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🫒 85 entries · 63 edible · 8 deadly

The plants of Mediterranean

Garrigue, maquis, pinèdes, côtes rocheuses : aromatiques, chênes verts, cactées naturalisées.

85 entries
Harmless

Alfalfa

Medicago sativa
🍽️💊🌳🫒23 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Red Clover (Trifolium pratense), also edible
Low toxicity

Aloe vera

Aloe vera
💊🍽️🏜️🫒🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Agave (ex. Agave parryi, Agave americana)
Harmless

Bay Laurel

Laurus nobilis
🍽️💊🫒313 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Oleander
Harmless

Beefsteak fungus

Fistulina hepatica
🍽️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Tender nesting polypore
Deadly

Black Henbane

Hyoscyamus niger
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible confusion at adult stage
Toxic

Black Nightshade

Solanum nigrum
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Bilberry / Blueberry (black berries)
Low toxicity

Blackthorn (sloe)

Prunus spinosa
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild cherry or escaped cultivated plum
Harmless

Caesar's mushroom

Amanita caesarea
🍽️🫒🌳
⚠️ Confusion: Fly agaric, washed-out form
Harmless

Caper bush

Capparis spinosa
🍽️🫒23 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Carob Tree

Ceratonia siliqua
🍽️🫒222 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Deadly

Castor Oil Plant

Ricinus communis
☠️🫒🌴🌍
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible look-alike
Low toxicity

Caulerpa taxifolia ("killer alga")

Caulerpa taxifolia
☠️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Other caulerpa species and edible green filamentous algae harvested by mistake in the Mediterranean
Harmless

Chickweed

Stellaria media
🍽️💊🌳🫒🍁20 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Scarlet pimpernel
Harmless

Chicory

Cichorium intybus
🍽️💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Cornflower (blue flowers as well, but completely different plant)
Harmless

Cleavers

Galium aparine
🍽️💊🪢🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicity

Clover and Daisy

Trifolium repens / pratense — Bellis perennis
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wood sorrel (false clover)
Toxic

Colocynth (bitter apple)

Citrullus colocynthis
☠️🏜️🫒🌍
⚠️ Confusion: Wild / cultivated watermelon
Toxic

Common Box

Buxus sempervirens
☠️🪓🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Privet
Low toxicity

Common Fig

Ficus carica
🍽️💊🫒74 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Common Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicity

Common Holly

Ilex aquifolium
☠️🪓💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Holly Osmanthus (False Holly, planted as ornamental)
Low toxicity

Common Juniper

Juniperus communis
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲90 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (DEADLY, red berries and not blue-black)
Harmless

Common mallow

Malva sylvestris
🍽️💊🌳🫒46 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: aucune confusion dangereuse répertoriée
Harmless

Common Myrtle

Myrtus communis
🍽️💊🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Common Nipplewort

Lapsana communis
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Common sow thistle or common groundsel at a young stage
Harmless

Common purslane

Portulaca oleracea
🍽️🫒16 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Petty spurge
Harmless

Common sow thistle (smooth sow thistle)

Sonchus oleraceus
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Prickly sow thistle (Sonchus asper), also edible
Harmless

Common thyme

Thymus vulgaris
🍽️💊🫒101 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Wild thyme
Harmless

Common Walnut

Juglans regia
🍽️💊🌳🫒654 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: American Black Walnut (introduced species, edible fruit as well but harder shell)
Harmless

Cork Oak

Quercus suber
🍽️🪓🏕️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Holm Oak
Harmless

Dandelion

Taraxacum officinale
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️45 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Hawkweeds and sowthistles
Deadly

Datura (Jimsonweed)

Datura stramonium
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: No frequent wild food confusion
Deadly

Deadly Nightshade

Atropa belladonna
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Bilberry / Wild Blueberry
Harmless

Dog rose

Rosa canina
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️162 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicity

Elderberry

Sambucus nigra
🍽️💊🌳🫒73 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Dwarf elder (herbaceous, not to be confused)
Deadly

English Yew

Taxus baccata
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Silver Fir
Harmless

European Hop-Hornbeam / Mediterranean Hackberry

Celtis australis
🍽️🪓🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Field Elm
Harmless

Fairy ring mushroom

Marasmius oreades
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly white Clitocybes (including the fool's funnel)
Harmless

Fat-hen

Chenopodium album
🍽️🌳🫒🍁43 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Fig-leaved goosefoot / other goosefoots
Harmless

Field mushroom

Agaricus campestris
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Destroying angel
Toxic

Giant Fennel

Ferula communis
☠️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Fennel
Deadly

