Essential Tips for Safe Plant Foraging

Does Elderberry have lookalikes? I guess it depends on your ID skills. I cannot think of any wild fruit plant that has single compound leaves that are oppositely arranged and look anything like elderberries. Don’t know how to recognize a compound leaf or overall leaf arrangement? It would be best to learn that before foraging for elderberry then. And, you’re in luck, because I have a FREE identification basics class that you can watch right now to learn those things. (The link is in my bio) Reme

“Roses have five flowers.” 🌹 Did that make any sense to you? It probably didn’t; it doesn’t even sound right. However, that’s the equivalent of saying that “poison ivy has three leaves.” ☘️ The common phrase, “Leaves of three, let it be,” is a caution to people so they don’t accidentally touch poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) and is an indication of the plant’s compound leaves with three *leaflets,* NOT the number of leaves on a plant. If you want to learn more about identifying plants with

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