Yes! I live in Florida, US, and this plant appeared in my backyard spontaneously, I probably need to thank birds for it. And they are exactly the reason why I keep them. I have observed several birds eating them, especially mockingbirds. Thank you, Miss Blanche, for such a great infortmation.
I've enjoyed visiting your lovely state since several of my friends have moved there. I especially please to find edible plants you have there that don't grow here in Massachusetts.
My young child got a hold of these berries while playing on the driveway, found them behind an old stump where I don't go. He came to me covered in seeds and juice. I dabble in foraging, mostly on the mycology side, so I'm familiar with the dangers of unidentified plants. Fearing the worst I looked up the plant and found it to be Nightshade. In my frantic searching I found it was specifically Black Nightshade and saw it was possibly considered edible. After watching your video I am at ease that he didn't eat something toxic and will be fine. Thank you for your informative video!
It’s always good to be cautious. However, with young children it’s especially important to be vigilant because their developing bodies may not be able to deal with and tolerate foods that we adults can. I’m glad all turned out well with you and your child…
My family used to pick the black nightshades every year on the field in large bags and used to cook and eat them as vegetables when we were younger. It leaves a delicious bitter taste in your tongue even after you have consumed it. I haven't eaten them for decades and I'm craving for it now. Great video and self explanatory, thank you so much for it
Ah thank you!! I'm so happy I found this, by sheer luck I have let a giant nightshade grow in my garden, tying it with twine but considered it merely an indigenous poisonous ornamental edition, plus the birds like to eat of it's berries And now I know I have a huge yummy bounty to partake. Also apparently in folk medicine and ancient literature these were used to treat asthma.
Thank you so much for this video! Very informative. I had a black nightshade plant come up in one of my garden beds last year for the first time and I made a jam out of the berries. When cooked with sugar, they taste very similar to blackberries. Absolutely delicious. I spread some of the ripe berries throughout my garden in early winter in hopes that I would have more plants come up this year and they are ALL OVER the place!! What a delight! I can't wait to make more delicious jam from the berries and gift it to friends and family as something totally unique and special for the holidays.
Yes these do spread, as you found out. Since they're in they're same family as potatoes & tomatoes, make sure not to give the jam to anyone who may be allergic to these plants...
This looks very similar to a plant In India, called "manathakkali" (Tamil) means "ground tomato" ... We use leaves to prepare green stew (kuzhambhu) and green berries used as vegetable in other stew. Ripped ones can be eaten raw. This is plant is super healthy and especially good for women. (knowledge from my grandmother). One thing in doubt is, the plant available in India is NOT bitter at all.. It is very much tasty when cooked and easily available in local market :)
I looked up manathakkali" & it looks very similar to the black nightshade plant I talk about in my video. I believe this plant originated in Eurasia and eventually made its way to the US . It's wonderful to see how you make use of a plant that most people here (but not me!) consider to be a useless weed!
@@thederb720 This plant has very good medicinal value. Mouth ulcers heal when it is chewed raw. To cure ulcers in the stomach we cook the leaves with lentils tomatoes and grated fresh coconut with a pinch of chilli powder. We eat the dish in accompaniment with rice and cow ghee. Doctors prescribe this as a cure for peptic ulcer.
For mouth ulcers--is it the leaves that are chewed or the berries or the root? The cure for a stomach ulcer sounds delicious--good to eat even if you don't have one!
@@thederb720 leaves. It has a mild bitter taste when eaten raw. It's juice has a great healing medicine. I have experienced it. We cook the leaves with cooked Moog dal tomato and coconut grated with a teaspoon of cumin and half teaspoon of black pepper. Coconut mix should be added last after the greens become cooked and soft in the dal.takes at least cooking time forty minutes but worth it. Watch recipes of "manathakkali koottu "in you tube
After watching a few other videos to help identify this plant, yours was the most helpful. Thank you for comparing them to the dangerous plants. Just tried one, and they taste like tiny tomatoes! ❤
It's important to be as accurate in id-ing a plant since I don't ever want anyone making an unfortunate mistake and choosing a plant. that might cause gastric distress.
Blanche Cybele Derby does have wonderful videos on foraging. So does Green Deane. Have you seen his 'Eat the Weeds' channel on TH-cam? He also has a great website of the same name, with thoroughly researched articles on hundreds of edible plants, and recipes, too.
I've met & went on walks with Deane--he's brilliant, knowledgeable & down to earth. Check out his vids & website. He's from Florida, so if you're ever down there, try to go on one of his walks...
Jefferdaughter yes, I have watched some "eat the weeds videos". The content was great but the video quality was so poor, I wasn't sure what I was looking at. Also, I live in Michigan so a lot of his plants don't grow here😔
I enjoyed these beautiful berries last season they are an AMAZING treat to my palette and my body. All PRAISES to THE CREATOR for these delicious berries.
Right now its November in California. I have thie plant in my backyard! Im exited to eat these! Well more of them as I have eaten 2 and they taste as a strange tomato! I love gathering my own food. Thank you for this!!
@@amaturearcadia hey! yep. they were the same ones in the video! i had them in salads and other things, but i moved across the country and live in florida now. so i can’t get them anymore sadly ):
This plant grows all over my yard. It arrived a year ago and it’s been spreading. Spread throughout the whole neighborhood pretty quick. I never knew it was a native plant until I went to a national park in San Diego and it was all over the place and this was in October so the suckers lived through the dry waterless summer of Southern California into autumn. Very tough adaptable plant. Grows in hot, cold, dry, wet places all over the world I’m starting to cultivate i took cuttings of several examples of them from my yard and planted seeds too. Native Birds and insects love a lot them very beneficial for the local ecosystem so that’s the main reason why I’m spreading them now, but also wanna try breeding them and growing them for the berries. Cool little plant for sure. Grows year round here too. They were still producing in the winter they don’t take any breaks despite their toughness they definitely appreciate being babied by a human they’ve self domesticated themselves in areas I water and grow way bigger there and make more berries than in the places they don’t get watered and are just growing wild.
Yes it does spread--some people erroneously believe it's poisonous and so might not appreciate it. I 've heard from people from all over the world who eat the berries --and some say the leaves are good to eat as well--but I don't want to recommend them until i give them a try. Good luck with your cultivation--I bet the berries are definitely bigger when they get some love. from you..
