Wild Crops

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[edit] What are wild crops or wild food crops?

[edit] Classification of Wild Plants

  • Civilophilic wild plants
  • Civilophobic wild plants

[edit] How to identify wild edible plants and foraging safety

[edit] Finding the plants

[edit] Micronutrients and Uncultivated Crops

[edit] Uncultivated Crops: A source of food for the poor

[edit] Uncultivated Crops and Famines

[edit] High Medicinal value of Uncultivated Crops

[edit] Gender Aspects

[edit] Poisonous Plants

  • California Buckeye (Aesculus californica)
  • Baneberry (Actaea species)
  • Water Hemclock (Cicuta species)
  • Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum)
  • Silktassel Bush (Gayyya elliptica or G. fremontii)
  • Lupine (Lupinus species)
  • Wild Cucumber (Marah oreganus)
  • Poison Oak (Rhus diversiloba)
  • Black Nightingale (Solanum nodiflorum)
  • Blue Witch (S. umbelliferum)
  • California Nutmeg (Torreya californica)

[edit] Edible Blossoms

[edit] Berries

Berries that taste good and are hard to find

Non poisonous berries that its better the animals ate them for supper

[edit] Nuts

[edit] Edible Oil

[edit] Tubers

[edit] Wild fruits

[edit] Specialised items like stems, powders extracted from wild sources

[edit] Greens and other vegetables

[edit] Mushrooms and mushrooming

[edit] Seaweeds and their seasons

[edit] Teas, seasonings and other medicinal plants

[edit] Trek and trail nibbles

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[edit] Why should one know about wild edible plants?

[edit] Why are traditional food items disappearing at a faster rate? What has made people change their food habits?

  • Deforestation
  • Changing human lifestyle and taste
  • Development in transport system
  • Negligence of traditional methods

[edit] References

[edit] See Also

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