Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms, Natures Suppermarket.

By SG Nichols

Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms (Natures Supermarket) , is a basic, straight to the point guide of edible wild plants and mushrooms for backpackers, hikers, or anyone wanting to learn about edible and poisonous wild plants, mushrooms, berries and nuts. Learn how to recognize edible wild plants, where to find them, their medicinal and nutritional uses. There's food and medicine growing all around us. Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms (Natures Supermarket) has full color photos of each plant it is 95 pages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 8, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365630194

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Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms, Natures Suppermarket.

EDIBLE WILD PLANTS

& MUSHROOMS

NATURES

SUPPERMARKET

EDIBLE WILD PLANTS

& MUSHROOMS

NATURES

SUPPERMARKET

SG. Nichols

Wahya

Wahya Publishing

2016

Copyright © 2016 by SG. Nichols

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: 2016

ISBN 978-1-365-63019-4

Wahya Publishing

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

www.publishing.wahya.net

Warnings

WARNING: Do not eat any plant unless you have positively identified it first!

Ingestion poisoning can be very serious, and could lead to adverse effects or even death very quickly. To avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have any of the following:

Milky or discoloured sap

Beans, bulbs or seeds inside pods

Bitter or soapy taste

Spines, fine hairs or thorns

Dill, carrot, parsnip or parsley-like foliage

Almond scent in woody parts and leaves

Grain heads with pink, purplish or black spurs

Three-leafed growth pattern

Using the above criteria as eliminators when choosing edible plants will cause you to avoid some edible plants. However, more importantly, these criteria will often help you avoid plants that are potentially toxic to eat or touch. Not all  toxic plants have any of these criteria!

WARNING: Never, ever eat a mushroom you haven't positively identified!

The only way to tell if a mushroom is edible is by positive identification, and there's no room for experimentation. Symptoms of the most dangerous mushrooms affecting the central nervous system may show up after several days have passed, when it is too late to reverse their effects.

Please remember that this is not a definitive guide, only an introduction. Don't eat anything based on what you've read here. No page in a book will replace real life experience and instruction.

Poisonous plant and mushroom identification is something that should be learned hands-on. Always stick to the species you know and seek hands-on local instruction.

However, even experienced mushroom hunters have poisoned themselves so remember the age-old adage:

When in doubt, throw it out!

Edible Plants

Plant Leaf Edges

DANDELION (TARAXACUM OFFICINALE)

Dandelion can be steamed whole. Its center greens that are young can be eaten raw. The best part of the plant is its flower.

Dandelion greens are a rich source of vitamin A. Dandelion has been used in traditional Native American medicine.    Traditionally, dandelion was most commonly used to treat liver diseases, kidney diseases, and spleen problems. Less commonly, dandelion was used to treat digestive problems and skin conditions.

The leaves and roots of the dandelion, or the whole plant, are used fresh or dried in teas. Dandelion leaves are used in salads or as a cooked green, and the flowers can be breaded and fried or even used to make wine.

The best way to eat the plant is to remove the green base of the flower to remove the white sap which is bitter. This is one of the wild plants you can eat, that you can find in abundance in the wild.

Dandelion is a great source of nutrition

This humble backyard weed provides dietary fiber, vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), Riboflavin, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin K, iron and calcium.

CHICKWEED (STELLARIA MEDIA)

Chickweed is an annual wild edible that grows in many locations particularly throughout Europe and North America. It is one of the most common weeds founds in lawns but it also grows well in cultivated fields, pastures, waste areas and even under deciduous forests and all its parts can be consumed.