Index for Album F-2000-05-27: Foraging - May 27, 2000

Foraging in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on a tour given by "Wildman" Steve Brill. For more on foraging see foraging.com.

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1 Amaranth. Can eat leaves in Spring (seeds in Fall). Like spinach. Eat raw or cooked.
2 Poor man's pepper
3 Mica cap mushroom. Turns into black ink. Not poisonous, but not good to eat.
4 Hedge mustard. Good in salads. In season from April to June.
5 Psathyrella mushroom? Not good to eat.
6 Chickweed. My camera can never focus correctly on this!
7 Big field of chickweed.
8 Chickweed flower closeup.
9 White snake root. Poisonous.
10 Garlic mustard, first year. Starts to get bitter this time of year. Root is like horseradish.
11 Garlic mustard, second year.
12 Wood sorrel
13 Mugwort. Not eaten, but used as a tonic.
14 Fairy ring mushrooms. Must be cooked. Caps only. Stems too tough.
15 Gout weed.
16 Gout weed with flowers.
17 Gout weed in flower. A field of them.
18 Wild rose, or multi-flora rose. Leaves are edible. In fall rose hips, but have many seeds.
19 Wild rose flower closeup.
20 June berry. Very delicious berries in June.
21 Spring agrocybe, or hard agrocybe. Not good to eat.
22 Red bud bush.
23 Red bud bush, with edible pods. Can eat raw. Cook like snow peas. Flowers also good in April.
24 Common blue violet. Tastes like lettuce.
25 Common spice bush. Has alternating leaves. Leaves only good for tea. Berries in Fall are like allspice.
26 Poison ivy.
27 Greater celandine. Don't eat. Juice used on warts.
28 Greater celandine flower closeup.
29 Plum tree. Plums are in June.
30 Baby painted turtle.
31 Curly dock. Seeds edible. Leaves still edible, though now a little sour.
32 Garlic mustard. Stems now too tough, but bulbs good. Like garlic.
33 Hawthorne tree. Berries in Fall.
34 Hawthorne tree closeup.
35 Mulberry tree. Berries in mid-June to July.
36 Mulberry tree branch closeup.
37 Mulberry tree berry closeup.
38 Buttercup. Poisonous.
39 Gingko. Nuts in Fall.
40 Steve holding pokeweed. Hard to cook. Root is poisonous.
41 Pokeweed in situ.
42 Grape leaves. Can roll food up in them.
43 Quince. Fruit is ripe in Fall. Sour.
44 Quince flowers.
45 Quince flower closeup.
46 Common nightshade. Poisonous.
47 Lamb's quarters. Good from May to November.
48 Hedge mustard. Very young.
49 Gall. Insects laid eggs in leaves with food supply. Baby insects are inside.
50 Burdock. Now can peel stems and boil for one minute. Very short season for stems.
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