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Plants & Roots - Edible
Edible and Medicinal Plants - Sheep sorrel Featured
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/Appb.php
Description: These plants are seldom more than 30 centimeters tall. They have alternate leaves, often with arrowlike bases, very small flowers, and frequently reddish stems.
Habitat and Distribution: Look for these plants in old fields and other distu ...
Survival Training - Finding Food Featured
http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/food/edibleplants/trout
Extremely photogenic flowers dapple the early spring woods with their beautiful yellow. The corms (tubers) are edible raw.
Making Wines from Wild Plants/Elderberry Featured
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/plants.asp
American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) shrubs, often called simply American elders, produce an abundant amount of fruit each summer. The blue-black berries, each barely more than 1/8 inch in diameter, grow in large clusters and are a favorite of wildli ...
Edible Sierra Nevada Plants/Flowering Plants Featured
Flower parts mainly 4's and 5's; leaves usually pinnately or palmately veined; embryo with 2 cotyledons (the first leaves of the embryo of a flowering plant.
Why Dandelions? Featured
One of the fascinations of a place like Cleveland's West Side Market is its diversity--the various cultures represented and foods from practically every cuisine known. The irony, however, is that most people who come to the market pass by the most nutriti ...
Edible flowers Featured
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_flowers_plants/article/0,1785,HG
While many gardeners want color, fragrance, texture and diversity in their gardens, James suggests adding a bit of flavor as well for an appetizing flower garden. "Flowers add an unmatched elegance to a serving plate both visually and gastronomically," sa ...
Eating Alder Catkins Featured
http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/food/saldercatkins/inde
I have found one reference to eating alder catkins. The Plants for a Future Database (www.pfaf.org), which holds ethnobotanical information on over 7000 plant species, says that the catkins have been eaten raw or cooked and are rich in protein. It also adds that the catkins are astringent and have been chewed to alleviate diarrhea. Here I would add that although I was initially concerned about the digestibility of catkins, there have been no signs of incomplete-breakdown or of unusual intestinal complications during the length of this experiment. Catkin nutrition seems to have been little-studied, so I will divert my focus to the pollen found in and on the male catkins. To walk from my cabin to the nearest alder stand, pick a half-gallon of catkins (which yields about six tablespoons of pollen), and return home takes about 90 minutes. If I may extrapolate from data regarding nutritional composition of hand-collected pollen (www.fao.org), six tablespoons—or roughly three ounces—of alder catkins pollen may contain: 0.6 oz of crude protein 1/3 oz of simple sugars 1/6 oz of crude fat 1/3 oz of starches all amino acids necessary for human health over 40 vitamins and minerals trace amounts of glucose oxidase, an antibacterial compound
Wild Mushrooms. Featured
Find out how you may safely identify, collect, and use our delicious, healthful wild mushrooms.
Categories of Edible Plant Products Featured
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2970/food.htm
This plant is an important food source. The stock of the tuber, the stalk (called the "rope" locally) and seeds are all eaten raw, cooked on the coals of the fire or baked in the capmari oven. For more information on plant food and the traditional subsist ...
Essential Survival Greens Featured
http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/esg.htm
For the curious, or those who wish to be prepared. Descriptive details on 60+ edible weedscommonly found in western and northern Europe which can used as survival food, which partsto use, and how to prepare them. Contains a limited number of basic recipes ...
ROSEHIP Featured
http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/rwfgrecs.htm
Puréed rosehips can be used as the basis of a soup, for a sauce to accompany meat, or used as seen above. Remove the stems and burs from the hips then split lengthwise and remove the seeds - a bit of a tedious job best done with a blunt knife. Place the prepared hips in a pan with an equal amount of water. Bring to the boil and then simmer gently until largely softened [top up with water if necessary]. Remove from the heat and allow to cool, then either mash with a fork or run through a blender. Your rosehip purée is ready for use.
GOING WILDER IN THE KITCHEN! Featured
http://www.bobcatswilderkitchen.com/plants.html
Personality: One of the most beautiful flowers in America, it is not just a pretty face. Although small and not showy, it offers high nutrition and powerful medicine. It is truly a plant with heart (-shaped leaves), that is good for the heart.Habitat/Ran ...
Salal Berry Featured
http://www.paghat.com/salal.html
Black and Blue always, sometimes Red, never White.
This is the ditty that will let you remember, what to eat.
Now what you can eat and what taste good are different.
Black and Blue will not hurt you and some are quite good.
Red you must know what ...
