Found these in my hill, what are they?

[secuono]

I found some half inch to one inch potato-like things. Hill is nothing but weeds and wild onion.
Thoughts on what they are?

Also, are wild onions animal/people safe??

 

[lesa]

Did you cut one open? What do they smell like?

 

[Carol Dee]

Sure look like potatoes. Are you new there? Could someone have had a garden there before?

 

[secuono]

I never planted anything, someone before us buying this place had planted bulb flowers. These were found on the very low end of the hill, 6in down and right up against the drive way. It would of been a stupid place to plant food.
Cut one open just now, it's white inside, don't really smell anything. =/

 

[journey11]

Could be wild sunchokes. These look just like yours. Have you ever noticed a tall, yellow wildflower blooming there? Like this one ...

 

[Ridgerunner]

That's a hard one. it does look like a potato and it looks like it is starting to bud. How was it in the ground? Was it in a clump pretty tight together or were there a few individual tubers sort of scattered?

Those look like they are going to send up a bunch of stalks, not an individual stem. The closest flower I can come up with is dahlia but that just doesn't look quite right for them.

 

[Just-Moxie]

Put some in a container and see what grows. I had that mystery with some bulbs....took 2.5 years for me to find out they were Spider Lilly.

 

[897tgigvib]

I can tell you those are not onions of any kind.

They don't look right for Jerusalem Artichokes either.

They actually do look like regular potatoes. The one you cut open, can you get the faintest whiff of a potato smell from it? Also, it is the right time of year for taters to start sprouting like that.

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True wild onions are very edible! But, make sure your wild onions are just that, wild onions. There are some wild bulbs that are deadly poisonous called death cammas that vaguely look like wild onions, and there are others called Brodeia that simply have no flavor and im not sure if they are toxic or not.

 

[secuono]

Well, just found out wild onion and wild garlic are very similar...I'll get pics tomorrow.

 

[897tgigvib]

Sec, there is the possibility you have something special there. Native or early american heirloom left on its own and surviving.