I bought some dried day lily blossoms at the oriental store. I didn't think the flavor was either good or bad. I'd read that eating them in quantity for an extended period can be bad for the eyes. Later, I got access to fresh ones any time I wanted to pick them. They tasted slightly better when cooked, but I dried most of them and doled them out occasionally to my guinea pigs, which seemed to like them.
In the community garden, a man from Kenya eats Black Nightshade leaves. He doesn't cultivate them; just refrains from weeding them out. But there's a 2nd type of nightshade with black berries that also grows as a weed in the garden, and he doesn't eat that one. He can tell the difference - I can't...except that the flea beetles seem to prefer the leaves of the plant that he doesn't eat.
He also eats green bean leaves instead of pods. Apparently, that custom only developed among a certain portion of Africans. He just uses the plain old snap beans you can buy at the store.
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