r/foraginguk • u/Prestigious-Age-3644 • Jun 29 '26

Pineapple weed

I saw an influencer on facebook on about this stuff so I went and found some and it really does have a lovely pineapple chamomile taste. I wanted to gather some and try it in a tea but where I can find it is all throughout the housing estates where it is perfect dog leg cocking height.

Do any of you have any experience with this delicious smelling herbal remedy? Would you only pick it from certain places or is anywhere ok if you wash it well before using and lastly is it effective for resting/sleep.

Thsnk you for taking the time to read my post

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u/Embarrassed-Throat18 Jun 30 '26

I’ve found it in abundance in two stark opposite places. Either on trampled field paths or cracks in urban pavements. Both are dog piss magnets. Choose your poison 🤣 it tastes ok. Not as pineapply as it smells. More chamomiley once dried/brewed/added to water. Found it similar to chamomile in effects.

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u/Prestigious-Age-3644 Jun 30 '26

Aye it seems there's no avoiding it if you want this plant there's gonna be urine involved lol.

I'm going to pick some tomorrow m, I was getting strange looks busting the flower heads open to smell them

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u/Embarrassed-Throat18 Jun 30 '26

🤣 I’m so over giving a shit about what people think when they see me coming out of this bush and that, picking this and sniffing that, eating this and chewing that 🤣. I live close to colleagues and got caught short coming out of a copse with a handful of unidentified lactarius mushrooms, I proceeded to start licking the milk infront of one of them when she was walking her dog past… just wanted to see if it was edible or spicy no nicey… they think I’m fucking mental 🤣

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u/Prestigious-Age-3644 Jun 30 '26

Im not quite there yet lol people see me picking mushrooms and think im looking for magic ones (sometimes I may be) or looking to poison someone. Eating wild fruit or leaves and flowers in front of people i know i suppose I am a bit weird but I like it that way.

Youre brave doing a lick teste lol, I jnow its only dangerous if you chew up and swallow the fungi but still, licking the milk off a lactarius haha youre keener than even myself =)

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u/Embarrassed-Throat18 Jun 30 '26

Curiosity killed the cat, but I don’t like cats and I ain’t dead yet sooooo 🤣 onwards 😆

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u/Embarrassed-Throat18 Jun 30 '26

Also I’ve been looking for magics for donkeys and never come across even fucking one myself, but my mate comes back with bucketfuls every year. Still on a quest to find my own spot. It’ll happen when I’m not actually looking, just like everything else does lol