracantha berrie edible cuz in wiki it said there are types and in a video of youtube it said theyre edible so im confused can ou help me?
@vidaripollen Where is your lineage from? Share your recipes?
wonderful explaination lk 838
From what I understand the calyx is larger on the poisonous ones. Larger than the berry itself. And on the edible it's smaller.
the nightshade i see everywere in ontario have redberries, perhaps Belladonna?
DamiansWatch 22 the red ones are toxic
What does it mean if the back of the leaves have purple on them?
I tried to grow this plant using seeds inside the black berry. The strangest thing is a different species plant came out and no berries ever showed.
Shiny or dull leaves of some plants makes a huge difference.
Thank you!
You are the Paul Stamets of plants.
Always wondered
The potato, also a relative of the nightshade family, I have heard some say the fruit is not edible only the tuber. Is that true? Can you eat the fruit of the potato?
I was under the impression that the deadly nightshade had red or scarlet berries, and both it and belladonna were fine in very small amounts, as it just mimics benadryl in small quantities.
Belladonna is very toxic, the nightshade with red berries is probably “bittersweet nightshade”
@claritynow I've never seen any reference to them being edible.
Welcome back!!
Part 2 please. D;
Atropa Belladonna is the one I've always heard referred to as deadly nightshade.. boy the experts really did mess up the nomenclature. I recently found this American Black Nightshade spontaneously growing on my balcony.. I think it must have been the hummingbirds that brought them because I've never seen any in my immediate neighborhood.
these look same as what I have in my yard I chewed one ripe* tasted sweetish but I also had a tingly poison vibe from the berry so I immediately spit it out and rinsed my mouth none of the stems are dried but normally dark green like the rest of the plant
@phantomcreamer The differences are enumerated on my website.
Thank you #1 learned a lot
There are some growing in my garden.
@AresCassell The common nes are used loosely
Where’s video 2?
You mention that you've never eaten a lot of them in one sitting. Is this merely because you just haven't got around to it, they're so small, it's difficult to collect a lot of them, or because a lot of them might give you a tummy ache?
I have a lot in my yard right now, and I've eaten a lot of them, but like you, not a lot in one sitting.
I really like the flavor, and I think they'd make a fantastic salsa.
In my country Guatemala we eat this as a vegetable all the time. Its sold in the flea markets all over the country. Nothing dangerous about it. Natives the (Mayans) use it as a digestion aid, fever and inflammation. It has many more uses then i can think of. I live in Canada and found it growing in my garden I've being eating it for several years now.
@Tallymatt I found out the name of the plant is Solanum dulcamara, also called bittersweet
If it is the bittersweet nightshade, it will have beautiful, elongated, red berries and it'll be POISONOUS.
i was on a scout trip in the keys on big munson island. they called them trip and die berries, cause they said you would trip real hard... and then die if you ate them