Its berries are edible raw or cooked. You can make a refreshing tea from its young leaves or dry the leaves and save them for medicinal tea bags.
Bearberry – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
Category: Plant guide
Batoko Plum – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
The Batoko Plum (also known as ramontchi, governor’s plum, or Indian plum) shrub or small tree has a spiny trunk and dark green, alternate, simple, oval leaves attached to drooping branches.
Baobab – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
The baobab, also known as the dead-rat tree, monkey-bread tree, or upside-down tree, tree may grow as high as 18 meters (60 feet) and may have a trunk 9 meters (30 feet) in diameter.
Banana and Plantain – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
Look for bananas and plantains in open fields or margins of forests where they are grown as a crop. They grow in the humid tropics and are native to tropical South and Southeast Asia.
Bamboo – how to identify bamboo and use for food, weapons, tools, shelters, and more
Edible bamboos are woody grasses that grow up to 15 meters (50 feet) tall. The leaves are glasslike and the stems are the familiar bamboos used in furniture and fishing poles.
Bael Fruit – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
Bael fruit is found in rain forests and semi-evergreen seasonal forests of the tropics. It grows wild in India and Burma.
Asparagus – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
The spring growth of this edible plant resembles a cluster of green fingers. The mature plant has fernlike, wispy foliage and red berries. Its flowers are small and greenish in color. Several species have sharp, thornlike structures.
Arrowroot – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
Arrowroot is found worldwide in temperate zones and the tropics. It is found in moist to wet habitats.
Arctic Willow – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
The arctic willow is a shrub that never exceeds more than 60 centimeters (24 inches) in height and grows in clumps that form dense mats on the tundra.
Amaranth – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
All parts are edible, but some may have sharp spines you should remove before eating. The young plants or the growing tips of older plants are an excellent vegetable.
