Can You Eat Morning Glory Leaves
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Can you eat morning glory leaves. Maybe you can make tea out of the leaves or something. In asia ipomoea aquatica is popular as a green vegetable. The american morning glory that comes to mind when we think of the name is a climber with heart shaped leaves and lots of trumpet shaped flowers not a plant that looks more similar to spinach with narrower leaves. On jul 8 2017.
Looks like slugs have visited you. I have heard speculation online that the leaves and flowers contain a small amount of lsa but i don t know if this is true. In the states ipomoea aquatica is classed as a noxious weed and a permit is needed to possess it although it is. Those that do offer stir fried morning glory thai style tend to serve inauthentic toned down versions of this vibrant dish.
So you see eating morning glory leaves that are grown in america can be a completely different thing. The leaves of my morning glory vines are riddled with holes. The leaf miner drills tunnels into the leaves of the plant. It draws them into the beer and they drown.
Morning glories are in season blooming early in the day and in the evening. Fortunately eating morning glory flowers is not dangerous unless the child chokes. Fortunately morning glories are so vigorous that the damage may be unsightly but not harmful to the plants. A green caterpillar called a leafcutter feeds at night and severs the stem of the morning glory and a golden tortoise beetle makes small to medium holes in the foliage.
There are also morning glories that are not ipomoeas and they have cyanide in their leaves. It s also sadly missing from the majority of western thai restaurant and takeaway menus. See 1 previous. Identifying it as a morning glory is not enough.
Fortunately yes as it is a very common weed in large parts of the world. Several different insects can cause the damage you describe. They contain a chemical similar to lsd. What is eating the leaves.
You need to know which species it is. In addition to morning glory vines and sweet potato leaves you can spray the neem bliss solution on any flowering plants and edibles in your garden such as apple trees peanut plants and cucumber vines up to the day of harvest. What is eating holes in my morning glory leaves. What can i do.
Can you dry the leaves and smoke them. Incidentally some have edible roots as well. I haven t seen any insects. I use covers filled with beer.
There are also insects that like to eat through the leaves and stem of the morning glory. Pad pak boong fai daeng or stir fried morning glory is one of the tastiest dishes you can eat in thailand. I ask because some ipomoea have edible leaves some have toxic leaves some have leaves you can eat a few of.