Hemlock water-dropwort

Oenanthe crocata
☠️🌳🫒🐚
⚠️ Confusion: Wild parsnip or wild celery
Low toxicity

Holm Oak

Quercus ilex
🍽️🫒387 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Cork Oak
Harmless

Mastic tree

Pistacia lentiscus
🍽️💊🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Terebinth
Low toxicity

Oak (pedunculate and sessile)

Quercus robur / Quercus petraea
🍽️💊🌳🫒387 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion (acorns are unambiguously identifiable)
Deadly

Oleander

Nerium oleander
☠️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Bay laurel (edible)
Harmless

Parasol Mushroom

Macrolepiota procera
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Small brown lepiotas (deadly dapperling and related species)
Toxic

Pennyroyal

Mentha pulegium
☠️💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Water mint or other mints edible in moderation
Harmless

Plantain (ribwort and broadleaf)

Plantago lanceolata / Plantago major
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Deadly

Poison hemlock

Conium maculatum
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Wild chervil / cow parsley
Harmless

Poplar fieldcap

Cyclocybe aegerita
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Destructive pholiota
Harmless

Porcini Mushroom

Boletus edulis
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Satan's Bolete
Harmless

Prickly Pear

Opuntia ficus-indica
🍽️🏜️🫒16 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Prickly saltwort (Russian thistle)

Salsola kali
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous toxic look-alikes
Harmless

Rock samphire (sea fennel)

Crithmum maritimum
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Other coastal Apiaceae, some of which are toxic (e.g., hemlock water-dropwort in nearby wet areas)
Harmless

Rosemary

Salvia rosmarinus (syn. Rosmarinus officinalis)
🍽️💊🫒131 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Tree heath
Harmless

Saffron milkcap

Lactarius deliciosus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Woolly milkcap
Toxic

Satan's Bolete

Rubroboletus satanas
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Edible red-pored boletes (scarletina bolete cooked, etc.)
Harmless

Sea beet (Wild chard)

Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Sea lavender (statice)

Limonium vulgare
🍽️💊🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Sea aster
Harmless

Sea purslane

Halimione portulacoides
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Pedunculate sea-purslane (rare)
Harmless

Sea rocket

Cakile maritima
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Sea kale
Toxic

Sea Spurge

Euphorbia paralias
☠️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Sea Sandwort (edible)
Toxic

Sea squill

Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima)
☠️🫒
Harmless

Service tree (corm)

Sorbus domestica
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Rowan / Mountain ash, also edible (after bletting/cooking)
Harmless

Shaggy mane

Coprinus comatus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Common ink cap
Harmless

Shepherd's purse

Capsella bursa-pastoris
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no notable dangerous confusion
Harmless

Slender Gracilaria

Gracilaria gracilis
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Other filamentous red seaweeds
Harmless

Spear Thistle (Bull Thistle)

Cirsium vulgare
🍽️🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Low toxicity

St. John's Wort

Hypericum perforatum
💊☠️🌳🫒🏔️
Low toxicity

Stinging Nettle

Urtica dioica
🍽️💊🪢🌳🫒🏔️42 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: White dead-nettle (non-stinging)
Toxic

Stinking hellebore

Helleborus foetidus
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible confusion
Harmless

Strawberry tree

Arbutus unedo
🍽️🫒65 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Toxic

Sun spurge

Euphorbia helioscopia
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Various non-laticiferous young vegetable shoots
Harmless

Sweet Chestnut

Castanea sativa
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️245 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Horse Chestnut
Harmless

Sweet Violet

Viola odorata
🍽️💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Early Dog-violet (scentless)
Harmless

Wakame

Undaria pinnatifida
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Oarweed / Kelp (kombu)
Toxic

White Bryony

Bryonia dioica
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Grapevine (foliage)
Harmless

White Mulberry

Morus alba
🍽️🪢🪓🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Paper Mulberry
Low toxicity

Wild asparagus

Asparagus acutifolius
🍽️🫒20 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Garden asparagus escaped from cultivation
Harmless

Wild Carrot

Daucus carota
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Poison Hemlock (DEADLY)
Harmless

Wild fennel

Foeniculum vulgare
🍽️💊🫒31 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Giant fennel
Harmless

Wild Oregano (Wild Marjoram)

Origanum vulgare
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild mint or calamint (similar scents, but aromatic and edible as well)
Low toxicity

Wild parsnip

Pastinaca sativa
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: no deadly confusion recorded thanks to the yellow color of the umbel, which is rare among toxic European Apiaceae
Harmless

Wild Thyme

Thymus serpyllum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Common thyme