This strange flower melts anxiety away

Learn how to find, forage, and use Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata).

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Timestamps:
- 00:00 - Introducing Purple Passionflower
- 00:52 - Historical uses of passionflower
- 01:47 - The chemistry of passionflower
- 02:31 - Modern clinical studies
- 03:18 - What is passionflower? (Passiflora)
- 04:25 - How to eat passionflower vines
- 06:12 - Gathering passionflower vines
- 06:50 - Native ecology of purple passionflower
- 07:23 - Medicinal preparation of passionflower
- 08:54 - My personal experience taking passionflower
- 09:37 - Safety and dosing of passionflower
- 10:51 - Where to find passionflower
- 11:35 - When to look for passionflower
- 12:03 - What if it doesn’t grow near me?
- 13:25 - Passionflower identification and lookalikes
- 15:15 - Another herb you should know

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[FeralForaging]

I hope you feel more confident developing a relationship with Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) after watching this video! It is a truly incredible wild herb and wild fruit. (Fruit video in the works)

Remember, everything you can find exact timing details for passionflower and many other wild herbs with my Interactive Forager’s Calendar! 📅

The link is in the description and my channel bio. 👆

[rebeccasmith]

When I was a child, we called these "ballerina flowers." We plucked off all but 2 of the antennas (to make arms) and twirled them for hours while dancing ourselves . So much simple fun back then! Oh, and we would eat the fruit and spit out the seeds (at each other!)

[christypham]

Vietnamese people eat blanched leaves dipped in soy sauce or fish sauce together with white rice. Very healthy diet. We also pair it with a meat dish.

[gryphonrampant]

I have some growing on a series of trellises by my garden shed. Yes it is very, very vigorous, so I harvest wayward growing tips regularly to eat fresh, cooked, or to dry and add to soups. I highly recommend maypop and green onion added to ramen or chicken broth.

[EveEmshwiller]

I am in Wisconsin, and I am lucky that I was able to get two northern-adapted plants from Oikos Tree Crops nursery before it closed when Ken retired. They have been thriving, although the fruits haven't managed to ripen. I'm glad to know about the edible leaves, and I'll try out the tea for insomnia.

[sasacena-barruela]

I am not a forager nor will I ever be, at least for now but I’ve stumbled upon this channel and haven’t stopped watching any of his videos. It’s so informative even if the species from my country of residence is so different from that of in America, I think a lot of the information in this channel is so helpful for botany geeks. Also as someone who has an affinity to research and science behind the natural world—holistic medicine. Plus Jesse is easy on the eyes. ❤

[nbkmtour]

I am from India but you speak good English language so I like you more.

[joannadams]

I sure wish that I could find a lush, green area like that. Thank you for the great information. Very helpful. 😊

[rens]

No anxiety or overworkedness!
My not so secret is do the work i love to do, that does not feel like "work" more like passion.
Regularly cultivate nourishing activities with people, plants, animals
Focus every day for a dedicated time, 20 mins.. just stopping whatever i'm doing and feeling the sense of Self. Remembering and feeling that apart from the things i do or dont do, i simply exist on this planet.
To me this is a natural and sacred act. Vitalising!

[Gardeningchristine]

I had a maypop 🍈🍈🍈 volunteer come up this spring right next to my trellis, so I let it grow and I was very pleasantly surprised by the fruit! I didn’t even know we had a native passion fruit, much less one so pretty and delicious! They’re like a Concord grape 🍇 lemon, and pomegranate, with a pineapple bite. Love them! My new favorite fruit! And I haven’t tried the leaves yet but they sound like something I’d like. I’m so glad some random animal pooped there!

[stinkybinky]

LOVE this plant, didn’t know it had so many cool uses other than the fruit. ty for all the info ❤️

[lyssums]

Great info! I am going to start growing some. I can't believe i didn't know it was native to my region. I know friends who've had them growing in their yard but i thought they planted them. I am excited because I've been thinking it would be a challenge to grow. This video changed my perspective completely!

[anyascelticcreations]

I absolutely love this video. I would love to gather and use all the above ground parts of this plant as well as grow them someday. I didn't realize that what many people call may pop is actually the fruit from this plant. I'm very hopeful to be able to use the fruit especially someday.

I'm so appreciative of your videos. And I do plan to get your interactive Forager's guide when I can.

Thank you again and keep 'em comming! 😊 👏 🙏

[hiissh]

The leaves where they emerge from the stem is called a "node" and the distance between the node is called an "inter node".

[Hd]

That flower is one of my favorites, passion flower.

[cathysmith]

I really do enjoy your videos grew up in the Appalachian mountains, and my grandma taught us all about wild things that you can eat is very nutritious and very delicious. I was very healthy then.

[johngault]

I'm curious if there are any references that addresses the issue of cooking Greens. I've read that cooking some Greens can remove the vitamin C and boiling the leaves of Cassava removes most of the protein. For this reason I mostly eat my Greens raw, including the Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), which I have growing all over my yard.

[PlayerTenji]

I accidentally ripped these up outta my backyard in frustration. I regret it so much! I think I’ll replant it again!

[MihoshiChama]

I got a bit sad when you said "let your medicine be your food" and then later said, that you "don't drink the tea for it's flavour."
I always find, that the best way, to encourage the use of food medicine, is to make it taste good. So my thought would immediately be to combine it with something else that does taste good, to make it taste better.
My partner has a bit of a toddler palatte, so anything that doesn't appeal to him, he tends to ignore or 'forget' about, but luckily, he really enjoys chamomile, so I make a lot of herbal blends, centered around chamomile, to make them taste nice. Because I think that's such a big part of making this all make sense. I find that a lot of people have a hard time sticking to habits they find unpleasant.

[tktyga]

Glad you took the common knowledge of many usable plants usually having more than one such part. Convergent restaurants & pharmacies could well open up & it's not uncommon to have plants growing near clinics as well including medicinal ones even now