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Title: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: mcginnis6010 on June 21, 2012, 04:03:58 pm
Here's some plants/ trees I found today
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: Pat B on June 21, 2012, 04:09:35 pm
The seed pods look like lespadeza, a vine used for eosion control.
The second pic is sumac. I think you can make a "lemonade" type drink from the fruit
The last pic is the fruit of a Bradford pear. It is probably edible but not palatible.
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: mcginnis6010 on June 21, 2012, 04:19:22 pm
Thanks pat yea I thought that was sumac I seen it once before on man,woman wild.
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: Pat B on June 23, 2012, 01:04:00 am
I have to correct myself. The seed pods are Crown Vetch and not lespadeza. It is a vine. Both are used for erosion control and both are legumes.
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: sadiejane on June 23, 2012, 09:48:53 am
sumac leaves was also used by many native north americans in their "tobacco" mixtures
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: H Rhodes on June 23, 2012, 11:27:51 am
sumac will make a lemonade like drink.  I like to boil those berry pods in late summer and make a marinade for catfish fillets, with a little salt, pepper and garlic....  broiled or baked, it comes out tasting fine!
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: RidgeRunner on June 25, 2012, 10:13:00 am
Just for the record... Vetch seeds taste terrible. :o

David
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: cracker on June 25, 2012, 10:18:02 am
also I don't know where you are located but in GA we have poison sumac that acts like poison ivy. Ron
Title: Re: wild plants/trees...edible or no?
Post by: mcginnis6010 on June 25, 2012, 01:00:25 pm
I been drinking sumac lemonade all week and it tastes great especially since its been hotter than any summer I can remember lately. You don't see white sumac/poison sumac too much around where I live as a matter of fact you dont see too much red sumac around here either.