Foraging in Forest Park - July 04, 2001
Foraging in Forest Park, Queens. Based on a tour given by "Wildman" Steve Brill.
1: Burdock.
2: Burdock root.
3: Wood sorrel.
4: Common nightshade - Poisonous.
5: Plantain.
6: Wineberry. A couple weeks too early.
7: Garlic mustard seeds.
8: Garlic mustard seeds.
9: Poison ivy.
10: Wineberry.
11: Burdock, 2nd year.
12: Berkeley's polypore mushroom. Too old to eat. Now tough and bitter.
13: Berkeley's polypore mushroom. Too old to eat. Now tough and bitter.
14: Most likely a winter polypore, Polyporus brumalis, a non-edible species.
15: Turkey tail mushroom. Not edible.
16: Common spice bush. Berries not ready until Fall. Can crush leaves and make tea.
17: Common spice bush. Berry closeup.
18: Jewelweed patch.
19: Jewelweed close up. See the jewels sparkle?
20: Red cracked bolete.
21: Two color cracked bolete. Choice.
22: Another bolete. Turning blue quickly. No good to eat.
23: Two color bolete. Turns blue slowly.
24: Two color bolete. Turns blue slowly.
25: Earth ball mushroom. Will be black insider. Poisonous. (Push ball are white inside.)
26: Plater file mushroom. Terrible tasting.
27: Indian pipe. Not edible. No chlorophyl. So is white. Is parasitic.
28: Milky mushroom. One of the best mushrooms, says Wildman.
29: Milky mushroom.
30: Milky mushroom.
31: Fawn mushroom. Awful tasting.
32: Russula mushroom.
33: Chanterelle.
34: Artist's conk mushroom. Too tough to eat. Can stratch on it and draw.
35: Small garlic mustard.
36: Black birch. Chew on twigs. Like wintergreen.
37: Black birch. Chew on twigs. Like wintergreen.
38: Grape leaves.
39: Black raspberry. Stem has bluish powder on it.
40: Black raspberry closeup.
41: Chicken mushroom.
42: Sassafras tree trunk.
43: Sassafras leaves.
44: Berkeley's polypore.
45: Blushers, amanetas. Don't eat, as it is too close to a deadly one.
46: Red cracked bolete.
47: Two colored bolete. Choice.
48: Russula. Tasteless.
49: Amanita. White variation of cleft foot. Turns brown. Very poisonous.
50: Chestnut bolete. Doesn't turn color. Can eat.
51: Green quilted russula. Good to eat.
52: Bitter boletes.
53: Red mouthed bolete. Makes you sick.
54: Pokeweed. Edible in Spring if prepared properly.
55: Chicken mushrooms.
56: Chicken mushrooms.
57: Chicken mushrooms.
58: Immature black walnut.
59: Mulberry.
60: Mulberry. Closeup.
61: Sweet cicely. A little late in the year with ..?
62: Sweet cicely. A closeup.
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