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Old 09-06-2009, 09:05 AM
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I dont know if this counts but I like smoking with birch out in the woods. I dont eat random plants only because I don't really know which ones are edible, but I'm sure you could make a great salad if you knew!
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elder flowers....what a great syrup for a refreshing beverage

blackberries, dewberries

I've a buddy that hunts black raspberries and blackberries, wild black walnuts.....he is a forager extrodinaire...
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I am just cuckoo over chocolate mint leaves.

Its exactly that, a mint leaf that tastes like chocolate. I serve that to my guests, talk about the WOW factor.

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my favorite edible wild plants are fiddlehead greens and dandylion green. Wild mustard and wild hoarsradish come in close second tho.

Oh yes and teaberry leaves too...ok and spruce gum...
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Kangkong is a Ipomea Sp. that grows wild, weed like, in freshwater tropical waters all over the world. I grow it in Brisbane over summer in a garbage bin full of water.
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I wish I knew more edible plants around here in NorCal! Of course, now it's all dry anyway, but aside of miner's lettuce and dandylion, a couple others, I don't know any. I grew up in Germany and knew lots of edible things, that was always fun. I think I have to look for a book, best would be one that's for my area here. Anybody have any recommendations?

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