Do You Recognize It?

Mistwalker

Mistwalker

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Who here recognizes this plant in this stage? It's a good one to be able to recognize, several uses.






A couple of closeups with the focus on different areas of it.








I'm sure most of you recognize the knife model

 
Mist, I wish I could say I know but I do not. I'm interested in knowing though! :)

Mark
 
maw said:
Mist, I wish I could say I know but I do not. I'm interested in knowing though! :)

Mark
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I'll wait a bit and see if anyone else does. I feel a Fiddleback wild plants thread coming lol.
 
Half of me says 'Dalea' the other says 'Thistle'... And I'm probably wrong on both. I gotta start re-reading my plant biology guide again.
 
A couple more shots of it that show the fine flower stems developing








It's not onions. However this plant has a lot in common with onion plants, very similar in a few ways, so that was a good guess. The onions look a bit different though. They have larger seeds and flowers, and the seeds are a different color. These are onion scapes starting to flower










These are garlic scapes in the early phase. They are longer and skinnier in shape that the onion scapes.






This is a garlic scape and an onion scape side by side. Onion on the left, garlic on the right





In this pic the garlic is on bottom running diagonally from upper right to lower left, the unions are on top and run from upper left to lower right. You can't see the garlic scapes in this pic, but you can see the lighter green of the onions contrasting with the darker green of the garlic. Also the entire onion plant is grass like and easily flexible, where as the lower stalk of the garlic feels more woody and stiff to support the height it grows to.






The onions don't grow as tall as the garlic.



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Neato Mist. These are very nice photos! You mentioned in your earlier post about them having several uses. Can you expand on that for me?

Mark
 
Well, there is tone of info on the healthy benefits for the blood, heart, and body as a whole, of eating garlic on the web. It's a good source of a lot of vitamins, and a good way to add flavor to any bush meal during it's growing season. Eating raw garlic and rubbing the oils on your clothing will help ward off parasitic insects. Plus the oil in the cloves and in the scapes are good for forcing a patina on raw O-1 :)
 
mistwalker said:
I'll wait a bit and see if anyone else does. I feel a Fiddleback wild plants thread coming lol.
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Comparison post is so informative! You take the blah blah of description to the visual ... and reach so many , teach so many. I know that all BF readers eat. How I would love to see a thread in W&SS where wild edibles could find their way to a campfire 'table' ... like the pinemartyn post about pot within a pot baking.

:thumbup: for the visuals that make nature come alive!
 
taldesta said:
Comparison post is so informative! You take the blah blah of description to the visual ... and reach so many , teach so many. I know that all BF readers eat. How I would love to see a thread in W&SS where wild edibles could find their way to a campfire 'table' ... like the pinemartyn post about pot within a pot baking.

:thumbup: for the visuals that make nature come alive!
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Thank you, I am a very visual person and learn better through vivid images than drawings and descriptions, so I try to share the things I learn. I'm glad you enjoyed the post. Several of us have done similar posts on wild edibles in our areas of the world. Below are some of my old threads, but I feel a photo heavy plant ID post for the Fiddleback forum coming later this year. Taking lots of photos of the plants in progress now.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1009295-Took-The-Youngest-Foraging

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1008357-Some-Mid-Autumn-Foraging

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...mn-Foraging-amp-Experimenting-With-The-Missus

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...on-Fruit-amp-Other-Colorful-Berries-and-Stuff

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/957148-Some-Wild-Edibles-Stuff

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/790881-Epic-Outing-With-My-Eldest
 
I love plant ID threads. I just may have to take pics of 'what's in Schmittie's yard'.....lol!
 
schmittie said:
I love plant ID threads. I just may have to take pics of 'what's in Schmittie's yard'.....lol!
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It may surprise you. I have a lot of strawberries, plantain, dandelion, onions, and garlic. But I don't waste any money trying to kill "weeds" :)
 
Found these in my parents back yard while trying to get some things done for them.

Anybody recognize? (I know you do Mist. Let someone have a guess :) )

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Here is a closer picture of the stem.

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Hmmm… I'm pretty sure it's not poison ivy. But every plant that I don't recognize is poison ivy, in my world. Just like every snake is a viper. :]

Some kind of berry, maybe?
 
It looks like it might be a himalayan blackberry bush. I'm not sure though. The stems always seem a little more reddish out here in Washington.
 
mrkite said:
Hmmm… I'm pretty sure it's not poison ivy. But every plant that I don't recognize is poison ivy, in my world. Just like every snake is a viper. :]

Some kind of berry, maybe?
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Poison ivy?! Negative.

" some kind of berry"? Now you are getting warmer. :)

icybluesmile said:
It looks like it might be a himalayan blackberry bush. I'm not sure though. The stems always seem a little more reddish out here in Washington.
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Raining said:
Poison ivy doesn't have thorns. Looks like blackberry to me.
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You two happen to be correct!

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