The Blackthorn Tree: Wild Food, Facts, Uses & Folklore 🌲🌸🍇
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2021
- The Blackthorn Tree is an incredible tree it can grow to around 7 metres tall & live for 100 years! The older it gets the darker the bark goes until ultimately the tree becomes dark black earing it's name "Blackthorn"
It's Latin name is prunus spinosa & it's apart of the Rosaceae making this tree related to the beautiful rose flower 🌹
🐝 Its one of the first tree's to bloom in spring making it a great source of nectar for bee's & butterfly's the Blackthorn supports all walks of wildlife throughout the year.
🌸 The flower blossoms are edible too being used to flavour things like syrups or decorating cakes they have a delicious almomdy flavour BUT moderation is key & you shouldn't consume too many no more than a tea spoon.
🍇After its flowers comes to sloe berries from around September to December famous for being made into sloe gin. These berries are rich in vitamin C The sloe berries are a bitter tonic, stimulating the metabolism and cleaning the blood. The leaves can be dried & used as a tea alternative or can even be used as a green dye.
☠️The Blackthorn can live up to the dark mythology & Folklore that surrounds the tree. If you get injured by the thorn of the Blackthorn you can get blackthorn poisoning. Blackthorn poisoning can cause severe infections , blood poisoning, swelling and joint pain. If left too long before treatment, even amputation might be the result.
In Christianity it's believed that in you worship the devil he'll appear & prick his worshippers finger with the thorn of the Blackthorn 😈
All in all the Blackthorn is a beautiful tree supporting wildlife all year long with food & shelter plus its rich in history & Folklore too.
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I wouldn't have thought that I'd be so fascinated by a video on blackthorn. Wow, I felt like I was listening to my late grandfather. Absolutely marvelous storytelling.
I love my blackthorn- I have fields of it. People around me give me grief because of its thorn punctures car tyres and can give you septicaemia. Your video has lifted my heart- thankyou. The flowers are beautiful. I have an ancestor - she was burnt at the the stake- a full cycle- good prevails as you said.
I'm so excited about watching this video, I doubt I've ever found a whole video on this plant! I love how you show the collecting methods, you explain the edible and medicinal uses and I love the folklore touch!!!
Absolutely lovely video!!
Your enthusiasm is wholesome 🌸🌳
Great information and very interesting uses for blackthorn as wild edibles. 💯❤👍
I love my blackthorn bushes thanks for the vid!
What a great video really enjoyed it cheers.
Cheers!
really wholesome video
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I was nibbling a few blossoms on my walk xxx
Wow! I need to get me a blackthorn broomstick! :)
Worked a treat 😁
awesome video friend
I love your energy, enthusiasm & the content. More of it, please. Much Blessings of Grandmother Earth 🌟
We've many videos on our channel 😁
Love love love this video...gebuine love for the Blackthorn 😍
Thsnk you 😁
Thanks good information
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Very informative again. Keep up the good work
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Loved this! Learned so much, I’m trying to adapt the English hedgerow concept for my small suburban permaculture garden and I’m planning on planting the Native American plum on my border! Loved learning about blackthorn’s witchy history too
Excellent presenter & excellent video. Well done all.
Thsnk you 😁
Thank you for this video. I thought for years I had Hawthorne and instead I have blackthorn.
Awesome video. The Blackthorn tree was an Ogham of the Druids as well, one of the most ancient alphabets. (Both Eastern and Western religions of antiquities, acknowledge that wisdom/learning and trees had direct associations... Trees are the silent witnesses), Not only was Blackthorn an Ogham 'Runic' letter, but it carried symbologies. An prominent symboligy of antiquity concerning Blackthorn literally was Surgery. So now I know it was as literal as it was figurative. lol
BLackthorn was probably the cardinal, negative Ogham. But seeing as how everything was understood in cycles in antiquity (namely of the Druids), the severance of something might be necessary in someone's life, especially where something new might be concerned... it is probably the most dismal letter though with next to no obvious, positive associations. lol Also, the Irish Shillelagh was a Blackthorn branch and you can still buy them!
Another interesting point off of what you taught, was about Hawthornes. Hawthornes carried the symbology of marriage... thus Blackthorne being it's diametric opposite in lore, would mean a divorce (severance).
The Oak and the Holly were two trees at war as well, every year. The half of the year where the sun was strong was the time of the Oak King. The Holly King ruled in the half that was dark. Holly also had associations with clubs or weapons. (Oak would be Spring and Summer, relatively... Holly, Fall and Winter).