I had a random edible night shade plant growing in a Lily I bought and I couldn't identify it until it was matured. And so the controversy began. And I keep telling my wife they are edible when they turn black but she thinks I'm gonna get sick lol but now I'm happy I got a bonus plant that I can let spread along my fence line.😊
Your wife is wise to be cautious; show her this video and check with local naturalists about this plant. Then maybe she won't worry if you eat a few berries!
Maybe your wife should up your life insurance, sorry but I've been told growing up to stay away from black nightshade. I trust my dearly departed grandpa, my dad and others more than some random person on TH-cam.
Very articulate video Blanche as I go foraging in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maine. I’m in Connecticut at present and wanted to find this plant especially the berry not knowing these excellent distinctions with poisonous lookalikes. It was a large mountain of information and very much appreciated!! Enjoy your foraging!!
Berries are just starting to appear here in MA so in CT- which is usually warmer-they should be ready now or soon. They don’ ripen all at once so you have several weeks to find them. When you go to Maine they probably will be green so you can have a second harvest:)
Thank you so much for this video. We have several of these growing in an area my hubby had prepared to grow strawberries. The strawberry seeds we planed didn't grow, but, these black nightshade did grow there. We waited until the berries were black, which they still are in the first week of January. Now we know they are safe to eat.
Of course... I've seen plenty of horse nettle and bittersweet nightshade, but not black nightshade yet in my area. Thanks for this awesome video. I love the blues song at the end also.
I amThai. I grew up eating this a lot. I stir fried it with garlic, red chili, oyster sauce and abit of fish sauce with crispy pork belly. It tastes great 👍:)
I love hearing about how people from all over the world use these plants-are you talking about the leaves and /or the berries as some use one or the other or both? I concentrate on the berries rather than the leaves.
The leave, but use the tip that still young leafs. Not just the leafs alone break it with some branches that still young. Like the tip two branches. The barries l just eat fresh it when it purple.
Thank you very much for your video on Edible Nightshade and its poisonous cousins! It's wonderful to learn something new, along with the review of information for a new Forager In-The -Making! God Bless! 🍇🍑🍒
This is the best video about solanum nigrum on TH-cam. I can honestly say that because after filming mine I decided to see what other people had said about it, and I thought I'd watched all existing videos but this came up in my feed today. Many many TH-camrs have click baity scary videos acting like they're scared to eat the one berry they're trying. Others say it's edible but have strict warnings that make it sound potentially dangerous. Even some seed companies that sell cultivars warn people not to eat the berries, and some reporter in the San Francisco chronicle said it was deadly poisonous and not to touch it! Interesting for a plant that "humans" ate before the evolution of Homo sapiens! I like how you showed the different sized berries on different types, your video could be played in a university classroom as part of a botany lesson!
Wow! Thank you for the compliments!! I don't post anything that I haven't tried myself. Knowing that I reach people all over the world, I try to be cautious in what I feature here and perhaps that's why other TH-camrs have strict warnings in their vids. Part of the problem might be the "Nightshade" part of its name--other plants that have that common name can be problematic. Let's hope 2023 will be better than 2022 --in other words: Happy New Year!
@@thederb720 Thank you, you did really good. This Christmas I got a cookbook with a surprise on the back. It had pictures of "wild berries" the author thought people might not know of. One was "Black Nightshade Berry" and as I was unwrapping this there was one in a pot next to me, I have two varieties and one grows little plants in pots and the other grows like ten feet tall. The author of the cook book only wrote a one sentence description, didn't write a single recipe, and apparently has no facebook, twitter, youtube, etc (when a person's got no online presence and I wanna thank them...) so I cannot even contact her. But it's a cool inclusion in the book, and I will post videos and talk about it.
Just be sure that the maintenance staff at the school doesn't spray their grounds with herbicides--most likely they don't as there's so much black nightshade growing there--but it's always best to be careful and cautious.
I love to eat this plant. I'm from Guatemala and we the natives eat this a lot down there. I was soooo happy when I found it growing in my yard in Canada. I recognized it immediately. Your video is very informative. Thank you.
When I was little, I thought all nightshade was poisonous as I was told to avoid it... I did not know there were other identafiable varieties, one being edible so I found this very interesting! Thank you for this information!
Me too--our parents were trying to keep us safe so they, in their ignorance, told us many plants ( that were actually edible) were poisonous or unsafe to eat. Black nightshade berries have been consumed for many years by folks in other countries--we're just catching up.
Black nightshade grows abundantly and wild around my house in the forest I live in. It was so cool seeing them grow this last year, all their little ripe berries dotted with their pretty little white flowers. I left a bunch for the insects and birds, but I harvested about a pint last year. This year, I'm going to harvest much more and try to make some jam. I hope it turns out good, because they smell like salsa to me when I picked them! I also have the bittersweet nightshade growing wildly around my forest, thought i didn't know what it was until this video. I always wondered why birds never ate it.
Great informative video. Nice to have the comparison to the dangerous varieties. We have just discovered the benefits of this tasty little weed ! Happy to let it grow.
It’s always good to check with various sources to be absolutely sure of I’d-the best way is to go on a plant id walk with someone who has actually tried the plants they talk about.
Thanks for this video! I am in the North Carolina Piedmont and found a few of these plants. I think the berries are very tasty! This is the only place I was able to identify this plant.
Thank you so much! I just found this plant in the woods and it just looked delicious. I spent about half an hour trying to figure out if its edible and then i found this video. Thank you
@@thederb720 thank you. I'm 99% sure its it but im doing that edibility test where you start off with a very little bit and every couple days you slowly take more and more until you know wether its edible or not. So far im feeling fine. It had the little white flowers with five pedals, the leaves looked exactly the same too. But no matter hiw sure i think I am, im still going to do the edibility test just to be sure
I tasted the ones that are a weed in my garden. Sweet, seedy and very blue juice, I did spit it out but drying some berries for seeds. Very good video that makes it clear.
if you plant them,they will come! All I do is throw berries on the ground,stomp on themso they're somewhat covered, and i usually get some plants without any effort.
I have weeded this from my garden on Australia. I was aware it was nightshade, but thought it was the poisonous deadly nightshade. I can now see there is a significant difference. With the poisonous one having the larger flowers, single larger berries with large sepal bases. Thankyou.
