(05-27-2023, 07:42 AM)loam Wrote:(05-27-2023, 05:06 AM)kdog Wrote: No, not the gummy thc kind. Wild plants growing in the woods.
As a child spending many years roaming the woods of South Carolina I would find various plants and berries and try them out. No one to show me, just trial and error. Stayed away from red berries and mushrooms. I was young, but not dumb.
But I would try different things I found out there. Most pretty good. I'm having a hard time finding the actual names of these native plants that I gave names to. Bullet seeds is a sort of grape with a big seed in the middle that I could shoot at my friends as we climbed the trees to get them . Persimmon was really good. Sour weed was kind of like a grass like plant with a stalk that was sour. There are many other edibles I discovered that didn't kill me.
I was a kid figuring out all this stuff on my own. Makes you wonder how much people before us knew and figured out but was lost or dismissed.
Anyways, I am going down this rabbit hole trying to figure out some of the plants and berries I use to snack on and it's frustrating because I made up names for them .
I've heard good things about the PictureThis app.
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I think I do have this app and currently don't live in SC, but in Kentucky. When I visit my parents there, I won't have the time to visit my old forest as they live somewhere different. I have used it up here when camping and hiking and it has been helpful.
(05-27-2023, 08:12 AM)Ninurta Wrote: At first I thought the "bullet seeds" might be Scuppernongs, but those have 4 or 5 seeds each, not one. Sounds a little like lychee or longans, but I don't know of anywhere they grow wild in the US. I think some are grown in Florida, and I know of a Buddhist monastery in Greensboro, NC, where they are grown, but have never seen them in the wild here. They're kind of like really big grapes, but with just a single seed and a leathery peel not like grape peels.
I used to eat something that looked like clover but was sour like sour candy... but it looked like clover, not like a grass.
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Muscadine or scuppernongs are what I described as bullet seeds . My memory may have failed me as it was 50 years ago. Could of had more seeds.
Now the sour weed was probably 6 to 12 inches tall with a semi purple stalk and green leaves and small flowers at the top. Just a single stalk.