Edible Wild Plants

> The only one i know of is the Japanese Honeysuckle.
And ONLY the blooms should be eaten.
NOT ! the berries !, they are extremely poisonous ! Shocked

Always ! research any ! plant, shrub, flower etc that you think ? may be edible. Cool

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I knew you could have the nectar, but I wasn't sure about the rest of the plant. Smile

Cheers.

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> WILD GINGER <

- Description:Aromatic root, smells like ginger; two heart shaped leaves, petioles & primitive flower hairy.
Note the hairy stem & heart shaped leaves. In May, the prinitive flower emerges. Found on rich soil in moist woods.

- Cooking Tips: Crushed root addes to salad dressings. When dried and grated it is an adequate substitute for oriental ginger. For the daring, gourmet, try boiling the root until tender...Then simmer in maple syrup, an UNUSUAL candy treat.

- Pharmeceutical Uses: Root was used to treat colds & cough, antiseptic & tonic.

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> SWEET CICELY <

-Description: WARNING: LOOKS LIKE HEMLOCK. Broken root smell like anise. Bright green, shiny leaves; small, white flowers in umbles. Wild anise, commonly called sweet cicely, has a sweet anise odor & taste.
Use as an anis substitute.

- Cooking Tips: Use root to spice cooked greens.

- Pharmeceutical Uses: Leaves occasionally eaten be diabetics as sugar substitute.

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Shortly after moving in, I thought I would take a walk and get to know the national park across the street. I found a Highbush Cranberry just like the one I used to pic off of when I was a kid. Well, I grabbed several berries and tossed them into my mouth... Blehck! they were disgusting! I later found out that there is an American Highbush Cranberry (yummy) and a European Highbush Cranberry (or assberry, as I call it)... I now know how to tell them apart WITHOUT performing the taste test.

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Last edited by Askdamice on Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:14 am; edited 1 time in total

Mmmmmm, assberry Mr. Green

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	Askdamice wrote:
	I later found out that there is an American Highbush Cranberry (yummy) and a European Highbush Cranberry (or assberry, as I call it)... I now know how to tell them apart WITHOUT performing the taste test.

That is the best name for a foul tasting berry...EVER. And I believe I have tasted that one once before myself, although I don't remember where.

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> PARTRIDGE BERRY <

- Description: A tiny creeper, with oval leaves, found at the base of trees in wet woods of the northern & central U.S & Canada. Bland berry ripens to bright red by late summer.

- Cooking Tips: A tasteless trail food, with little or no bulk - a hard times, survival berry, avaliable all winter.

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Last edited by Drummer Dave on Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:27 am; edited 3 times in total

Askdamice wrote:

Shortly after moving in, I thought I would take a walk and get to know the national park across the street. I found a Highbush Cranberry just like then one I used to pic off of when I was a kid. Well, I grabbed several berries and tossed them into my mouth... Blehck! they were disgusting! I later found out that there is an American Highbush Cranberry (yummy) and a European Highbush Cranberry (or assberry, as I call it)... I now know how to tell them apart WITHOUT performing the taste test.

What did it taste like? Shocked

Or do I want to know? Laughing

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I figured assbeery was self explanitory Shocked

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I guess so. Laughing

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> Grey Morel <

- Description: Convoluted, brain-like flesh, grey or black. Found from about mid-April through May, in many wooded areas of the U.S ... Convoluted brain look is distinctive, but there are some dangerous look-alikes.

- Warning: MANY MUSHROOMS ARE DEADLY. SEEK POSITIVE ICENTIFICATION FROM AN EXPERT BEFORE EATING.

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If you think you have a morel, cut it open lengthwise. I don't think any of the look-alikes (and they really don't look that close anyway) are hollow. I've found a fairly big one of those growing in a local boy scout camp...that was a strange find....

> TROUT LILY <

- Description: Trout Lily or dog toothed violet has mottled leaves & small yellow lily-like flower.

- Cooking Tips: Young leaves may be boiled for 10 minutes & eaten, poor tasting. The tuberous root is also edible...after lengthy boiling. The real beauty of this plant is in the eyes of the beholder...As a foodstuff it's best left alone.

- Pharmaceutical Uses: Tae from root used to reduce fever. Crushed leaves used as poultice over ulcers.

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Drummer you are making me hungry..............love the morel's

mushroom season is my most favorite season!

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	tfisher wrote:
	Drummer you are making me hungry..............love the morel's mushroom season is my most favorite season!

> Ive heard so many good things about these as well.
Ive never had the luck of finding one. I seen a show were 2 guys went out every year and collected many of these and went back to camp, had beers and morels for lunch Laughing

they swear there the best tasting mushrooms ever.

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They are great....... my family and I usually eat about 10 pounds a year.
I get up before sunrise go out find a mess and then go to work at 7:00 am.

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> WILD OATS <

- Description: Yellow, drooping, lily-like flower; angled stem, leaves do not surrond stem as in related bellwort species. The early spring shoots of Wild Oats may be eaten...But use them sparingly. Avoid picking this plant where not abundant.

- Pharmaceutical Uses: Root used as poultice over boils & wounds. Boiled root used to treat diarrhea.

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I've seen that before. Cool

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> AMERICAN GINSENG <

- Description: Straight, erect stem, with 2 or 3 leaf stems; 5-11 leaves per stem. American Genseng root, a prised medicinal in China, sells for about $ 150 per pound. Commercially cultivated.

- Cooking Tips: Chinese cook root in chicken soup. They also eat berries.

- Pharmaceutical Uses: Ginseng root's active ingredients, called saponins ( glycosides ). Some saponins raise blood pressure, others lower it. Some raise blood sugar, some lower it. Obviously, more research is needed.

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