Wild edible plants (video, ten part series)

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[djf]

Series of videos describing wild edible plants. With images of plants, descriptions and warnings.

Plants described: Acacia greggii Cat claw Acacia Agastache urticifolia giant hyssop Agave deserti Agave Agropyron repens quack grass Alisma water plantain. Allium wild onions Amaranthus Amarathn Amelanchier alnifolia service berries Arbutus menziesii Madrone Arctostaphylos Manzanita Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Kinnikinnik Artemisia tridentata big basin sagebrush Asarum sp wild ginger Asclepias speciosa showy milkweed Avena fatua barbata wild oats Balsamorhiza sagittata Balsam Root Barbarea Winter cress Beckmannia syzigachne Slough grass Brassica nigra Black Mustard Sea Rocket Red Maids Mariposa Lily Fairy Slipper Camass Shepherd's purse Milk Maids Bittercress Plumeless Thistle caraway Bush Chinquapin Indian Paintbrush Hackberry Redbud Saguaro greenleaf five eyes Goosefoot Pipsissewa Soap Plant Chicory Mormon Tea Fireweed Horsetails Yerba Santa Stork bill Filaree Fawn Lily False Mermaid Fennel Octillo Elkweed Fritillary Bed Straw Salal Manna Grass licorice carveseed Rein Orchid Sunflowers Cow-Parsnip Desert Lily Toyon Alum-root Hawkweed Rushpea "velvet grass" "Cream bush" Waterleaf "Desert Lavender" "Black Walnut" Chuparosa "Wild Lettuce" Deadnettle "Desert Alysum" Bitterroot "True Lilies" "Blue Flax" "Biscuit root" honeysuckle "Yellow Skunk Cabbage" Tarweed "Oregon Grape" "Black Medick" Stickleaf "Ice Plant" "Nodding Microseris" Monkeyflower "Poverty weed" "Indian Pipe" Water-cress Yellow Pond-Lily "Oso Berry" "Evening Primrose" "Desert Ironwood" "Prickly Pear" Broomrape "Indian Potato" "Indian Ricegrass" "Sweet Cicely" "Redwood Sorrel" "Mountain Sorrel" switchgrass "Palo Verde" Yampah "Sweet Coltfoot" "Canary Grass" "Reed Grass" Pines Plantain Knotweed "Smart weed" Aspen Cottonwood Purslane "Pond weed" Silverweed "Unicorn Plant" "Devil's Claws" Mesquite Selfheal "Hollyleaf Cherry" "Sierra Plum" Chokecherry Oak Ranunculus occidentalis Buttercup Reseda lutea Yellow Mignonette Ribes species Gooseberry, Currant Rosa californica Wild Rose Rubus vitifolius Blackberry Rumex hymenosepalus Sourdock Sagittaria latifolia Tule Potato Salicornia species Pickleweed Salvia apiana White Sage Salvia carduacea Thistle Sage Salvia columbaria Chia Sambucus nigra Blue Elderberry Sanguisorba annua minor Burnet Sarcobatus vermiculatus Grease wood Scirpus robustus Bull Tulle Sedum species Stonecrop.avi Setaria species Bristly Foxtail Shepherdia argentea Silver Buffalo berry Sidalcea checkerbloom Simmondsia chinensis Jojoba Sisymbrium officinale Hedge Mustard Sedum species Stonecrop Smilax californica Greenbier Sonchus asper Prickly Sow-Thistlei Sorbus species Mountain Ash Sparganium eurycarpum Bur-reed Sporobolus species Drop seed Stanleya species Princes Plume Stellaria media Chickweed Streptanthus crass inflatum Squaw Cabbage Suaeda species Seablite or seepweed Taraxacum officinale Dandelioni Tetragonia tetragonioides New Zealand Spinach Thysanocarpus curvipes Fringepod Tragopogon species, Oyster Plant Triglochin maritima Arrow Grass Tsuga mertensiana, heterophylla Mountain Hemlock Typha species Cattail Umbellularia californica Bay Laurel Urtica gracilis Stinging Nettlesi Vaccinium ovatum Huckleberry Arctium lappa Burdock Maianthemum racemosum False Solomon Seal Valerianella olitoria, carinata Corn Salad Verbena hastata Blue Verbena Viola Violet Vitis Wild Grape Washingtonia filifera California Fan Palm Wyethia augustifolia Mule Ears Xerophyllum tenax Bear Grass Yucca species Joshua tree

CAUTION: If you see a plant name above you think you recognize, DO NOT assume it is edible without watching the videa or know otherwise. In many cases, seeds might be ok but the leaves are deadly, that sort of thing.

[djf]

Wow. Xlent add-on. And the video quality of the mp4’s it makes is much, much better than watching things on Utube.

I should be able to capture all ten and they will easily fit on one DVD.

Good to have them so I can get to them if I’m offline...

[Daffynition]

Please indulge my little mushroom story: Our grandmother lived on a five-acre plot on the edge of the city. She and gramps were pretty much self-sufficient there. She was a master at making do with what she had. The woodstove in the kitchen was forever cooking something.

One of the delights of her life was mushroom foraging. She'd be gone a whole day, harvesting from her favorite haunts and bring home baskets and baskets of mushrooms.

As fate would have it, she was in her late 80s, lying on her death bed, in hospital, of stomach cancer. When the end was near, we were summoned to be with her. When I arrived, her sons and daughters [she had 11 children] were crowdwed around the bed. I recall this day so well, I was in my late teens then, and a lull in the conversation of sharing memories and good times, and in an effort to keep her mind off her pain. I piped up and said, "Gram, I'll always remember the delicious pot of mushrooms you'd make. I don't think any of us really were taught which mushrooms to pick were the *good* ones" How could you tell?*

She replied: *I didn't.*

Well! The look of horror and disbelief on the faces surrounding her bedside was almost funny. Most of us did laugh....but she quickly recovered by saying....when you cook wild mushrooms, always cook them with a real silver dollar in the pot. If the silver coin turns black...throw them out.

I always wondered why she kept a silver dollar on the stove shelf. Heh.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Very interesting, I’ve never heard of tarnishing silver being an indicator of a bad mushroom.

[Daffynition]

Guess it's a well-documented Old Wive's Tale:

**The old wives' tale that silver—a coin or spoon—will blacken if placed in a pot along with toxic mushrooms is true for only some varieties. The deadliest mushrooms do not tarnish silver**

[freedommom]

moon flowers...they are everywhere here 77871 and they are
one of the most poisonous and most hallucagenic too

[freedommom]

moon flowers...they are everywhere here 77871 and they are
one of the most poisonous and most hallucagenic too

[Daffynition]

Well, today's paper had a story about a fam that got sick from eating mushrooms last week that were poisonous. :(

http://www.courant.com/health/connecticut/hc-mushroom-sick-20121016,0,4131181.story

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I read that story yesterday. Those people are lucky a little sick is all it cost them.

This story just reinforces my policy of studiously avoiding wild fungi.

[Daffynition]

I hear ya! :)

She was lucky the doc & hosp were willing to try the experimental drug, N-Acetylcysteine.

So often these-type horror stories pop-up and they always seem to involve a fam from a third world country.