Amazing Explanation !! I was very shocked when I read in wikipedia on the mention on it being poisonous by the name "Solanum Nigrum". In South India(Tamil nadu) its called as Manathakali and its a yummy delicacy along with rice(curries are made of leaves and the salt dried fruits ) . One of my favourite and i am happy she explained it clearly that there are deceptive family members of this plant . The difference it definitely huge that someone who is used to it must not make a mistake identifying the right black night shade.
In the USA many people don't know about the virtues of black nightshade; people in other countries such as yours are much more informed than we are. Hopefully this video will inform those who think this plant is poisonous to change their minds.But it's also important to know poisonous plants that might be confused with it--proper id is always a must before eating any new plant!
I foolishly ate Atropa berries once because I was young and uneducated. I went on what I will call a "spiritual journey" for a while. I woke up with what felt like the worst hangover ever. From what I've read, I'm lucky to be alive.
Atropa is used as a medicine but in controlled amounts. It's said that the difference between a medicine & poison is how much is consumed; luckily you were able to tolerate the amount you ate.
Thank you, I didn't know what they were and when I heard nightshade, it freaked me out a bit because I tasted one. I replanted the plant that was growing in my rose bush, to it's own spot, & we'll see how it grows for next fall.
Kia ora from NZ we call this healing kai/food Poroporo... grew up a kid harvesting, growing eating Poroporo I'm 61 year(s) Good video... great to hear you eat these healing leaves/kai also. Mauri ora 🇳🇿👍🏻
Kia ora - enjoy the healthy goodness of tenei special kai/food The leave(s) hold the most vitality - nutrition a boost kai. Simple to cook and prepare. I've only today sent a FB invite request... your find a recent vid post I shared relative to poroporo. Grew up a kid eating along with family eating this humble wild weed, along with puha/sow thistle, dandelion roots/leave all them considered wild weeds NAH they're not all good kai. Enjoy poroporo kai 👍🏼
Thank you! I foraged a few branches here in California at the lake we go to because they looked like miniature tomatoes. I was able to root a branch and ripen the berries for seeds from the other branches. I identified but was unsure about eating any until I just found and watched your video. 😊🌱❤
This is so helpful! I have these everywhere here in Ohio and was struggling to rid my pastures of it, but noticed the leaves were always eaten by insects. I thought they were poisonous so was always trying to get rid of them. Now I know it is another great resource on our homestead! I guess I will be spreading seed this fall for a good harvest next year!
These grow easily (as they are considered to be weeds) but the fruit is good. In Africa, people eat the leaves as well. I haven't yet --they get eaten by insects fairly early in their growth.
I often ate the solanum ptychanthum fruit growning on the both sides of the rural road when it went black and I were a child, and now my family uses the leaves of this plant as vegetable and it tastes tasty a little bit bitter but sweaty right after that.
Thanks, very educational, especially since you show the dangerous ones. We have some of the good stuff on our stand and will enjoy them now we are educated.
Hello Blanche! I saw this same exact plant n my backyard last year, I wasn’t sure if it was good or bad, so I did the old way testing, they have a sweetness to them. I sure hope they come back this year!!!!! Thank u
Thank you so much for this! I have this in my garden and I am happy to report it is the edible one. I planted peppers, but somehow these came up instead. I guess my pepper plants couldn't compete.
Very interesting! Given plants and picked berry clusters, hoping the lighter berries will ripen ! Loved seeing you harvest berries and notice that you didn’t pull hard to get the ripe ones off, that teaches me to be patient! Guess I’ll have to wait until closer to fall to pick? I live in the NE corner of Kansas..
Our area has been in a drought for a while, so the berries aren't ripening as early as some other years. Usually I gather them around Labor Dat here in MA but I may have to wait longer this year.
In Indonesia we eat the green berries and not the black ones. These we stir fry with oncom which is a sort of soya bean cake with a type of fugus growing on it. Otherwise we eat the green berries raw with rice and any other fish, chicken or meat dish. Like eating raw cucumbers with your food. They add a nice crunchy texture to the meal. Black night shade is very popular in West Java where people like to forage and eat raw vegetables with their meals.
Fascinating--because I've received comments about how the green berries are not recommended to eat! Perhaps the soil is different in areas of the world where the green berries are considered not edible? I don't know...but clearly they are an important part of your cuisine.
I had been placing a variety of tomato seeds in various parts of the yard as well as pepper seeds and noticed these growing, and realized it must have been wild, as none of the seed packets I had been growing even managed to establish, and it must have been a plant that attempted to grow throughout the years but was always cut down before anything could form. It must be more suited to the environment, and though some concern about it potentially being toxic exists (I assumed it required cooking) it seems perfectly safe when ripened. None of the fruits are ready yet though within a day the green fruit turned completely black, and I believe these are the smaller berries.
It's in the same family as tomato so it probably likes similar growing conditions. just make sure it's black nightshade & not any of the toxic lookalikes I pictured in this video.
Black Nightshade looks similar to German Blackberries in the berries. German Blackberries also grow in groups, with small "leaves" around the berries. The berries are ripe, when the green surrounds turn yellow. They are called Schwartzenbeeren where I live, and used in pies, instead of eaten alone. I looked up Schwartzenbeeren while writing this, and their latin name is Solanum nigrum, so they are the same plant. (additional note: The Schwartzenbeeren in North Dakota was brought over here by the German's who came from the Ukraine region after the Russian Revolution.)
Thank you for this informative video. I just got some seeds for these plants and looking forward to them. I was a bit skeptical but have done the research and went forward with ordering them.
Oh, thank god I saw this! I had so many of the black nightshade in my garden last year and people in my garden group said they were deadly nightshade so I was panicked so weeded them out but couldn’t get all the berries
That's the trouble with common names --they can cause confusion .But it's always wise to be cautious & make sure of proper id of any plant you may consider eating. Probably the plants will return--after all, they're hardy weeds!
Some of these grew near my house during the summer. We didn't pick any because we couldn't positively ID them. I think if they grow again next year I will try making jam from them.
Amazing and beautiful! I found a lovely weed and placed it roots and all in my pond sump filter. It's has grown exponentially with so many berries! Everyone tries to get me to pull it out but I just couldn't. It's one about 2 foot tall and full of berries hydroponically! It sure took to the pond water.
