Talk:Filipendula vulgaris

Edibility

The stalks are widely available in the Republic of Korea as a food. It is a standard ingredient in flatfish soup.Kdammers (talk) 03:56, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Are you not thinking of Chinese celery, Oenanthe javanica, which is an edible species of water dropwort? That plant is in the parsley family, and is unrelated to the subject of this article, which is dropwort, Filipendula vulgaris, in the rose family. Perhaps you could eat this dropwort, but I'm not sure if the wintergreen taste would be very nice at all... Richard New Forest (talk) 11:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

The Korean-English dictionaries I've seen here in Korea (if they have an entry) give dropwort as the translation for the plant. I'll try to get a Korean who knows the scientific name to tell me, to be sure it is the same dropwort.Kdammers (talk) 09:37, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Afaik are the roots known in Sweden to be edible (Brud Brod), no futher information on that. The closely related filipendula ulmaria is used as a traditional herbal medicine and the blossoms can be used for a sort of home made lemonade.-- 178.114.200.226 (talk) 13:01, 16 October 2010 (UTC)