Presenting an album of pictures from BG Vienna showing edible plants I found in the collections and talked about during my walk and talk arranged by Arche Noah!
The entrance to the garden
Hosta kikutii var pygmaea
Hosta siebodiana “Elegans”
Scorzonera austriaca in the wild garden
Water leaf or Indian salad (Hydrophyllum)
Osmorhiza occidentalis
Cryptotaenia japonica “Atropurpurea”
Apium (Helioscadium) repens is presumably edible (sometimes classified as a subspecies of Apium nodiflorum)
Bunium bulbocastaneum
Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely)
Trachystemon orientalis
Peucedanum officinale is the source of a gum!
Elaeagnus angustifolia
Kalimeris incana
Gunnera tinctoria is one of the 80 in my book!
Labelled as Allium oreophilum , which it isn’t, looks like a good form of Allium senescens or hybrid!
Not this either, looks like the great Allium imposter Allium cyathophorum var farreri
Hemerocallis
Senecio cannabifolius…used as a vegetable in the Far East. I’ve lost mine, any chance of a new starter Trond Høy?
Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), a plant with a multitude of uses…many food uses, medicinal and the leaves have also been used as plates!
Chenopodium bonus-henricus, Albania’s most popular wild foraged edible!
Lilium pomponium, a lily from southern France and north Italy – the bulbs have been used for food!
Allium victorialis grows in the Alps
Meum athamaticum
Syneleisis aconitifolia is in my Japanese foraging book!
Syneleisis aconitifolia is in my Japanese foraging book!
Serratula coronata – I sowed this one for the first time…used for food in Korea..
Crithmum maritimum, death samphire, but perfectly edible!
There was a bed of 6-7 different Angelica species including this one, Angelica purpurascens
Angelica anomala
Angelica gigas
The smallest species I’ve seen, Angelica polymorpha from East Asia
Angelica amurensis
Angelica acutiloba
Angelica anomala
Aster ageratoides
Aster (Eurybia) macrophylla, a Native Americam food plant!
Aster glehnii is used in the Far East
It’s not often I see Aster scaber (see my book) in botanical gardens!
Basella alba and cousin Anredera cordifolia (Madeira vine)
Talinum paniculatum
Viola alba
Siberian pea tree (Caragana) growing an producing masses of small beans in the warmth of Vienna
Ostrich fern growing well in damp soil by a stream
Xanthorrhoea (grass tree or black boy) from Australia was considered as a future crop for sugar in the 19th century
Cornus kousa, an edimental!!
Sedum
Parietaria, edible non-stinging nettle
Laportea canadensis, Canadian wood nettle
Urtica cannabina
Althaea officinalis, Marshmallow
Callirhoe is a great edimental in the Mallow family from North America
Cornus kousa, an edimental!!
Hibiscus trionum
There’s a good collection of edible Sanguisorba species (edible young shoots), most better than overrated S. officinalis (salad burnet). This is Sanguisorba albiflora
Sanguisorba tenuifolia var purpurea
Sanguisorba hakusanensis
Sanguisorba obtusa
Entrance to the administration building where I met the garden’s director!
Next to the entrance to the entrance to the administration building…Host’s Hostas of course!
I was given a tour of the greenhouses by Frank who was also a member of Arche Noah! This included a collection of vanilla species…
The participants of the walk and talk. Thanks to Arche Noah’s Ursula (in front) for organising my visit!
In stark contrast to the diversity of the botanical garden, this is the next door neighbour!