It makes sense bugs would want to eat them since they're in the same family as tomatoes--your tomatoes will be safe & you'll still have some Black Nightshade berries to eat as well.
We call it "njama njama " in Cameroon. It's a staple traditional food in the north west province of Cameroon. We eat the leaves and soft stem of this vegetable and leave the seeds for planting. I had no idea one could eat the berries
I've heard from several folks in different countries around the world about how they use this "lowly weed"--I don't think it's a weed at all--it provides good food!
I had one pop up in my garden compost, I think. Just lived 24 hrs after ingesting my first berry!! August 2023....unmistakably black nightshade. Just wait till ready to drop, to be super safe. 😊😊😊
I grow wonderberry which are variety of nightshade they are very good and productive. Chinese eat them green but they boil them before eating. I was looking for the recipe when I saw your video. It's call black nightshade nan pie.
Me, too! A friend from El Salvador told me that they eat this plant but she hasn’t tried eating the ones growing in her backyard for fear of pesticide contamination. Now I’m going to be mindful and wait for the next blackberries to come up. I can’t wait to try them.
Can you tell us more about how it's used to cure ulcers? I might have an ulcer and would be nice to know this plant that just sprouted in my garden is my cure!
Great video and chock full of informative knowledge. I am determined to find the edible tasting black nightshade. I didn’t devote any time looking for the black nightshade edibles at the proper time. Blanche I made autumn olive syrup, white mulberry, black mulberry, hawthorn, wineberry. Maine has a new berry to me called Haskap berries. A huge tree farm in Fort Kent ME. Lmao as I responded to this video 3 years ago !! But I will leave the comment because of the syrup making. I wonder what black nightshade syrup would taste like? I use a 11 quart steam juicer and then fill it up.
Thanks for your Positive response and info about the Haskap berries. The syrup you made--was it a combo of all those fruits? I imagine not, since the ripening times of these berries are different. Sounds like black nightshade syrup might be a possibility... Thanks for the tip about the Haskap (aka Honeyberry) farm in Maine: they're called Allagash Farms located in New Canada ME. They have pick your own berries during the summer--it makes me want to go up there because the few we have don't produce much--they like colder climates. I want to do a future YT video on these but I can't find anyplace in the US that will mail them or powder made from them--found places in Canada and in the Uk --postage impossibly high.
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I love your videos, Blanche. You have such a relaxing voice and thorough explanations.
Thanks. I include as much detailed info to make sure my viewers can id and enjoy the berries.
Yes! I live in Florida, US, and this plant appeared in my backyard spontaneously, I probably need to thank birds for it. And they are exactly the reason why I keep them. I have observed several birds eating them, especially mockingbirds. Thank you, Miss Blanche, for such a great infortmation.
I've enjoyed visiting your lovely state since several of my friends have moved there. I especially please to find edible plants you have there that don't grow here in Massachusetts.
My young child got a hold of these berries while playing on the driveway, found them behind an old stump where I don't go. He came to me covered in seeds and juice. I dabble in foraging, mostly on the mycology side, so I'm familiar with the dangers of unidentified plants. Fearing the worst I looked up the plant and found it to be Nightshade. In my frantic searching I found it was specifically Black Nightshade and saw it was possibly considered edible. After watching your video I am at ease that he didn't eat something toxic and will be fine. Thank you for your informative video!
It’s always good to be cautious. However, with young children it’s especially important to be vigilant because their developing bodies may not be able to deal with and tolerate foods that we adults can. I’m glad all turned out well with you and your child…
My family used to pick the black nightshades every year on the field in large bags and used to cook and eat them as vegetables when we were younger. It leaves a delicious bitter taste in your tongue even after you have consumed it.
I haven't eaten them for decades and I'm craving for it now.
Great video and self explanatory, thank you so much for it
I'm going to check out the leaves as I only have eaten the berries...
I just discovered your channel. I'm studying botany at university and your channel has inspired me to explore and forage nature.
Thank you--hope you can use what I present here to enrich your culinary repetoire.
Ah thank you!! I'm so happy I found this, by sheer luck
I have let a giant nightshade grow in my garden, tying it with twine but considered it merely an indigenous poisonous ornamental edition, plus the birds like to eat of it's berries
And now I know I have a huge yummy bounty to partake. Also apparently in folk medicine and ancient literature these were used to treat asthma.
There are so many uses of plants yet to be discovered...
Thank you so much for this video! Very informative. I had a black nightshade plant come up in one of my garden beds last year for the first time and I made a jam out of the berries. When cooked with sugar, they taste very similar to blackberries. Absolutely delicious. I spread some of the ripe berries throughout my garden in early winter in hopes that I would have more plants come up this year and they are ALL OVER the place!! What a delight! I can't wait to make more delicious jam from the berries and gift it to friends and family as something totally unique and special for the holidays.
Yes these do spread, as you found out. Since they're in they're same family as potatoes & tomatoes, make sure not to give the jam to anyone who may be allergic to these plants...
This looks very similar to a plant In India, called "manathakkali" (Tamil) means "ground tomato" ... We use leaves to prepare green stew (kuzhambhu) and green berries used as vegetable in other stew. Ripped ones can be eaten raw. This is plant is super healthy and especially good for women. (knowledge from my grandmother). One thing in doubt is, the plant available in India is NOT bitter at all.. It is very much tasty when cooked and easily available in local market :)
Mangala Mary yes bro same i’m from punjab and we say this “kaliya bhamola”
I looked up manathakkali" & it looks very similar to the black nightshade plant I talk about in my video. I believe this plant originated in Eurasia and eventually made its way to the US . It's wonderful to see how you make use of a plant that most people here (but not me!) consider to be a useless weed!
@@thederb720 This plant has very good medicinal value. Mouth ulcers heal when it is chewed raw. To cure ulcers in the stomach we cook the leaves with lentils tomatoes and grated fresh coconut with a pinch of chilli powder. We eat the dish in accompaniment with rice and cow ghee. Doctors prescribe this as a cure for peptic ulcer.
For mouth ulcers--is it the leaves that are chewed or the berries or the root?
The cure for a stomach ulcer sounds delicious--good to eat even if you don't have one!
