Index for Album F-1999-11-14: Foraging in Cunningham Park - Nov 14, 1999

Pictures from a foraging tour in Cunningham Park (Queens, New York) given by "Wildman" Steve Brill.

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1 Common Evening Primrose Common Evening Primrose
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
2 Common Evening Primrose Common Evening Primrose
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
3 Common Evening Primrose Common Evening Primrose. Note white vein down the middle of the leaf.
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
4 Common Evening Primrose - Flower Common Evening Primrose - Flower
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
5 Common Evening Primrose Common Evening Primrose. Some seeds in Wildman’s hand.
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
6 Common Evening Primrose Common Evening Primrose. Note four-parted stigma forming an X. I don’t know why it wasn’t centered better.
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
7 Common Evening Primrose - dried flowers Common Evening Primrose - dried flowers.
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
8 Common Evening Primrose - dried flowers Common Evening Primrose - dried flowers.
Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
9 Wild Carrot Wild Carrot 10 Wild Carrot Wild Carrot
11 Wild Carrot Wild Carrot 12 Lamb's-Quarters Lamb’s-Quarters
Scientific name: Chenopodium album
13 Lamb's-Quarters Lamb’s-Quarters
Scientific name: Chenopodium album
14 Lamb's-Quarters Lamb’s-Quarters
Scientific name: Chenopodium album
15 Red Clover Red Clover
Scientific name: Trifolium pratense
16 Red Clover Red Clover
Scientific name: Trifolium pratense
17 Red Clover Red Clover
Scientific name: Trifolium pratense
18 Sheep Sorrel Sheep Sorrel
Scientific name: Rumex acetosella
19 Sheep Sorrel Sheep Sorrel
Scientific name: Rumex acetosella
20 Sheep Sorrel Sheep Sorrel
Scientific name: Rumex acetosella
21 Hawthorne Berries Hawthorne Berries
Scientific name: Crataegus species
22 Poison Ivy - patch Poison Ivy - patch. Wildman always points this one out and warns the tour participants.
Scientific name: Rubus laciniatus
23 Blackberry Blackberry.
Scientific name: Toxicodendron radicans
24 Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely)
Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
25 Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely)
Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
26 Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely)
Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
27 Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely). This and the next were from later in the tour.
Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
28 Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely)
Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
29 Sassafras Sassafras. Well, the leaves had all fallen, and the camera would never have focused on the twigs of the little ones, so I took pictures of some trunks. This one the flash came on.
Scientific name: Sassafras albidum
30 Sassafras Sassafras. Then I tried one with the flash turned off.
Scientific name: Sassafras albidum
31 Sassafras Sassafras. A bigger trunk with the flash on. The camera has a tendency to overexpose flash pictures.
Scientific name: Sassafras albidum
32 Sassafras Sassafras. So I took one with the flash off. But with the longer exposure time, and hand holding the camera, it is a bit blurred.
Scientific name: Sassafras albidum
33 Wild Asparagus Wild Asparagus. Wrong time of the year to eat it, but here’s a picture of it anyway. 34 Crab Apple Tree Crab Apple Tree
Scientific name: Malus
35 Crab Apple Tree Crab Apple Tree
Scientific name: Malus
36 Crab Apple Crab Apple. Wildman cut one open to show that all apples have the seeds in a star.
Scientific name: Malus
37 Poor Man's Pepper Poor Man’s Pepper
Scientific name: Lepidium virginicum
38 Rose Hips Rose Hips. With people grabbing the tree it was hard to take a picture of a moving bunch of berries.
Scientific name: Rosa spieces
39 Wild Bay Leaf Wild Bay Leaf
Scientific name: Myrica pensylvanica
40 Blewit Mushroom Blewit Mushroom
41 Blewit Mushroom Blewit Mushroom 42 Wild Parsnips Wild Parsnips
43 Wild Parsnips Wild Parsnips. A nice fat tap root. 44 Wild Parsnips Wild Parsnips. The fellow that dug this one spent quite a while to get such a long root.
45 Garlic Mustard Garlic Mustard
Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis
46 Garlic Mustard Garlic Mustard
Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis
47 Garlic Mustard Garlic Mustard
Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis
48 Garlic Mustard Garlic Mustard. Well, the seeds were almost all gone, but I found a few. There were some in this picture, but they didn’t come out. On pictures like this the camera has difficulty focusing.
Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis
49 Northern Wild Raisins Northern Wild Raisins
Scientific name: Viburnum opulus or V. cassinoides
50 Northern Wild Raisins Northern Wild Raisins
Scientific name: Viburnum opulus or V. cassinoides
51 Northern Wild Raisin Bush Northern Wild Raisin Bush
Scientific name: Viburnum opulus or V. cassinoides
52 Reishi Mushroom Reishi Mushroom. Too old to eat.
53 Witch Hazel Witch Hazel
Scientific name: Hamamelis
54 Witch Hazel Witch Hazel
Scientific name: Hamamelis
55 Wild Apples Wild Apples. Real apples and not crab apples. That’s Wildman there with his arm outstretched, pointing out more of the trees. 56 Wild Apples Wild Apples. To get them down some of the guys climbed the trees and shook them down. One got much higher up than this picture shows.
57 Wild Apple - Closeup Wild Apple - Closeup. Isn’t it pretty? 58 Field Garlic (Wild Onions) Field Garlic (Wild Onions). We didn’t have time to go over this one. We spent a lot of time collecting apples. But I took a quick shot of a bunch.
Scientific name: Allium vineale

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