Foraging in Prospect Park - Nov 13, 1999
Foraging in Prospect Park. These pictures were actually taken a week later, but are based on a "Wildman" Steve Brill tour given on 13 Nov 99. It follows the tour, but not all are included. I couldn't find some, and others were skipped as they appear in Cunningham Park.
1: Amaranth
2: Amaranth
3: Amaranth. Maybe easier to see with a contrasting background.
4: Amaranth
5: Hedge Mustard
6: Yew. The park has lots of big Yew bushes, but there were no berries this year.
7: Field Garlic (Wild Onion). A nice big clump.
8: Common Wood Sorrel. The heart shaped leaf distinguishes it from clover.
9: Gout Weed
10: Gout Weed. It really is all over the park!
11: Prickly Ash
12: Prickly Ash. A close up of the trunk.
13: Prickly Ash. Another close up of the trunk.
14: Burdock. Not many good ones left to take pictures of. Did the tour participants harvest them all?
15: Burdock. A closeup of a leaf.
16: Burdock. Found elsewhere in the park.
17: Dandelion
18: Chicory
19: Chicory
20: Curly Dock. No good ones left to take pictures of. Did a tour participant come back later and harvest all of it?
21: Curly Dock. A leaf closeup.
22: Gingko seeds
23: Beefstake
24: Beefstake
25: Beefstake. it was windly and to take a closeup I snipped a stem.
26: Beefstake. Closeup of the flower.
27: Wild Lettuce
28: Witch Hazel
29: Purple Flowering Raspberry.
30: Purple Flowering Raspberry.
31: Osage Orange. Not edible but reputed to repel roaches.
32: Rose Hips. This wasn't on the tour, but I came across it as I was leaving the park.
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