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Sport Specific Training Discussion => Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff => Topic started by: adarqui on April 12, 2020, 11:31:06 pm
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just posting stuff i see. feel free to join in.
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a walk around a local "forest", taking photos w/ google lens for tree/plant identification.
peach palm, edible, can propagate from seed or suckers:
(https://i.imgur.com/veJoaem.jpg)
rosary pea, evil, insanely lethal, 1 seed can kill a human:
(https://i.imgur.com/ourBlDM.jpg)
zombie palm.. that's cool:
(https://i.imgur.com/wud8e0P.jpg)
gomortega, if so: produces a large yellow sweet fruit:
(https://i.imgur.com/tycSwvK.jpg)
psychotria nervosa, florida "wild coffee" <-- but not coffee, gives you headaches + no caffeine:
(https://i.imgur.com/lECkVd5.jpg)
eagle fern .. hundreds or thousands of these in one spot, looks awesome .. here's just one:
(https://i.imgur.com/U4eYWnc.jpg)
coccothrinax miraguama. this has TONS of bees on it. was nuts. apparently this is going to be a big palm tree:
(https://i.imgur.com/0UIePm0.jpg)
quercas incana. apparently this is going to be a big oak tree:
(https://i.imgur.com/o1d6HOl.jpg)
nageia nagi aka asian bayberry: (edible oils from berries/leaves potentially)
(https://i.imgur.com/4TQe6q4.jpg)
persian silk tree. this one was epic, felt like silk!!!!
(https://i.imgur.com/9udV2ok.jpg)
seagrape:
(https://i.imgur.com/jk1OhBs.jpg)
african oil palm. the principal source of "palm oil", cool !
(https://i.imgur.com/yht8zVv.jpg)
golden thryallis, intense yellow flowers from spring to frost:
(https://i.imgur.com/0a7Kfx3.jpg)
manchineel aka "little apple of death" .. god damn. toxic as fuck fruit:
When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat." Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump
(https://i.imgur.com/AW4HOZL.jpg)
strangler fig .. uh the info about strangler figs is kinda nuts.
(https://i.imgur.com/25DADWl.jpg)
devil's ivy:
(https://i.imgur.com/Cz9LPlK.jpg)