Cowberry Featured
http://plant-identification.co.uk/skye/ericaceae/vaccinium-v
Nutritional properties
Cowberries contain plentiful organic acids, vitamin C, provitamin A (as beta carotene), B vitamins (B1, B2, B3), and the elements potassium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. In addition to these healthful nutrients, cowberries a ...
Bunchberry Featured
http://ontariowildflowers.com/main/species.php?id=35
This plant is called a bunch berry. It is also called a dwarf dogwood. The Latin name for the bunchberry is Cornus canadensis. The leaves are smooth. The leaf shape is elliptical. The leaves come in groupings of 4 or 6 and they are symmetrical. This pictu ...
Cactus Nopales Featured
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/nopalitos.htm
How To Harvest and Prepare Nopalitos (Nopales)
Commercially two sizes of nopales pads are harvested which is small, (less than 10 cm long) or (medium less than 20 cm, about 100g). The Nopales leaf pads are usually harvested between spring and the end of ...
Usneaceae - Old man's beard Featured
Usnea has been used medicinally for at least 1000 years. Usnic acid (C18H16O7), a potent antibiotic and antifungal agent is found in most species. This, combined with the hairlike structure of the lichen, means that Usnea lent itself well to treating surf ...
The Mustard Family
Mustard flowers are easy to recognize. If you have a radish or turnip blooming in the garden, then take a close look at the blossoms. When identifying flower parts, it is best to start on the outside of the flower and work towards the middle like this: se ...
The Mallow Family
If you have seen a hollyhock or hibiscus flower, then you can recognize the Mallow family. Wild species may be smaller, but you will know you have a Mallow when you find a funnel-shaped flower with 5 separate petals and a distinctive column of stamens sur ...
Herb Pictures from Lau Scientific
Herb Pictures, Herb Photographs
Culinary Lavender
Lavender is undergoing a revival as a popular cooking herb. Ours is delicious, and specially sieved for you to use immediately. See our Cooking with Lavender page for ideas.
At home and the wilderness edible plants
http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1982_May_June/At_Home
Remember, though, that when a person sets out to gather wild edibles, he or she must do so with a great deal of caution. Some people, for example, might have allergic reactions to otherwise "safe" plants, and a number of factors—including the time of collection and method of preparation—can make a big difference in both the safety and the palatability of many free foods. You should never, of course, pick plants close to roadways, polluted waterways, croplands, or any other place where chemical sprays or fumes could have contaminated them.
How to indentify wild edible plants
http://www.wilderness-survival-skills.com/wildedibleplants.h
Wild edible plants, fruits, berries and nuts are one of the survivor's most important foods. You will always find plants in the wilderness unless you are in the middle of an arid desert. The problem is knowing which plants are edible and have good food va ...
Facts on Edible Wild Greens in Maine
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/4060.htm
Enthusiastic gardeners can get an early start harvesting spring greens that come up right in their backyard. These greens are nutritious—-high in vitamin A, vitamin C and iron. They're also low in calories, fat and cholesterol. Plus, wild greens are widely available and require no work at all—-except harvesting! As with any green, the younger the plant, the more tender it is. For the safest crop, be sure to pick greens well away from major roads or other chemically treated areas, and wash the greens well before you use them.DandelionsDandelion greens (Taraxacum officinale)—-a sure sign of spring—-are most welcome to add variety, vitamins and minerals to springtime meals. You may see people digging them in early May in spots where snow still lingers in the fields.Most people boil dandelion greens until tender (change the water once to mellow their tangy taste), then garnish with butter or lemon juice.
The Wild Leek
The Wild Leek, also known as the Ramp, or common Wild Leek (Allium tricoccum) is our best wild onion and a source of food and spiciness all year round.Broad, smooth, light green leaves, often with deep purple or burgundy tints on the lower stems begin arr ...
Living and raw foods
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/dandelion.html
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health, including such common plants as mullein (a tea made from ...
Root vegetable - Wikipedia
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Psoralea+esculenta
Root vegetables are underground plant parts used as vegetables. They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term, but include both true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots, as well as non-roots such as tubers, rhizomes, corms, and b ...
Edible Wild Plants / Gooseberries
Be sure of your identification of the wild edible plant BEFORE you eat it! Some wild edible plants have very poisonous look-alikes. You may be allergic to some wild edible plants. If you are at all unsure if you will be allergic to a particular plant, eat ...
150+ Edible UK Wild Plants
http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/rwfgplts.htm
The guide deals with over 150 plants found in the wild - some of which are escapees from gardens while other real wild plants are grown in gardens for decoration - so there is a blurring on the edges of what is wild. Some plants listed here have other 'fa ...
