Sanguisorba Minor is the new name for Poterium Sanguisorba aka Burnet, Adrienne Floreen's new plant!

Sanguisorba Minor is the "new name" for Poterium Sanguisorba as I found out after uploading this video when I decided it would be easier to copy and paste the species name from a website than type it and have the spell checker repeatedly try to decide what word I am attempting to type and change it. My children's salad turned into a reading and botany lesson when I decided to read old recipes from the Joy of Cooking instead of a children's book while eating a cucumber salad. Pretty soon everyone was repeating Poterium Sanguisorba over and over because that is what the tag said and everyone tried a piece of cucumber garnished with salad burnet leaves. I normally Google plants before making videos about them but because I am familiar with this one I did not which is why I did not know they had changed/updated the species name but apparently it's still sold under the old name and if you Google the old name you will get the Wikipedia page with the newer name. Regardless, the stuff tastes like cucumbers and has tiny leaves and if you used a little bit to garnish sushi or sashimi or a plate or sliced cucumbers or something your houseguests would hopefully think you were a master chef and ask what the secret spice was. Especially if you set down a plate of sashimi and right as everyone reaches for it say "NO! Wait! I must garnish it or it will not taste right!" and then use a tweezer to carefully put one leaf on each piece or something then proclaim "order up" or "dig in" or whatever your catch phrase is. During the first coronavirus lockdown that was supposed to last two weeks some vegetarian friends came to visit and I offered to put some Prostrate Knotweed (Polygonum Aviculare) on their veggie burgers. The stares on their faces answered the question; I immediately was clearly aware I had said something that made me appear "weird." It is the one on the bottom of the paper towel in my video. You can use the Cleaver (Galium Aparine) leaves in cooking only; do not do what another YouTuber did in an "eat the weeds video" and attempt to eat one raw, only to realize that the person who invented velcro was inspired to do so by this plant's ability to adhere to your clothes (and your throat when raw) like velcro. You do not want to be the "plant expert" who tells the whole class you can eat this, then eats "the velcro plant," but I can not re-tell this story without laughing and the video the guy made is still out there somewhere on YouTube. The Plantain leaf variety in my video is not the one that grows as a weed but the "Giant Turkish" variety they sell seeds for online although it is Plantago Major and technically the same species, think of the difference between a cherry tomato and a normal tomato, it is a cultivar bred for big leaves. I have the wild/weed variety of the Plant too but I use the big leaves because they are convenient and thicker, more like kale than lettuce. I have been killing my lawn and eating the weeds for years before this became an online "thing" or "trend" or "whatever." Please educate yourself about plants you do not know about yet and eat them. Even if it's just a leaf that will make your sushi have a pretty garnish!

This video was filmed on August 2nd, 2023, at 3:28 p.m. at Adrienne Floreen's House in Humboldt County, California