Eating Orchids (Dendrobium)

[tocarmar]

All orchid flowers are edible. But you do have to be careful where they are bought.
My local grocery store carries the dendros for eating!!! I don't go out of my way for them, the ones that I flower here after dried I give to the hermit crabs & they love them..

 

[paphioboy]

I don't know about dendrobiums, but extrafloral nectar in general is nice though. I like to eat it from my cymbidium in the office, have to do it when no-one is looking though, so they don't think I'm weird...

Weirdo flower licker alert! :crazy:

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

All orchids are edible....even Oncidium cebolleta? At least you'll enjoy eating them!

 

[Lanmark]

All orchids are edible....even Oncidium cebolleta? At least you'll enjoy eating them!

Psychoactive? :crazy:

 

[Kavanaru]

Psychoactive? :crazy:

but edible! oke:

(if I would have known that when I was a teenager, probably they wouldn't have been that many of them growing on the trees at our farm :evil

 

[Marco]

All orchid flowers are edible.

How about bulbo. phalaenopsis ?? oke:

I would pay to see to someone give that flower a nibble.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

O. ceboleta is supposed to be hallucinogenic. And I gave mine away..............(Then again, I have 2 4' high Trichocereus pacahanoi cacti!)

 

[Pete]

Don't you think it is too dangerous to eat?
You can imagine how much pesticide has been used.

garunteed! i always think that! i hate getting dendrobium flowers as garnishs on my plate (as they do it all the time here)... i know what goes into growing those cut flower dendros and its a hell of a lot of fungicide and insecticide. and no amount of gentle rinsing of the flowers makes me even want them on my plate.

 

[valenzino]

I tried this once:
D.purpureum,in right conditions can produce heavy ammount of extrafloral nectar.Once I have an alba one in flower.The flowers were fuuul of nectar all around.I cutted the spike,poured the whole spike with flour and little bit salt,and fried them...result was a veeery nice "frittella" like ball with a contrasting "bitter sweet" taste.I still alive and have digested them very fast...obviously were grown really bio...I nearly never use chemicals.

 

[NYEric]

"Better living through Chemistry" - Dupont :evil: