wild plants/trees...edible or no?

[mcginnis6010]

Here's some plants/ trees I found today

[Pat B]

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.

[mcginnis6010]

Thanks pat yea I thought that was sumac I seen it once before on man,woman wild.

[Pat B]

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.

[sadiejane]

sumac leaves was also used by many native north americans in their "tobacco" mixtures

[H Rhodes]

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!

[RidgeRunner]

Just for the record... Vetch seeds taste terrible.

David

[cracker]

also I don't know where you are located but in GA we have poison sumac that acts like poison ivy. Ron

[mcginnis6010]

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.