#stingingnettle — Public Fediverse posts
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another stinging nettle swaying in the breeze
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Hooray! Edible weeds volunteering themselves in my backyard. (This is stinging nettle... great as a tea, or eaten like spinach). (Updated: cropped to the stinging nettle only) #gardening #stingingnettle
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The #stingingnettle #Urtica #dioica is widespread in Eurasia and requires #nitrogenrich #soils. It is #habitat for numerous organisms, such as #caterpillars of the #peacockbutterfly. All parts are #edible and rich in #vitamins/#minerals, as well as pharma-effective. In their #review, F. Martz & S. Kankaanpää (2025) summarize knowledge about the #roots, their functioning and #biochemistry.
©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
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Martz & Kankaanpää (2025)
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14020279#Photos
©S.F. Wirth -
The #stingingnettle #Urtica #dioica is widespread in Eurasia and requires #nitrogenrich #soils. It is #habitat for numerous organisms, such as #caterpillars of the #peacockbutterfly. All parts are #edible and rich in #vitamins/#minerals, as well as pharma-effective. In their #review, F. Martz & S. Kankaanpää (2025) summarize knowledge about the #roots, their functioning and #biochemistry.
©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
Ref
Martz & Kankaanpää (2025)
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14020279#Photos
©S.F. Wirth -
The #stingingnettle #Urtica #dioica is widespread in Eurasia and requires #nitrogenrich #soils. It is #habitat for numerous organisms, such as #caterpillars of the #peacockbutterfly. All parts are #edible and rich in #vitamins/#minerals, as well as pharma-effective. In their #review, F. Martz & S. Kankaanpää (2025) summarize knowledge about the #roots, their functioning and #biochemistry.
©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
Ref
Martz & Kankaanpää (2025)
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14020279#Photos
©S.F. Wirth -
The #stingingnettle #Urtica #dioica is widespread in Eurasia and requires #nitrogenrich #soils. It is #habitat for numerous organisms, such as #caterpillars of the #peacockbutterfly. All parts are #edible and rich in #vitamins/#minerals, as well as pharma-effective. In their #review, F. Martz & S. Kankaanpää (2025) summarize knowledge about the #roots, their functioning and #biochemistry.
©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
Ref
Martz & Kankaanpää (2025)
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14020279#Photos
©S.F. Wirth -
The #stingingnettle #Urtica #dioica is widespread in Eurasia and requires #nitrogenrich #soils. It is #habitat for numerous organisms, such as #caterpillars of the #peacockbutterfly. All parts are #edible and rich in #vitamins/#minerals, as well as pharma-effective. In their #review, F. Martz & S. Kankaanpää (2025) summarize knowledge about the #roots, their functioning and #biochemistry.
©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025
Ref
Martz & Kankaanpää (2025)
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14020279#Photos
©S.F. Wirth -
Scattered stinging nettle seeds all over my yard (on purpose). So, if you're ever wandering up here in a future post apocalytic wasteland and suddenly your shins and thighs are stinging... it's all edible (cook and eat like spinach, or make it into tea).
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Til that stinging nettle is a superfood. I regularly make a delicious curry by combining it with lentils, beans or apricot kernels etc. Happy to know that it's doing a lot of good too. 😄
Nutrient information:
30% protein (dry weight),
upto 18% good fats (40% omega 3),
and is rich in micronutrients and antioxidants.
Proven health benefits:
lowers blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, osteoarthritis, allergies, and inflammation.
It has also beneficial for prostate health and hair loss (weak evidence).
#superfood #vegan #plantbased #stingingnettle #til #medicine #health #wellness -
On a whim, made #arugula *Eruca vesicaria sativa) #tea. Similar to #StingingNettle tea. Doesn't seem to be a normal use for it, but I guess it works.
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"Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last - and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind." - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.
[ID: Close-up of a stinging nettle plant in the forest, with purple stems and green leaves tinged with purple.]#stingingnettle #braidingsweetgrass #robinwallkimmerer #herbs #herbalism #ediblefoods #wildharvest #wildharvesting #foraging #permaculture #regenerativeag #lifeboatacademy #homesteading #offgrid
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* ps. not recommended, unless you enjoy welts on your arms, LOL. #StingingNettle is a LOT less mean when it's cooked.
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Lessons from this: 1. the thin nitrile gloves I have are not stinging nettle proof, 2. stinging nettle tea tastes much like spinach tea. 3. Stinging nettles also a bit astringent, like spinach. You can apparently just eat the stinging nettles like spinach, too. #StingingNettle
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"Oh, Charlotte," chided Maud, "Haven't you heard the saying, 'Not all who wander are #LOST?'"
"I beg your pardon," declared Charlotte, aghast.
"What are these #Plants if not lost? Did we not agonize over these edges? And are you really going to let the likes of #Periwinkle & #Mint tyrannize these borders?
I'd say not."Maud hid her smile. When it came to the #Garden, she was the more relaxed. But she couldn't resist playing the #StingingNettle with her sister.
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Future cup of tea growing in the #garden #stingingnettle
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Why is nettle tea SO GOOD like my brain really loves this. I just opened up my very last batch of nettle harvested from this summer and it tastes so so so good. I don't even understand. Why are stinging nettles magic.
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So TIL the plant that grew in the pot I seeded with spearmint seeds isn't actually spearmint.
It turns out it's actually stinging nettle. RIP. Found out the hard way. Tried to rub a leaf for a smell and got a sharp stabby pain in my finger. 😬
