An understanding of Plant Families goes a long way to improving your ability to identify species. When I was first beginning to study botany, I heard that Jimsonweed grew in our local wild areas. I didn't know what Jimsonweed looked like, but I'd read that the plant had long been used...
FORAGING FOR GINKGO (Ginkgo biloba)
Botanists believed that the Ginkgo biloba tree was extinct, but then it was found in a Chinese Buddhist monastery in the 1700s, where specimens were being cultivated. Once it was rediscovered, ginkgo has been cultivated and spread all over the world as an ornamental and street tree. It is popular...
USES OF A WILLOW TREE
The willow tree is widespread throughout North America – in fact, throughout most of the world. The bark has long been used as a medicine, and the soft wood is ideal for countless wood projects. MEDICINE The bark of the younger shoots is strongest, and the bark is easiest to...