Is this fireweed:
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Is this fireweed:
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We had many of these plants in our front yard and in my garden. Some grew 7-8 feet high! They came up as volunteers. All these in my yard have died, but I've seen a few small ones growing down the road.Originally Posted by vja4Him
I've read that fireweed is edible. If this is fireweed, how would I prepare for consumption?
just post in your other threads
you now have three
if you go to the previous one, youll see that people have responded with help and info
edit: whoops
thats horseweed actually
made an error
Last edited by crimescene450; 11-24-2010 at 10:20 PM.
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Looks like horseweed is useful as a medicinal plant.
it is horseweed, Conyza canadensis. It's one of my favorite friction fire materials, for the hand drill method.
This shows how widespread and available horseweed is. The ones in my yard look exactly the same.
Couldn't find my picture of live ones, but here's a picture of some I havested for firemaking.
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oh wow i never knew that
im about to try the hand drill. but i harvested mullein
is horseweed easier that mullein?
im using a cottonwood hearth btw
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb
IMO horseweed is easier than mullein. I would put horseweed and wild lettuce together as easy ones, and mullien a little harder than those two. I use mullein, too, and learned it with thumb straps over the top, I have since started a fire using mullein without thumbstraps. Make sure you smooth off the knobs where the leaves attached or you'll get a sore hand!!
The nodes on horseweed and lettuce (where the leaves attach) lend, IMO, to add grip to the stick to help apply downward pressure.
I don't know how to load the pics from my album on here but, I took various pics of berries from trees. I wanted to know if anyone can identify them, & are they edible.
Chari
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Charibelle, here is a link to posting pictures. This may help.
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...ead.php?t=1318
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These are the tree growing berry pics I spoke of earlier.
Chari
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Thanks gryffynklm for the assist.
Chari
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Its gonna be really really hard to ID a deciduous plant at this time of the year. Yiu should probably come back in spring, and take note of the leaves, and flowers.
Also, where does this plant grow? (near water, valleys, etc.)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb
The trees were growing in a roadside ditch near a field. There were willows, & pear, or apple trees, nearby.
Chari
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William Arthur Ward
Those white berries look really familiar. I'll go get my tree book and have a look, but it's east-side so don't expect too much..
Could the white ones be from some sort of Dogwood?
Can I get a better picture of the very bottom of the berries, and the top where the stem connects?
The bark would help also.
and just a wag here, does it have thorns?
Last edited by your_comforting_company; 12-07-2010 at 12:01 AM.
No thorns, but I'll have to shoot them tomorrow.
Chari
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I was thinking hawthorne berries, but most hawthornes have, well.. thorns. The only dogwood listed in my book with white berries is roughleaf dogwood Cornus drummondii. Without leaves or flowers it's gonna be hard to identify. There are lots of trees with white berries. Might have to bust a berry open and describe what's in there.
There are actually two different white berries off of two different trees. Until I can drive to the site I got it I can't tell you more than what I know off the branches. There appears to be vestigial thorns on both branches. because of the picture limits I will talk about one at a time.
The first has smaller berries in larger clumps.
Chari
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The Second has larger berries (2x), also in good size clumps.
Chari
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