@@thederb720 leaves. It has a mild bitter taste when eaten raw. It's juice has a great healing medicine. I have experienced it. We cook the leaves with cooked Moog dal tomato and coconut grated with a teaspoon of cumin and half teaspoon of black pepper. Coconut mix should be added last after the greens become cooked and soft in the dal.takes at least cooking time forty minutes but worth it. Watch recipes of "manathakkali koottu "in you tube
Plenty of black nightshade on my hiking trail. On a plant ID app it was identified as Garden Huckleberry in the nightshade family. Thanks for video.
They can been very weedy so they can spread all over.
I am eating night shade seeds since 35 years. It is juicy sweet and sour and yes it has got refreshing taste. Thanks for the update.
My discovery of this plant was more recent than yours...I'm glad I found it.
After watching a few other videos to help identify this plant, yours was the most helpful. Thank you for comparing them to the dangerous plants. Just tried one, and they taste like tiny tomatoes! ❤
It's important to be as accurate in id-ing a plant since I don't ever want anyone making an unfortunate mistake and choosing a plant. that might cause gastric distress.
love your narration!
Thank you!
Thank you for your thoughtfulness! You did a great job! I look forward to watching your other videos.
I'm pleased you like them !
Your videos are as much lovely as instructive, thank you!
I don't want my videos to be boring (like so many films on nature I saw when I was in elementary school) Thanks for your comment...
You have the BEST wild edibles videos! Love your work, Blanche. Great photos and thorough explanations. Always look forward to more from you.
Blanche Cybele Derby does have wonderful videos on foraging. So does Green Deane. Have you seen his 'Eat the Weeds' channel on TH-cam? He also has a great website of the same name, with thoroughly researched articles on hundreds of edible plants, and recipes, too.
Thank you! I love sharing my experiences with my wild friends with my internet friends!
I've met & went on walks with Deane--he's brilliant, knowledgeable & down to earth. Check out his vids & website. He's from Florida, so if you're ever down there, try to go on one of his walks...
Jefferdaughter yes, I have watched some "eat the weeds videos". The content was great but the video quality was so poor, I wasn't sure what I was looking at. Also, I live in Michigan so a lot of his plants don't grow here😔
I enjoyed these beautiful berries last season they are an AMAZING treat to my palette and my body. All PRAISES to THE CREATOR for these delicious berries.
There is so much to be thankful for. Theere's so much bounty all around us.
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Right now its November in California. I have thie plant in my backyard! Im exited to eat these! Well more of them as I have eaten 2 and they taste as a strange tomato! I love gathering my own food. Thank you for this!!
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Just make sure they are absolutely black--no green in them.
You still alive??
@@amaturearcadia hey! yep. they were the same ones in the video! i had them in salads and other things, but i moved across the country and live in florida now. so i can’t get them anymore sadly ):
Thank you so much. This plant randomly sprouted 20-30 plants throughout my garden somehow this year, and they are now ripening.
They can take over an area & successfully seed themselves.
This plant grows all over my yard. It arrived a year ago and it’s been spreading. Spread throughout the whole neighborhood pretty quick.
I never knew it was a native plant until I went to a national park in San Diego and it was all over the place and this was in October so the suckers lived through the dry waterless summer of Southern California into autumn. Very tough adaptable plant. Grows in hot, cold, dry, wet places all over the world
I’m starting to cultivate i took cuttings of several examples of them from my yard and planted seeds too.
Native Birds and insects love a lot them very beneficial for the local ecosystem so that’s the main reason why I’m spreading them now, but also wanna try breeding them and growing them for the berries. Cool little plant for sure. Grows year round here too. They were still producing in the winter they don’t take any breaks
despite their toughness they definitely appreciate being babied by a human they’ve self domesticated themselves in areas I water and grow way bigger there and make more berries than in the places they don’t get watered and are just growing wild.
Yes it does spread--some people erroneously believe it's poisonous and so might not appreciate it. I 've heard from people from all over the world who eat the berries --and some say the leaves are good to eat as well--but I don't want to recommend them until i give them a try. Good luck with your cultivation--I bet the berries are definitely bigger when they get some love. from you..
Just discovered this channel as my interest for foraging grows❤
Keep watching--more to come.
great videos! very informative, thanks for sharing
I love to inspire people to try new plants.
These actually grow in my yard so I might try them someday
I had a random edible night shade plant growing in a Lily I bought and I couldn't identify it until it was matured. And so the controversy began. And I keep telling my wife they are edible when they turn black but she thinks I'm gonna get sick lol but now I'm happy I got a bonus plant that I can let spread along my fence line.😊
Your wife is wise to be cautious; show her this video and check with local naturalists about this plant. Then maybe she won't worry if you eat a few berries!
I also have a random plant in my pot and now it has lush green big leaves. Today it has flowered. Waiting for the berries😀
If the stem leave under berry is smaller then berry it's not belladonna if its stem under berry bigger then fruit its belladonna its deadly
Maybe your wife should up your life insurance, sorry but I've been told growing up to stay away from black nightshade. I trust my dearly departed grandpa, my dad and others more than some random person on TH-cam.
Very articulate video Blanche as I go foraging in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maine. I’m in Connecticut at present and wanted to find this plant especially the berry not knowing these excellent distinctions with poisonous lookalikes. It was a large mountain of information and very much appreciated!! Enjoy your foraging!!
Berries are just starting to appear here in MA so in CT- which is usually warmer-they should be ready now or soon. They don’ ripen all at once so you have several weeks to find them. When you go to Maine they probably will be green so you can have a second harvest:)
Thank you for this video. I love your highly informative, no nonsense style
I appreciate your positive comments.
Thank you so much for this video. We have several of these growing in an area my hubby had prepared to grow strawberries. The strawberry seeds we planed didn't grow, but, these black nightshade did grow there. We waited until the berries were black, which they still are in the first week of January. Now we know they are safe to eat.
You're lucky to have these berries available in January! Here in Massachusetts they died off in late October.
Of course... I've seen plenty of horse nettle and bittersweet nightshade, but not black nightshade yet in my area. Thanks for this awesome video. I love the blues song at the end also.
Keep looking--it's quite a common weed.
This randomly popped up in my garden so now I have a new plant to harvest. Your video helped thank you!
Good luck...
Great video. Garden full of them. Thank you.
They do tend to take over...
