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#Swellvember #survivalist #innerbark #bark #tree #wildedible #foodsource Survivalists are everywhere now it seems. All kinds of reality shows n shit. Think my dad was one before there was a term for it. One of the earliest ones I can remember was eating tree bark. Most pines and various other trees like some #spruce and #yellowbirch have an edible inner bark that can help you #survive in the #wild The idea as a kid was crazy to me, but our ancestors did it for God knows how long. But the 5 necessities of survival were pretty much drilled into me and hell, was still a conversation as I was an adult. It became one of those hey, look here for MREs or did you see this new filtration straw and shit like that...kinda wish I could go back to being just so high and hearing all this for the first time again... https://www.instagram.com/p/CHd6rYNJRTz/?igshid=3mg3ibxkxgi0

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Prunus serotina, Black Cherry

Community: New England Barrier Beach

Native Region: Eastern U.S., Midwest, Central and South America, Eastern Canada (introduced 1629)

Mature Size: height: 50-80′, spread: 30-60′

Habitat: river or stream floodplains, forests, deep, moist, fertile soil, but often grows on drier, sandy soil in the uplands

Hardiness Zone: 3 to 9

Leaves: lustrous dark green leaves that turn yellow to red in fall

Flowers white:

Fruit: red cherries that ripen to dark purple-black

Toxic: humans, very bitter fruit and seeds

Fruit can be eaten raw or cooked in pies, jellies, and stews, and it can taste bitter or sweet. The fruit can also be used as a flavoring. The seed can eaten raw or cooked. An infusion of the twigs can be used as a beverage. An extract from the bark is also used as a flavoring in soft drinks, sweets, syrups and baked goods. Its seeds and leaves contain high quantities of hydrogen cyanide, so any very bitter seed or fruit should not be consumed.

Fruit: humans, songbirds, turkey, chickens, grouse, passerine birds, bears, fox, raccoons, opossum, squirrels, rabbits

Inner Bark: humans

Leaves: deer

Twigs: deer

Toxic: leaves, twigs, bark, and seeds are poisonous to livestock, and seeds and leaves in excess can be toxic to humans

Seed Dispersal: gravity, birds, mammals

Collect Seeds: fall

https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/prunus/serotina/

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=g100

https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/pruser/all.html

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=prse2

http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Prunus+serotina

Dirr, Michael. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants : Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation, and Uses. Champaign, Ill.:Stipes Pub., 2009. Print. 890.