Another interesting and very unique, ancient observance of Blackthorn, is that when everything else sheds and dies, it starts to fruit, as you mentioned. It's one of the only trees that is producing when everything else is withering. That made it a tree of reverence as well I believe... Evergreens carried the symbol of 'eternal life' like snakes did, that shed their skins, or the phoenix bird. Evergreens don't ever seem to 'die' at any point in the year, thus they had that reverence.
That's so much info that I didn't know about the Blackthorn tree. Made wine from the berries many times.
Thank you for showing us all again.
Your welcome 😁
Amazing, you're a good story teller or a Seannacaí (shan-ah-key) in Irish, my godfather was a seannacaí of North County Dublin known as Fingal, lol they each had blackthorn walking sticks 😁💜
Lovely video as ever, I really appreciate the zoom out over the black thorn trees ! Thank you for the excellent edu-tainment and for the respect you promote for nature, you guys are excellent guides 💚
Such a good video 💯👍
New sloes video being uploaded today 😁
@@homeiswhereourheartis il be sure to check that out, I've just gathered a bunch this morning plus some cleaver seeds to try the coffee you taught about.
Thanks, great stuff
Cheers!
Brilliant
The Prunus family is also Cherry.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
The cherry tree has the best fruit!
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One of the best ❤️
Another great video. Love the addition of the drone! Will be decorating daughters birthday cake this week with some blossom 😋 x
Makes for the best cakes!
Wow, what a beautiful idea 💡 😍 👏
Really interesting video! We recently bought some land (we lived in Umbria, Italy) and it's completely overrun with spiky blackthorn. The tiny saplings spread everywhere by runners and are a nightmare when the kids want to run around. Good to hear about the fight between blackthorn and hawthorn though!!
Thank you. Loved the ending. Love your kindness and thoughtfulness towards our fellow Earthlings. I have a blackthorn walking staff that I bought for my grandma in the 80's and she left it to me when she passed. I use it on walks all the time. Adding your channel to my fav's.
Thank you Deb 😁
Got a new video all about sloes ready for tomorrow ✌️🙂
@@homeiswhereourheartis thanks. it is awesome and getting your beautiful book, too. Blessings ~
another great video thank you
Great video much love xoxox
Cheers 😁
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Absolutely brilliant....as usual 🌺
Thanks for the upload! 😊
Another brilliant video, thank you. We happened to find those berries by accident the other week - I thought they were gooseberries 🤣 regardless, I've frozen them and not done anything with them yet 🤔
It makes me sad you videos are not more well known, I've just discovered them and they are amazing! I'm from Eastern Europe but live in England UK now, I love your videos and I wish more people could benefit from watching them!!!
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Love it
Cheers 😁
Great video. Really enjoyed it.
Glad to hear it 😁
Thank you 🙌
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Great video 👏 and really interesting about the blackthorn and the hawthorn, where I live there are blackthorn intertwined with hawthorn all amongst the hedgerows.
Just found you! Getting into the alternative way of living. You have great energy. Please do more on foraging😊
We've lots of foraging videos 😁
@@homeiswhereourheartis I haven't had a chance to have a really good look through....I guess what I'm trying to say is don't stop🥰 Such a beautiful family. You make me so happy watching you.
Very nice:) I have a blackthorn staff and wand. In East Anglian (and I guess most witchcraft) lore the blackthorn rod is a "blasting rod" for directing malefica but is also defensive as well against malefica. Blackthorn staffs are heavy and this is why they make good self defence weapons. The Irish shillelagh is made of blackthorn for this reason. With regard to the sloe, I may be wrong but I think that in Ray Mears' Wild Food series that he did with Prof.Gordon Hillman the paleobotanist they found out that once the berry was bletted it was entirely edible as the sugars had been released. Maybe you have come across this? Ive yet to try myself!
Sorry, what is bletted? I know they become edible after the first frost, some people forage them before and freeze them. Normally they are used for gin but they can be used in jams and preserves or syrups too
collect the berries, store one year and then sow for new plants = plant out in patches and ygrow to protect oak and other trees from deer and sheep
I've never seen a whole tree before, only shrubs in the wild or as decorations in parks
Hi, how can i grow the plant from the berries/seeds?
what would need to be done or given if pricked and a hospital is not an option? Curious and will continue researching. mentioning in the Comment section in case anyone already knows the solution. Thank-you!
Hugh fan of the walking sticks , & own 2 , made in Ireland by top maker's !!! folks check out Francis McCaffrey , McCaffrey Crafts !!!
My sister had two spikes in her back, they were 4" long, she was getting ready for bed and I spotted two black marks on her back, she couldn't even feel them. I managed to get both of them out, God knows what would have happened if I hadn't spotted them.
Good thing to get the out!
Jealous of your neighbor hood!!!
We've just moved here it's beautiful 😁
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