I amThai. I grew up eating this a lot. I stir fried it with garlic, red chili, oyster sauce and abit of fish sauce with crispy pork belly. It tastes great 👍:)
I love hearing about how people from all over the world use these plants-are you talking about the leaves and /or the berries as some use one or the other or both? I concentrate on the berries rather than the leaves.
The leave, but use the tip that still young leafs. Not just the leafs alone break it with some branches that still young. Like the tip two branches.
The barries l just eat fresh it when it purple.
Very thorough. I appreciate you pointing you characteristics to compare between the edible plant and its lookalikes.
I always want people to be sure of a plant's characteristics before eating it.
Thank you for your video. Now I'm more confident in trying some of these berries that grew up in my backyard. God bless
Just be sure of their id and try a small amount to see how your body reacts.
Thank you!! I have these growing all around my garden and I needed to know if these were edible.
This information is very valuable
Hope you enjoy them.
Thank you for the informative video!
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This is one of my favorite fruits and I hope I conveyed that in this video.
Thank you very much for your video on Edible Nightshade and its poisonous cousins! It's wonderful to learn something new, along with the review of information for a new Forager In-The -Making! God Bless! 🍇🍑🍒
Good luck on your new adventure in learning about edible plants; I'm pleased to be a part of it...
love your videos, so useful, and also just pleasant to watch and listen to your voice. you have a great voice!
thank you.
This is the best video about solanum nigrum on TH-cam. I can honestly say that because after filming mine I decided to see what other people had said about it, and I thought I'd watched all existing videos but this came up in my feed today. Many many TH-camrs have click baity scary videos acting like they're scared to eat the one berry they're trying. Others say it's edible but have strict warnings that make it sound potentially dangerous. Even some seed companies that sell cultivars warn people not to eat the berries, and some reporter in the San Francisco chronicle said it was deadly poisonous and not to touch it! Interesting for a plant that "humans" ate before the evolution of Homo sapiens! I like how you showed the different sized berries on different types, your video could be played in a university classroom as part of a botany lesson!
Wow! Thank you for the compliments!! I don't post anything that I haven't tried myself. Knowing that I reach people all over the world, I try to be cautious in what I feature here and perhaps that's why other TH-camrs have strict warnings in their vids. Part of the problem might be the "Nightshade" part of its name--other plants that have that common name can be problematic. Let's hope 2023 will be better than 2022 --in other words: Happy New Year!
@@thederb720 Thank you, you did really good. This Christmas I got a cookbook with a surprise on the back. It had pictures of "wild berries" the author thought people might not know of. One was "Black Nightshade Berry" and as I was unwrapping this there was one in a pot next to me, I have two varieties and one grows little plants in pots and the other grows like ten feet tall. The author of the cook book only wrote a one sentence description, didn't write a single recipe, and apparently has no facebook, twitter, youtube, etc (when a person's got no online presence and I wanna thank them...) so I cannot even contact her. But it's a cool inclusion in the book, and I will post videos and talk about it.
Yay! Thank you so much, now I know that there is tons of Black Nightshade growing around my school.
Also, your granddaughter is so adorable!😁
Just be sure that the maintenance staff at the school doesn't spray their grounds with herbicides--most likely they don't as there's so much black nightshade growing there--but it's always best to be careful and cautious.
She's growing up so fast. She was a baby in my black locust video & she's now fast approaching her tween years.
I love to eat this plant. I'm from Guatemala and we the natives eat this a lot down there. I was soooo happy when I found it growing in my yard in Canada. I recognized it immediately. Your video is very informative. Thank you.
This plant sure gets around- Guatemala, Canada & USA (I believe it's originally from Africa).
Guess this plant gets around...! Thanks for the compliment.
When I was little, I thought all nightshade was poisonous as I was told to avoid it... I did not know there were other identafiable varieties, one being edible so I found this very interesting! Thank you for this information!
Me too--our parents were trying to keep us safe so they, in their ignorance, told us many plants ( that were actually edible) were poisonous or unsafe to eat. Black nightshade berries have been consumed for many years by folks in other countries--we're just catching up.
Beautiful grand daughter!
I agree!
This has taken over my garden and I kept ripping it out, for fear it would harm me and my children and for nothing! Thank you!!
on't overdo eating the berries--especially the children-- to make sure you don't have an adverse reaction, which cam happen when eating a new food...
Love the music too: nice surprise!
I always try to find suitable music--especially from people who are talented but haven't yet been "discovered."
Another excellent video Blanche!
Sorry this reply is so late--just found it today...Thanks for your support.
No problem Blanche!
Black nightshade grows abundantly and wild around my house in the forest I live in. It was so cool seeing them grow this last year, all their little ripe berries dotted with their pretty little white flowers. I left a bunch for the insects and birds, but I harvested about a pint last year. This year, I'm going to harvest much more and try to make some jam. I hope it turns out good, because they smell like salsa to me when I picked them!
I also have the bittersweet nightshade growing wildly around my forest, thought i didn't know what it was until this video. I always wondered why birds never ate it.
It would be interesting to know how your jam turns out...
I just discovered this Channel and I love it!
Thank you--pass the word on to your friends.
Wow love your video....always interested in what there is to eat outside.
Thank you!
Enjoyed the video very much. Thanks. Having one black nightshade vine in the backyard, which attracts a lot of birds.
Thank you--I don't know why i'm seeing your comment from 6 years ago just now!
Great informative video. Nice to have the comparison to the dangerous varieties. We have just discovered the benefits of this tasty little weed ! Happy to let it grow.
Enjoy!
Watched several videos with different people but after this video I’m super confident and completely trust you
It’s always good to check with various sources to be absolutely sure of I’d-the best way is to go on a plant id walk with someone who has actually tried the plants they talk about.
Your voice is therapeutic. Thank you
And thanks for taking the time to compliment me.
Thanks for this video! I am in the North Carolina Piedmont and found a few of these plants. I think the berries are very tasty! This is the only place I was able to identify this plant.
It's fairly weedy so it should be plentiful in disturbed areas. Keep looking!
Thank you so much! I just found this plant in the woods and it just looked delicious. I spent about half an hour trying to figure out if its edible and then i found this video. Thank you
I tend to find these in more open areas than in the woods; make sure your id is correct.
