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