'foraged' from an unsuspecting black sheep.

will do.

I've spent a few months identifying limes in my area (Scotland) and I want to try making Linden tea with the flowers but not many of them seem to show signs of flowering yet. Don't know if it's because I'm so far north and the flowers are yet to come out or if they only flower in certain years.

Sorry, that is a common mistake of mine.. :( I'm trying to stop it but the word family just keeps popping out!

​@@WildFoodUK1 Eh, no worries ... I understood what you meant, just thought it might be worth clarifying .. Thanks for the clip, good stuff.

If it's protected I'd find a different one, they are very common, just look out for the sucker growth around the base of the tree.

I've actually seen this on some trees but didn't have the guts to try it. It is apparently a type of sugar, so it would liven up my sauerkraut.. :)

it's ok for food; you can dry the leaves and grind them into some sort of flour to bulk up usual flour you use. I also munch the young leaves on the heavily renewal-pruned Linden on my allotment. Nice to have a wild food that doesn't taste eyewateringly strong! 🌳🕊💚

Sorry, I've never tried brewing it but would love to know how it goes for you.

I don't need help brewing, I'm asking if the linden tree fruit is edible as nobody seems to know..

@@derekfrost8991 yes it is

look up linden chocolate; yes the fruits are fine to eat (but you probably found that in the mean time) 🌳🕊💚

I ate a few and am still alive but they were unpleasant. I was trying to make a mixture of the leaves with fruit and seed of different ripeness mashed together as they are said to taste like chocolate, but I did not taste any hint of chocolate. I have American Linden, maybe Bristish Linden tastes of the chocolate as the plant books who said that worked came from Europe.

@@Skitdora2010 haha alright, thanks

@@Skitdora2010 here in uk a friend of mine made this linden chocolate and didn't get the 'chocolate' bit either. but maybe we shouldn't try to compare what Linden has to offer with imported foods; we might find something to appreciate in our native offerings? 🌳🕊💚

It is a linden tree. In English they are also called limes but it comes from a translation error. He is talking about the tilia family which has nothing to do with citrus fruit.. :)

For the cordata and vulgaris look for the sucker base at the growth, the platyphyllos rarely has that so you need to be able to recognise the heart shaped leaves for ID. ;)

Interesting :) the leave do have fibre and a nice texture so it is worth eating.

Since you appear to be a French speaker, you might not know that in England the correct common name for the Tilia species is "lime" (see the Royal Horticultural Society). This chap is clearly English and in the UK.

@@richardcjay I'm English and I speak 4 languages and I know all about it. The original translation of lime was an error that has stuck. You can read all about it on Wikipedia. I don't mind the use of 'lime' in non-botanical circles. For example all my French friends think that that's the correct English word. But if you want to teach it on KZfaq you should do better. The Tilia species is unrelated to citrus so it's not really lime, is it?

​@@derekfrost8991 The point of the video seems to me to be about encouraging non-botanical English people to go outside and identify wild food. I will admit that when I started growing citrus ten years ago, the point that you are making did cross my mind. I was studying Biomedicine at the time and when we worked with organisms we used the Latin name - so I decided that it was a moot point. If you want to have a actual botanical discussion about a plant you should use the Latin name. If you want the general public to understand you, it is most appropriate to use the most common name of that plant (in this case lime). This is the approach taken by BBC's Gardeners Question Time and Royal Horticultural Society and these organisations also add in the Latin name. I would have to agree with your French friends I am afraid, the universally acknowledged (in England) common name for "Tilia" is "lime" - it has, as you say, stuck. The common name is just that, the name that is in common usage, regardless of the etymological history of the word. You appear to be teaching your French friends American English, to which I do not object. But in terms of the video, how many Americans vs English folk might try their hand at foraging wild food in the UK using Wild Food UK's instructions? The common names vs Latin names is Citrus is fascinating (see the most interesting Yuzu "Lemon") the common name of citrus Limes, is lime. Again this is just what we commonly call it and it is not a formal botanical classification. I honestly do not understand why you suggest that the English change their common usage to achieve some middle ground of classification formality. Calling a Tilia a lime tree is just part our English history and language.

@@richardcjay that's not at all what I said. The simple common name is linden. I only mentioned tilia as the botanical name, which it is.

@@derekfrost8991 I imagine that I would very much enjoy this discussion with beer in a pub 🙂

how do you make chocolate from linden berries?

@@nataliedyck8312 young seed pods roasted, ground up and sweetened I think!

pronunciation is the hard part as I've only ever read most of them... I'm sure botanists and mycologists cringe a bit at how I pronounce some of em...

why use bad language to ask a question!!!? NOT GOOD

Coz i fkn want to and it feels good to me.

Not to my knowledge.

The American Tilia species can do, not the native ones though