#wild potato

[vandaliatraveler]

August on the Mon River Trail is marked by towering stands of Joe Pye weed, bowed by the weight of their enormous flowerheads, curtains of bobbing sunflowers, and the creeping tendrils of our beautiful native legumes, including the maroon-flowered groundnut (Apios americana), also known as wild potato and Indian potato, whose edible tubers were once a staple food of Native Americans. But my favorite by far is hairy leafcup (Smallanthus uvedalia), a shrubby, sunflower-like aster that can produce up to one hundred flowers from a single plant. Its enormous leaves, which are opposite and palmately-lobed, are reminiscent of a large animal's paws, which have earned this perennial beauty an alternative common name - bear's foot.

[modfarm]

The Earliest Potato Use In North America Was Not In Idaho

Meet the weird, mostly unknown wild potato.

[gwydionmisha]

Ancient people carried a wild potato across the American Southwest

Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a wild potato. New ev

[sodeartomyheart]

[natural-reflection]

Man of the Earth, Wild Potato, Wild Sweet Potato or Manroot flower Ipomoea pandurata

Concan, Texas, United States, 2015 Garner State Park

[natural-reflection]

Clouded Skipper drinking nectar from a Man of the Earth, Wild Potato, Wild Sweet Potato or Manroot flower Lerema accius / Ipomoea pandurata

Concan, Texas, United States, 2015 Garner State Park

[eng121intothewild]

OUR ARGUMENT!!

We believe that Chris’s death was an accident for many reasons. He had an S.O.S note which can be viewed above that told he was in bad shape and was in dire need of help. Chris had a book on wild plants which explained what plants were edible and which were deadly. Unfortunately, he made a fatal mistake when choosing what to eat because the plant he ingested is non-toxic according to the plant book, but according to research by Ronald Hamilton, the Wild Potato plant is toxic especially to “young men between the ages of 15 and 25 and who are essentially starving or ingesting very limited calories, and who have been engaged in heavy physical activity.” Chris died at the age of 24, so this shows he falls right into that category and he matches all qualities that Hamilton discussed. Another point that leads us to believe that Chris’s death was an accident was how hard he searched and hunted for food; a few of which are in a picture above.

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-chris-mccandless-died

[nybg]

How Chris McCandless Died

Whatever your feelings on Jon Krakauer and Into the Wild, his often divisive book on the life and death of Chris McCandless in the Alaskan wilderness, this article is a fascinating read. It's been over two decades in debate, but Jon and a few others think they've finally found proof that his death by starvation was shoved down the slope by botanical misadventure. Oddly, the culprit behind the long-speculated poisoning may have been a species otherwise regarded as safe—a wild potato plant with a dark secret tortuously related to a program carried out in a little-known World War II concentration camp in Ukraine. If nothing else, the strange story brings the discussion back to the table. Click through for more. —MN