wow! at first i was excited to go get some because i knew i have seen plants that look like that, but now after seeing the huge number of plants that look pretty much the same there's no chance i would ever try to eat that
I just found a water hemlock plant in my field near the woods, and as I was watching this video, I was surprised at the similarity of the flowers. But the hemlock stalk is dark, kind of pale reddish purple, especially at the base of the plant. And you would want to really look at the leaves. The edible ones seemed to have a long slender leaf, while the water hemlock has a kind of ferny arrangement of leaves. (I am not being technical.) Personally, I am staying away from plants like this, just to be safe, because I am not smart enough to trust myself.
The flowers look the same, but the roots, which is what you would eat, look completely different. i really don't see how you could mistake one for the other.
@@bluesteel8376 Yampa is very easy to tell apart for me. It's similar to hemlock on the surface, but quite distinctive really. And the plant stems/leaves have a distinctive smell. Of course I don't know what hemlocks smells like, so I can't comment on if it smells the same. I've always known since a child what hemlock looks like and to avoid it at all costs. And it doesn't even grow in the same type of places as yampa, at least in my area. In this area hemlock seems to like wet areas with fairly clean running water and you'll find the yampa in grassy fields and sagebrush steppe areas. My grandpa used to dig yampa roots and taught me about it as a child. However I've never heard it called yampa here, I've always heard it called "epos", or more specifically pronounced as "aye - paws". I never even knew how to spell the word until finding it on accident when reading about wild edibles online years ago.
I don't know if this grows where you live, but another poisonous plant that has been making inroads in the U.S. is giant hogweed. These can also look like queen anne's lace or wild parsnip when young, but this plant has oils that cause scarring blisters, skin sensitisation to the sun, and those symptoms can last for years after exposure. If a person with the oil on the hands rubs the eyes, it can cause blindness.
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BTW since you seem to live in W. Oregon, Salal berries are plentiful and seem to have good harvest reguardless of weather. I grew up making a sauce from them. Straining the seeds out though a sieve or cloth makes it much better.
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Awesome Shawn. Thanks. I occasionally eat cow parsnip. Not sure if the others grow here. King of have an abundance of garden veg if you know what I mean.
Gosh, I would stay away from plants that are so similar to poisonous ones! I'm not confident in my identification skills. Thanks for your interesting and educational videos :)
A good little limmerik to memorize for foragers is "Vein to the tip [of the leaves] all is hip vein to the cut [as in the valleys in between the leaf tips] pain in the gut." It helps to identify water and poison hemlock to prevent mistaking them for their benign lookalikes. Still, excercise EXTREME caution when foraging for Yampa or Wild Carrot, cause their lookalikes are extremely deadly.
foragers are always like "foraging is a grate thing and feeding yourself of of the land is one of my favorite past times" but in the next sentence they say something like "here is a delicious plant, make sure it's slightly brown as the ones that are a darker shade of slightly brown will kill you within 3-6 minutes and release your google search history to your mother."
No because if you ingest it it will poison you and the toxin may not be destroyed by cooking. Arrow poisons are toxic when injected but are neutralized by cooking, stomach acid, or can't be absorbed by the digestive system.
Wild carrot is abundant in eastern US. I have seen fennel before in California. Its scent is unmistakable and has medicinal properties. Didnt know about yamah. Did I spell that right? LOL Anyway, loving your vids. Recently found your channel, have subbed and am watching them from your earlier post on up. So far thumbs up on them all
My question is , although the flower looks alike do the roots as well. Is it possible to check the root to confirm if it is the root one ? Or,..... Are all the root the same as well?
There is a plant that looks very similar to that plant here in Ireland maybe a relative of that plant somehow , but I will not be testing them out after watching all the look a likes in this video .