@@thederb720 thank you. I'm 99% sure its it but im doing that edibility test where you start off with a very little bit and every couple days you slowly take more and more until you know wether its edible or not. So far im feeling fine. It had the little white flowers with five pedals, the leaves looked exactly the same too. But no matter hiw sure i think I am, im still going to do the edibility test just to be sure
@@williamwhite9481 It's better to be cautious than sick!
I tasted the ones that are a weed in my garden. Sweet, seedy and very blue juice, I did spit it out but drying some berries for seeds.
Very good video that makes it clear.
if you plant them,they will come! All I do is throw berries on the ground,stomp on themso they're somewhat covered, and i usually get some plants without any effort.
Hi, I just found your channel recently and I really enjoy it. :)
Everything is well described and the video editing and footage is done well !!
Thanks. Keep checking my channel as I'm adding videos as quickly as i can.
Thank you for your compliments!
I have weeded this from my garden on Australia. I was aware it was nightshade, but thought it was the poisonous deadly nightshade. I can now see there is a significant difference. With the poisonous one having the larger flowers, single larger berries with large sepal bases. Thankyou.
Glad I could be of help
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Amazing Explanation !! I was very shocked when I read in wikipedia on the mention on it being poisonous by the name "Solanum Nigrum". In South India(Tamil nadu) its called as Manathakali and its a yummy delicacy along with rice(curries are made of leaves and the salt dried fruits ) . One of my favourite and i am happy she explained it clearly that there are deceptive family members of this plant . The difference it definitely huge that someone who is used to it must not make a mistake identifying the right black night shade.
In the USA many people don't know about the virtues of black nightshade; people in other countries such as yours are much more informed than we are. Hopefully this video will inform those who think this plant is poisonous to change their minds.But it's also important to know poisonous plants that might be confused with it--proper id is always a must before eating any new plant!
I foolishly ate Atropa berries once because I was young and uneducated. I went on what I will call a "spiritual journey" for a while. I woke up with what felt like the worst hangover ever. From what I've read, I'm lucky to be alive.
Atropa is used as a medicine but in controlled amounts. It's said that the difference between a medicine & poison is how much is consumed; luckily you were able to tolerate the amount you ate.
Thank you, I didn't know what they were and when I heard nightshade, it freaked me out a bit because I tasted one. I replanted the plant that was growing in my rose bush, to it's own spot, & we'll see how it grows for next fall.
Good luck!
Kia ora from NZ we call this healing kai/food Poroporo... grew up a kid harvesting, growing eating Poroporo I'm 61 year(s)
Good video... great to hear you eat these healing leaves/kai also.
Mauri ora 🇳🇿👍🏻
II'm about to try these leaves as soon as i can find some this spring.
Kia ora - enjoy the healthy goodness of tenei special kai/food
The leave(s) hold the most vitality - nutrition a boost kai.
Simple to cook and prepare.
I've only today sent a FB invite request... your find a recent vid post I shared relative to poroporo.
Grew up a kid eating along with family eating this humble wild weed, along with puha/sow thistle, dandelion roots/leave all them considered wild weeds NAH they're not all good kai.
Enjoy poroporo kai 👍🏼
Thank you! I foraged a few branches here in California at the lake we go to because they looked like miniature tomatoes. I was able to root a branch and ripen the berries for seeds from the other branches. I identified but was unsure about eating any until I just found and watched your video. 😊🌱❤
Glad it worked out for you. Most people consider black nightshade to be a weed- but you gave it a try! :)
This is so helpful! I have these everywhere here in Ohio and was struggling to rid my pastures of it, but noticed the leaves were always eaten by insects. I thought they were poisonous so was always trying to get rid of them. Now I know it is another great resource on our homestead! I guess I will be spreading seed this fall for a good harvest next year!
These grow easily (as they are considered to be weeds) but the fruit is good.
In Africa, people eat the leaves as well. I haven't yet --they get eaten by insects fairly early in their growth.
Thank you for this! I always thought they smelled vaguely like tomatoes when I pulled them, now I'll have to try them instead of discarding them!
I often ate the solanum ptychanthum fruit growning on the both sides of the rural road when it went black and I were a child, and now my family uses the leaves of this plant as vegetable and it tastes tasty a little bit bitter but sweaty right after that.
Many people have mentioned to me about the leaves edibility--that's something I've put on my "to do" list to try...
Thanks, very educational, especially since you show the dangerous ones. We have some of the good stuff on our stand and will enjoy them now we are educated.
Glad You found this info useful & will give the fruit a try…
Thank you for this clear, informative video. Found this plant today, and consulted your video for information. Will try it.
TRy a little at first to see how your bod reacts...
Hello Blanche! I saw this same exact plant n my backyard last year, I wasn’t sure if it was good or bad, so I did the old way testing, they have a sweetness to them. I sure hope they come back this year!!!!! Thank u
They probably will--they're considered to be weeds.
Thank you so much for this! I have this in my garden and I am happy to report it is the edible one. I planted peppers, but somehow these came up instead. I guess my pepper plants couldn't compete.
It's interesting this happened, as both Black Nightshade & Peppers are in the same family (Solanaceae).
Same thing happened here, I was expecting bell peppers and got those instead.
Thank you for this! I had a few Black Nightshade spring up with my vegetables and was curious about if they could be eaten. Loved the video.
These berries are so often overlooked- I hope this video can do a little to change that…
Thanks for this young lady, I never would thought these where edible.
Very interesting! Given plants and picked berry clusters, hoping the lighter berries will ripen ! Loved seeing you harvest berries and notice that you didn’t pull hard to get the ripe ones off, that teaches me to be patient! Guess I’ll have to wait until closer to fall to pick? I live in the NE corner of Kansas..
Our area has been in a drought for a while, so the berries aren't ripening as early as some other years. Usually I gather them around Labor Dat here in MA but I may have to wait longer this year.
In Indonesia we eat the green berries and not the black ones. These we stir fry with oncom which is a sort of soya bean cake with a type of fugus growing on it. Otherwise we eat the green berries raw with rice and any other fish, chicken or meat dish. Like eating raw cucumbers with your food. They add a nice crunchy texture to the meal. Black night shade is very popular in West Java where people like to forage and eat raw vegetables with their meals.
Fascinating--because I've received comments about how the green berries are not recommended to eat! Perhaps the soil is different in areas of the world where the green berries are considered not edible? I don't know...but clearly they are an important part of your cuisine.
