Foraging in Central Park - Nov 19, 2000
Based on a tour given by "Wildman" Steve Brill in Central Park, Manhattan.
1: Wild raisin, close up.
2: Wild raisin
3: Jet berry, poisonous.
4: Multi-floral rose with mold on the rose hips.
5: Wrinkled rose, Wildman sbout to eat a rose hip.
6: Wrinkled rose, the only flower left.
7: Wrinkled rose. Note feathered compound leaves.
8: Witch hazel
9: Epazote
10: Poor man's pepper
11: Black nightshade, poisonous.
12: Lamb's quarters (not on tour). Also white snake root in upper right.
13: White snakeroot gone to seed. Poisonous.
14: Hawthorne
15: Hawthorne closeup
16: Hawthorne berry with larva inside
17: Lady's thumb
18: Dandelion. Okay to eat now.
19: Wildman looking at snakeroot flower.
20: Northern bay berry (male)
21: Mulberry tree
22: Japanese knotweed
23: Japanese knotweed shoots. Will come up and be edible next spring.
24: Mugwort
25: 1st year burdock. Root can be dug up.
26: 2nd year burdock. Not edible. Note burrs.
27: Burdock roots some people dug up.
28: Kentucky coffee tree pod and seed.
29: Kentucky coffee tree. The pods up in the tree will fall in the spring.
30: Garlic mustard, 1st year.
31: Smaller mugwort
32: Violets
33: Violet seed pod. Not edible.
34: Field garlic
35: Sassafras tree trunk
36: Sassafras saplings
37: Raspberry bush
38: Raspberries. These not ripe yet. There were a few ripe ones way in the back of the bunch.
39: Smooth sumac
40: Smooth sumac berries
41: Crabapple tree. The brown ones are ripe.
42: Gingko berries
43: Gingko leaves
44: Red juneberry
45: Red juneberry closeup
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