Do not trust plant id apps to determine if anything is edible, for a start. The odds of a painful death are just too high. There is no substitute for actually learning plant id fundamentals.
Yeah absolutely. A few plant IDs I’ve tried have said very confidently that a plant is a specific thing, but then after reading descriptions and checking the scientific name it’s very clearly not that. It does generally give a good place to start though. So maybe it’s not black cohosh but it leads me to find out it’s bugbane, for instance.
I have eaten some things I’ve foraged, but only things I’ve checked and double checked don’t have any dangerous lookalikes. Thankfully it’s hard to go wrong with a blackberry vine.
Plant ID has its own drawbacks, now I’m actually aware of the major invasive species in my region and I see them everywhere now.
At least I have some cute wild carrots.
Do not trust plant id apps to determine if anything is edible, for a start. The odds of a painful death are just too high. There is no substitute for actually learning plant id fundamentals.
Anyone who dies trusting this shit with their lives was murdered by silicon valley grifters. Man slaughtered by grifters?
Yeah absolutely. A few plant IDs I’ve tried have said very confidently that a plant is a specific thing, but then after reading descriptions and checking the scientific name it’s very clearly not that. It does generally give a good place to start though. So maybe it’s not black cohosh but it leads me to find out it’s bugbane, for instance.
I have eaten some things I’ve foraged, but only things I’ve checked and double checked don’t have any dangerous lookalikes. Thankfully it’s hard to go wrong with a blackberry vine.