The Elder Tree - Food, Medicine & Mythology🌳Wild Edible Foraging & Identification

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[@EldersTree]

Seeing your show from Pakistan

[@carolehugo5816]

My late grandmother always had elderberry or elderflower wine for ailments and we were rarely sick.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

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[@MellovesYah]

I planted atleast 7 Elder bushes last around my back garden and this year we are being blessed with an abundance of berries!! Such an amazing gift. Thank you so much for your videos. ❤

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

It's such an incredible tree that grows so fast!

[@kirkbrown8189]

Strongly recommend making elder flower wine and elderberry wine. Both are very good.

[@RuinedObelisk]

Elder flute, do do do doo dooo 🤣🎶

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

In my head I thought shall I carve a flute... Nah air flute will do 🤣

[@HeidiLynButterfly]

That was my favorite! 😁😆🥰

[@aidanday1000]

I saw in a book about a type of fungi that usually grows on dead elder trees; the same book told about the mythology and about thanking the elder mother/witch from anything you take from it. Thanks for this more in depth video.

[@gaz8891]

Yes, the fungus is called Jew's Ear or Jelly Ear. It's a pretty nice fungus, looking just like brown ears (in shape and with the edge of the lobes curved over, like on ears) sticking out of the dead branch. It seems to be most common in March.

[@BeverleyW]

This is beautiful thank you .. loved hearing the birds in the background. I must go and pick some elderflowers this afternoon 🌸🌳

[@EccentricNature]

Awesome. Love hearing all the facts and folklore. I had thought about doing an elder tree video early on when I started my channel but ended up going into other herbs instead. :)

[@kicunya12]

Love your enthusiasm and air of calmness of the videos. Wanted to add some info: 1. Unripen berries are poisonous, so best to wait until all of them are nice deep color, before picking and discard any greenish ones. 2. One of the best combinations made in nature is apples and elderberries: compotes, jams, preserves or a pie fillings. 3. Elderberry wine and mead - need I say more?

[@daArt708]

I bit a purple one and it was so bitter...mine is not a tree like this one it's a tall bush..I'm trying to learn about these trees and if what I have is an elderberry tree/bush🤔

[@gaz8891]

@@daArt708 There's only one species of elder in Britain, and they grow as tall bushes or small shrubby trees. It's up to you whether you want to call it a bush or a tree!

[@fitzyfitzpatrick9229]

Beautiful video x

[@chrishorgan]

I love your enthusiasm! Thanks for all of your videos guys, I always learn something interesting.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thank you for taking the time to watch too 😁

[@gabrielbigelow6023]

I just like how the elder flower taste like “frothy elderflower” heck yeah 🤣

[@mirian593]

You are so full of life, beautiful to see your vídeos. Thank you for keeping posting. Miriã

[@marcharrison9847]

So enthusiastic!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Cheers!

[@HeidiLynButterfly]

This was such a delight to watch. 🥰I learned a lot! Thank you! 🦋

[@ruthsmith2367]

I made elder flower Champaign a couple of years back. I wasn’t that keen to be honest but hubby did. I might try a hot tea, thank you ❤️

[@hotelsierra86]

I will take you to fair Elfland…for well or woe as chance may be

[@Strickredmusic]

Nice 💯

[@gaz8891]

This is great! But I'm not convinced that Elder comes from 'aeld' meaning fire in Anglo-Saxon (what's the evidence for this ?). The Anglo-Saxons left us a large number of legal property documents (charters), which give us their names for trees. These were made by people walking around the perimeter of a property and describing the boundary features, such as trees. They date from about 900AD. In these, they used 'ellerbeam' and 'elebeam' for elder, where 'beam' would mean 'tree' in German ('baum' today). I wonder if 'der' is just a common ending meaning 'tree', and maybe 'el' just means 'the' (like in Italian). There's also the Alder tree, a totally different tree to Elder. Also the Maple tree was once called the Mapleder, again the 'der' ending.

