#SurvivalTips: How to difference between poisonous plants and edible plants.
First at all, sorry for any grammar mistake I can make.
This is mainly for people that lives in forest or that goes camping, but I think everyone should know this little things.
First, what plants we should avoid?
If you can’t clearly identify a plant and you don’t know if it’s poisonous, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Steer clear from a plant if it has:
Spines, fine hairs, or thorns
Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods
Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsley-like foliage
‘Almond’ scent in the woody parts and leaves
Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs
Three-leaved growth pattern
Some toxic plants I found:
Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata)
The Water Hemlocks are the most poisonous plants in North America. All parts are deadly poisonous. Even a small mouthful can kill an adult.
Other common names: Spotted Cowbane
Family: Parsley Family (Apiaceae)
Distinctive features: Wet areas. Alternate twice-compound leaves; leaflets sometimes haphazard in arrangement.
Flowers: Small white flowers in a flat or rounded umbel (an umbrella-shaped cluster) 2-5" wide. Individual flowers about 1/8" wide, have 5 petals and 5 stamens.
Habitat: Wet open areas such as marshes, along shores, and sometimes open swamps.
a close-up to the not-kawaii-because-can-kill-you flower,
also, look at that stem, that totally says you to don’t touch it, to don’t be in their neighborhood, don’t.
Oh and we have the poison Ivy.
Poison Ivy is a poisonous-to-the-touch plant that grows in open woods, rocky areas, and fields. All parts are poisonous. ALL PARTS. they’re like us, we don’t like to be annoyed, don’t touch.
The oils within the plant cause an allergic reaction in many (but not all) people, that can be quite serious.
How to indentify a Poison Ivy?
The classic way to identify that little fuckers Poison Ivy is the ‘three leaves’ configuration. They’re usually in South Canada, Texas and Florida, btw, here some pictures
yea, look that kawaii leaves all green and colorful and beautiful, but that can kill you
but don’t mistake with raspberry,
the leaves are jagged, and not very glossy
Posion Sumac (Toxicodendron vernix)
This small tree is very poisonous to touch. Some say that it is much more poisonous than Poison Ivy.
Quick ID: Looks like a sumac; grows in wet areas.
AND OF COURSE, SOME POISONOUS BERRIES!
Red Baneberry & White Baneberry (Actaea rubra & Actaea pachypoda)
The berries from these two plants are very poisonous. As few as 5 or 6 of them can make you seriously ill. More can cause death. However, it is unlikely that you will eat very many if you are cautious, as they don’t taste very good – they are very acrid-tasting. Most cases of poisoning are with children.
White Baneberry is also known as “Doll’s Eyes”.
they’re pretty creepy, like you’ll rEALLY EAT THAT?!?
“Note the compound leaves, with toothed leaflets.
Red Baneberry berries are sometimes white, making identification of these two plants difficult for novices.
White Baneberry berries are held on thick stalks, and have a large conspicuous dot at the end of each one.
Red Baneberry berries are held on thin stalks and have a tiny dot at the end of each one.”
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra)
the little berries all mature and poisonous omg note the glossy bright red
Just to confuse identification of this plant, Red Baneberry berries are sometimes white! The way to tell them apart from White Baneberry, is that Red Baneberry berries are on thin stalks and have a tiny dot at the end of each berry.
i don’t think that really matters because both are poisonous but whatvs
Known as cattails or punks in North America and bullrush and reedmace in England, the typha genus of plants is usually found near the edges of freshwater wetlands. Cattails were a staple in the diet of many Native American tribes. Most of a cattail is edible. You can boil or eat raw the rootstock, or rhizomes, of the plant.
yeah, Clovers are edible and they’re found just about everywhere there’s an open grassy area!
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
yes, this is edible. The entire plant is edible- roots, leaves, and flower. Eat the leaves while they’re still young; mature leaves taste bitter. If you do decide to eat the mature leaves, boil them first to remove their bitter taste. Boil the roots before eating as well. You can drink the water you boiled the roots in as a tea and use the flower as a garnish for your dandelion salad.
btw, extra information and tips.
The following plants can cause ingestion poisoning if eaten:
Poison and water hemlocks.
All mushrooms. Mushroom identification is very difficult and must be precise, even more so than with other plants. Some mushrooms cause death very quickly. Some mushrooms have no known antidote. Two general types of mushroom poisoning are gastrointestinal and central nervous system.
basically, DON’T GO THERE EATING EVERYTHING THAT LOOK LIKE A BERRY OR BLUEBERRIES OR JUST EVERYTHING BECAUSE EVERYTHING’S NOT SAFE ok every plant it’s not poisonous but TAKE CARE.
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