“Now we are gathering leaves and shoots of Greenbriar. Should have done it a week or two back. The leaves are like a green taco shell, just add whatever stuff in the middle you want. Sort of like grape leaves but not cooked. Straight out of Euell Gibbons “Stalking the Wild Asparagus”.”
The same greenbriars that are all over my forest, with thorns ripping my clothes whenever I try to walk around the woods?
Greenbriers are just about everywhere, although there are over 300 species worldwide.
The ones around here are the nice round-leafed ones mostly. In some places like Florida there several that have narrow leaves, some with a saw-tooth edge. Might be OK when very, very young as a salad green.
I dug up a couple pieces of greenbrier root/rhizome. Now I know why it’s hard as heck to get rid of. At the very base or just under the leaf litter, there are hundreds of wicked little thorns.