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I really liked your 50th's video and the music you had with. New survival Bushcraft prepping but I really like your plants talk to. Gingdah 🚶💀
I definitely think that knowledge of edible plants can help with survival, bushcraft & prepping so I'm pleased you find may video informative.
You have anew sub... I have so many of these in my back yard !😊
Thanks for the sub--spread the word...
I had been placing a variety of tomato seeds in various parts of the yard as well as pepper seeds and noticed these growing, and realized it must have been wild, as none of the seed packets I had been growing even managed to establish, and it must have been a plant that attempted to grow throughout the years but was always cut down before anything could form. It must be more suited to the environment, and though some concern about it potentially being toxic exists (I assumed it required cooking) it seems perfectly safe when ripened. None of the fruits are ready yet though within a day the green fruit turned completely black, and I believe these are the smaller berries.
It's in the same family as tomato so it probably likes similar growing conditions. just make sure it's black nightshade & not any of the toxic lookalikes I pictured in this video.
@@thederb720 Indeed, it is one of the safe ones. Thank you.
99% these have occurred naturally on my allotment all the way over in england, grimsby! thanks very much
They are fairly common to the chagrin of some gardeners.
Unbelievably good content and explanation. Thank you. I was wondering how to identify them easily in nature.
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Black Nightshade looks similar to German Blackberries in the berries. German Blackberries also grow in groups, with small "leaves" around the berries. The berries are ripe, when the green surrounds turn yellow. They are called Schwartzenbeeren where I live, and used in pies, instead of eaten alone. I looked up Schwartzenbeeren while writing this, and their latin name is Solanum nigrum, so they are the same plant. (additional note: The Schwartzenbeeren in North Dakota was brought over here by the German's who came from the Ukraine region after the Russian Revolution.)
Fascinating! Many of my favorite plants were brought over to the US from other countries...
I've seen these berries, but never knew they're edible. Thank you for the great video!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this informative video. I just got some seeds for these plants and looking forward to them. I was a bit skeptical but have done the research and went forward with ordering them.
Good luck--they should grow as they are weedy...
Oh, thank god I saw this! I had so many of the black nightshade in my garden last year and people in my garden group said they were deadly nightshade so I was panicked so weeded them out but couldn’t get all the berries
That's the trouble with common names --they can cause confusion .But it's always wise to be cautious & make sure of proper id of any plant you may consider eating. Probably the plants will return--after all, they're hardy weeds!
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Some of these grew near my house during the summer. We didn't pick any because we couldn't positively ID them. I think if they grow again next year I will try making jam from them.
Just make sure of proper id. They're tasty ; i've never tried making jam from them--hope it turns out well.
Amazing and beautiful! I found a lovely weed and placed it roots and all in my pond sump filter. It's has grown exponentially with so many berries! Everyone tries to get me to pull it out but I just couldn't. It's one about 2 foot tall and full of berries hydroponically! It sure took to the pond water.
Fascinating! --looks like it's the best way to get lots of berries.
These often grow in my garden. I always leave them because the bugs seem to prefer them to my tomatoes. I do also eat the berries when they’re ripe.
It makes sense bugs would want to eat them since they're in the same family as tomatoes--your tomatoes will be safe & you'll still have some Black Nightshade berries to eat as well.
We call it "njama njama " in Cameroon. It's a staple traditional food in the north west province of Cameroon. We eat the leaves and soft stem of this vegetable and leave the seeds for planting. I had no idea one could eat the berries
I've heard from several folks in different countries around the world about how they use this "lowly weed"--I don't think it's a weed at all--it provides good food!
Yes it does. 🥰🥰
I had one pop up in my garden compost, I think. Just lived 24 hrs after ingesting my first berry!! August 2023....unmistakably black nightshade. Just wait till ready to drop, to be super safe. 😊😊😊
It's always good to be cautious--when trying any new plant, go slow and eat a small amount to see how your body reacts.
I grow wonderberry which are variety of nightshade they are very good and productive. Chinese eat them green but they boil them before eating. I was looking for the recipe when I saw your video. It's call black nightshade nan pie.
I've never made a pie with just these berries; instead I usually add a few--in combination with other fruits-- to sauces & smoothies.
Thank you for this valuable information.
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Indian name is Manathakkali....... botanical name is Solanum nigrum and the English name is 'Black night shade', Sun berry or 'wonder berry'.
When a plant has many names, It 's a sign that many people have found uses for it...
This randomly grew in a pot I have with other plants here in Spain. No idea where the seed appeared from.
Most likely, birds--they do get around...
Great video
awe man! I wish i watched this vid before I cut all of my plants X(
They may come back; they're weeds, after all! :)
Me too
Me, too! A friend from El Salvador told me that they eat this plant but she hasn’t tried eating the ones growing in her backyard for fear of pesticide contamination. Now I’m going to be mindful and wait for the next blackberries to come up. I can’t wait to try them.
In tamilnadu (south India), this black nightshade is one important green used here. We can use both it's fruits and leaves. It will cure ulcer.
Can you tell us more about how it's used to cure ulcers? I might have an ulcer and would be nice to know this plant that just sprouted in my garden is my cure!
Fascinating to learn about other uses.
Great video and chock full of informative knowledge. I am determined to find the edible tasting black nightshade. I didn’t devote any time looking for the black nightshade edibles at the proper time.
Blanche I made autumn olive syrup, white mulberry, black mulberry, hawthorn, wineberry.
Maine has a new berry to me called Haskap berries. A huge tree farm in Fort Kent ME.
Lmao as I responded to this video 3 years ago !! But I will leave the comment because of the syrup making. I wonder what black nightshade syrup would taste like? I use a 11 quart steam juicer and then fill it up.
Thanks for your Positive response and info about the Haskap berries.
The syrup you made--was it a combo of all those fruits? I imagine not, since the ripening times of these berries are different. Sounds like black nightshade syrup might be a possibility...
Thanks for the tip about the Haskap (aka Honeyberry) farm in Maine: they're called Allagash Farms located in New Canada ME. They have pick your own berries during the summer--it makes me want to go up there because the few we have don't produce much--they like colder climates. I want to do a future YT video on these but I can't find anyplace in the US that will mail them or powder made from them--found places in Canada and in the Uk --postage impossibly high.