[@gaz8891]

Hmm, comments on another site (Elder - the devil's tree) agree and disagree. A comment by Erikur17 says, "There is no Old English word eldr 'fire'; that is an Old Norse word and has nothing to do with elder the tree; like alder (from OE alor)." But Danniseliger5172 says, "Elder is a preferred wood for making firesticks to produce fire by hand (or bow) drilling. Drilling turns the pith into coal dust. I think this is a more likely explanation for the aeld (or ild - as it is called here in Denmark) origin of the treename. "

[@Growyourowninacourtyard]

I’ve only just found your channel and I love it! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Xx

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thanks for watching & love your name! 😁

[@yvemarybmusic]

So grateful and love that have found your KZbin page x Thankyou

[@ShadowMaticplays]

You really got a passion for plants and learning folk lore etc😊 mate just that keeps me coming back🙃🙃...some dont seem as happy as you wen they making similar videos they seem like they have to do it not want to do it

[@belindabell794]

I love your videos. Amazing. I’ll be foraging for elderflower asap.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

It's one of the best 😁

[@SKOLAH]

Your enthusiasm for the gorgeous Elder is lovely to see. 🙂 I grow them in my garden. Making a kind of foresty bit with them.

[@cheezheadz3928]

He's like that about all plants! 😉

[@lazulimoon1970]

Awesome mood, extremily positive. Veri nice video. Now I know it is an Anglo Saxon word meaning fire, nothing to do with old or aged or two legged elders. 😅

[@amberbo7014]

🔥 🔥 🔥 FIRE TREE 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@NowGardening]

Great video. Our flowers are nearly all gone here in southern France, but I'm looking forward to picking the berries later on. I hope you have favorite recipe for those that you'll be sharing with us :)

[@stevenothanks7379]

You certainly didn't enjoy that tea - lol - cheers.

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@whereandbackagain7059]

I love your knowledge and enthusiasm. Thanks for this!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thank you for watching 😁

[@seansmart2756]

Awesome! So informative and excellently presented. I love how involved you guys are and learning about our lost folklore!

[@stoneagesteve5395]

What a great ambassador for such a great tree, Diolch yn fawr :)

[@hriwrmi]

👍

[@hugoharrison]

Such a wicked video! I absolutely love trees - especially Elders - and I am so glad you are just as passionate! I learnt so much.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

A am glad to have you here too my friend!

[@BrigidMcGeehan]

How do you make lilac syrup! I love your videos 😊

[@donwright3427]

Scrunch the leaves up to deter flies

[@meghandurante3251]

I would love to see you do a video about Alder trees as well. Alder and Elder are very close in name, but what are the differences between them?

[@gaz8891]

They are very different and not related. Elder is a shrub with leaflets and white, clustered flowers that turn into tiny berries. The alder is a tallish tree with roundish leaves (the UK one is, other species can have oval, pointed leaves), catkins that are wind-pollinated and the seeds are produced in small woody cones. I'm not sure about the explanation that elder comes from 'aeld' meaning fire. I rather think that perhaps 'der' is a common ending meaning 'tree', but I could be wrong.

[@Herbsandspices-p4f]

We have several elder trees, but I never know what to do with the beautiful flowers and the berries. Any ideas?

[@sarahhl4255]

You can make elder flower drinks and elderberry wine or jam. Elderberry berry is also a medicine, so you can make a cough and cold syrup.

[@crazyjane6570]

Plans for today…..go foraging with my 22yr old daughter & hopefully educate her on the subject! Xx❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@hotelsierra86]

We will go to fair Elfland for well or woe as chance may be.

[@theresazelazny7445]

I love your videos. Would you mind holding your camera still a little longer when you are focusing on features such as leaves, bark, flowers, etc. It helps in being able to identify it where ever we live, and for comparing cultivars. Thanks.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Noted! 😁

[@cheezheadz3928]

Why would you use a KZbin video for that with all of the detailed photos and illustrations online? Photos that are always accessible.

[@victoriadoughty1850]

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[@darrelllee6792]

PLEASE , do a part 2 on the cautions of elder berry and the difference between red and blue elder. Is the paulion toxic on the red ? Can the red be used like the blue ? Please , if the paulion is dangerous from red can it poison you from landing on other plants ,like if hemlock paulioned landed on near by eatables ? From my understanding the red elder is more dangerous. But I don't know much about it having hard time finding info on the subject thanx !

[@cheezheadz3928]

All of those answers are out there for your access. Research, research, and research more! 🙏

[@gaz8891]

I think he's based in the UK, and we only have the one elder species, not the red or blue elder.

[@mirian593]

Do you drink all the bugs to lol? I tend to get so much bugs when picking those elderflower.

[@snipeweedan]

Is it ok to drink elderberry with what appears to be a mother growing in the bottom of the bottle?

[@RaysRailVideos]

None are in flower yet in the north east