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;) I'll post the pics and then come back later in case anyone wants to guess and I'll label them. Anyone else got any good edible plant pics to share?

1Tracker said:
the first one was/is hazelnut or filberts if I'm not mistaken by the picture HD.
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RIGHT! These are a bunch that are by my hayfiield


First one is a nut. Shrubby like plant. It has the catkin things you can see hanging down there
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This next one is a berry. Sorry I don't have a pic of the actual berry. It is in sort of a husk and then when the berry ripens it opens up. The berry is red. The plant is actually an introduced species, but it has naturalized most places in my area

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Does anybody know that rhyme that starts with: "red and sweet is good to eat....?" I'm not sure if that is always true, but I know I've heard it before.
 
No pics but two of the most prolific edibles down here are cabbage palm hearts and kudzu. Also see quite a bit of surinam cherries growing wild as well as sea grapes, coco plum and strangler fig. And I shouldn't leave out saw palmetto and coontie. You have to boil the coontie though because, like taro, it has a poison in it that must be thoroughly leeched out during preparation.

That word makes me chuckle. Coontie.
 
I'll tell you what this one is cause we didn't know till we looked it up.

Comb Tooth Hericium Ramosum

We didn't try to eat this one since we had just looked it up but the book says it's good.

Before I start up eating a new type of fungi I usually just try a little first. Always possible to miss ID one plus some people have allegic reactions even to the edible ones.

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Yucca is very useful. Used as soap, twisted into super tough cord etc.
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Mulefat makes excellent firedrill and even baseboard material
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Also have lots of edibles like mustard greens, miners lettuce and prickly cactus around
 
Hollowdweller, I'll say blueberries, crab apples (or rose hips :) ) and choke cherries for three of those, don't know about that yellow mushroom :eek: Looks like it leads to black-thumbnail disease :D great photographs by the way.

Pitdog, regular roadside daylillies are also good to eat, in fact you can just pluck and munch on the buds before they open :)
 
Dylside said:
Are most lillies edible? Which are and which aren't?
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I don't know, can't say. I do know that daylillies are, those are the orange ones...they grow wild along the roadsides all over up here...some people even pick the blossoms and put them in looseleaf salads just to make them pretty.

You can also eat wild violets and dandelions.

A warning: before you go eating anything wild, you should always check it out. Some things can kill you. There are plenty of books available on wild food identification, and you can do a Google search for almost anything. Also, ask the people who live in an area where you might find edible plants.
 
Coldwood said:
Hollowdweller, I'll say blueberries, crab apples (or rose hips :) ) and choke cherries for three of those,
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Coldwood. You are right about the blueberries. But the other are not crab apples or chokecherries. For the red berries think low growing bog plant.
 
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