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troutaddict

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Recognize this plant?
« on: July 11, 2010, 06:43:01 PM »
Did some hiking this weekend.  Super hot and sticky.  Saw tons of this plant.  Most you probably know but there might be a few that's never see it.

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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2010, 10:36:28 PM »
Quote from: troutaddict on July 11, 2010, 06:43:01 PM
Did some hiking this weekend.  Super hot and sticky.  Saw tons of this plant.  Most you probably know but there might be a few that's never see it.



I would say polk weed.

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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010, 12:08:50 AM »
some folks call it a delicacy!  ;)
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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2010, 05:29:31 AM »
My grandmother used to pick and eat polk salad al the time.
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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2010, 07:04:22 AM »
Yep, my mind took a journey to 'yester year' while on the hike.  I remembered my grand parents and their eating of 'poke salad' or as they said 'poke sallet'.  They would eat what they called Creasy's salad and sometimes a Dandelion salad.  I remember I would be so embarrassed that I had to take food like homemade biscuits and country ham for lunch and all the other guys would have such delicacies  like a bologna sandwich.  ;D
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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2010, 08:57:42 AM »
That plant is poison. Never understood why anyone would eat it knowing it can kill.
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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2010, 09:44:36 AM »
It can be eaten if prepared and eaten at the right time. (the stalk is always poisonous).

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/196945/tradition_or_insanity_why_do_we_eat.html?cat=22
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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2010, 10:08:55 AM »
Can you smoke it maybe  ;D
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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2010, 01:39:02 PM »
Never ate any myself and I'll have to say never tried to smoke it....   Wonder if it has any medicinal purpose, with the toxins?  ;D
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Re: Recognize this plant?
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2010, 06:54:01 AM »
It's picked at a younger age, before the berries come out, good stuff.

Polk salad Annie, gator got your granny.

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