Edible Wild Plants of the Yard / Cattail
http://www.edibleplants.com/dwvplants.htm
WARNING: A plant on the list just means that it is discussed on the video. This does not mean that it is edible. Some plants in an edible list are toxic until prepared correctly or have toxic parts. KNOW before you eat ! Cattails are one of the most versa ...
Plants for a future
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Psoralea+esculenta
There are over 20,000 species of edible plants in the world yet fewer than 20 species now provide 90% of our food. However, there are hundreds of less well known edible plants from all around the world which are both delicious and nutritious.
Golden Chanterelles
The flashy Chanterelle is one of the most distinctively flavored mushrooms in all the world. It has been described as having the aroma of apricots and tasting more like a flower then a mushroom. There are several edible and delicious varieties but the one ...
The Mint Family
If you pick a plant with a distinctly square stalk and simple, opposite leaves, then it is very likely a member of the Mint family. Be sure to smell it too, since many species of the family are loaded with aromatic volatile oils.The rich, spicy quality of ...
Edible Sierra Nevada Plants/Trees
Plants trees, sometimes shrubs; leaves entire, usually scales or needles...
Really WILD Food Guide
http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/weedgall.htm
Inclusion on this page does not mean that a plant is 'immediately' edible For your safety. Do not consume wild plants if you have ANY medical condition, during pregnancy, or give to minors.Never eat a plant unless positively identified as safe to eat ...
The Aster/Sunflower Family
The uniqueness of the Aster or Sunflower family is that what first seems to be a single large flower is actually a composite of many smaller flowers. Look closely at a sunflower in bloom, and you can see that there are hundreds of little flowers growing o ...
Edible and Poisonous Plants Identification Cards
Edible and Poisonous Plants of the Eastern & Western StatesUtilizing wild plants for food can provide free, enjoyable and nutritious additions to modern menus. Their identification and use can be a taste-pleasing hobby for those who enjoy the feeling of b ...
California black oak
Unprocessed acorns usually have toxic quantities of tannin and may shutdown the digestive track. Proper leaching removes the tannin making them a major wild food item.The most common steps in leaching are shelling the nuts removing the inner skin grinding ...
Edible Sierra Nevada Plants
The flowers, buds and young flower stalks may be eaten raw, roasted or boiled. If the stalk is cut into slices and cooked the outer rind comes off easily. The seeds of all Sierran grasses are edible but often small and tedious to collect. ...
Nutritional Value of Mushrooms
Many myths have been spread about mushrooms. One of the most inaccurate is that mushrooms have no nutritional value. To properly consider them for their nutritional benefits, they must be viewed from a dried weight perspective. And mushrooms give you maxi ...
Edible Wild Plants
Have you ever eaten black locust flowers, cattail buds, or stinging nettle leaves? These are just some of the common "weeds" discussed in this book that are free, plentiful, and easy to prepare. Using wild plants as food has become more popular, as people ...
Food & Cooking
http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/food/scookingwithnature
This Beavertail Cactus (Opuntia basillaris var. basilaris) prefers warm south-facing slopes up here at 8000 feet. I can hardly wait until those flowers transform into juicy, sweet, purple fruits!
The Really WILD Food Guide
http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wildfoodjj/rwfgflv2.htm
Why should your wild food cooking be tasteless ? For anyone cooking in the outdoors there are spice and condiment approximations that can be derived from parts of certain wild plants. Don't expect these to mimic chilli or ginger exactly, but at least your ...
500+ Wildflower Photos
Plants that are related to each other have similar characteristics for identification. Botanists have simply looked for patterns in plants and created groups called "families" according to those patterns. In the northern latitudes where there are hard fre ...
The Parsley Family
The Parsley Family includes some wonderful edible plants like the carrot and parsnip, plus more aromatic spices found in your spice cabinet, such as anise, celery, chervil, coriander, caraway, cumin, dill, fennel and of course, parsley. But unlike the Mus ...
Trout Lily
http://altnature.com/gallery/
Other Names: Adder's tongue, American trout-lily, Dog's tooth violet, Serpent's Tongue, Yellow Adder's-tongue, Yellow fawn-lily, Yellow Snowdrop Caution! Trout Lily can be strongly emetic in some people (which means it makes you throw up a lot). Habitat ...
The Pea Family
If you have seen a pea or bean blossom in the garden, then you will be able to recognize members of the Pea family. These are irregular flowers, with 5 petals forming a distinctive "banner, wings, and keel", as shown in the illustration. The banner is a s ...
The Lily Family
you find a plant with parallel veins in the leaves and regular flowers with parts in multiples of three, chances are you have a member of the Lily family. The flowers have 3 sepals and 3 petals, usually identical in size and color. Any normal person woul ...
