Wild Edible Plant - Chokecherry

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its mission in a survival okay we're going to be talking about chokecherries don't go away ok so in front of me is a choke cherry this is a cherry tree this particular one is choked now you see the leaves very finely two very finely to the fruit grow in what's called a droop basically it's a single stem coming off and all the fruit come off of that now you don't eat the seeds it's a single round seed inside here and the talk of the are like most fruit trees like blackberries etc the better they are the you know the sweeter they are ok so I'm gonna eat this one right here and you do not want to eat the seed because that cyanide in it it's like apples so you just eat the flesh and spit it out so I'm gonna go out and do that now okay there it goes to spit up let's see what does it taste like it's a little stringent in other words it kind of has like a like a drying effect you know just kind of has like almost like a stickiness to it and have another one but uh delicious very good yeah Sully stringent and sweet at the same time usually when something's astringent is really bitter kind of an interesting combination on these L is another one right here pretty much all this is put there's some really nice troops are on this tree right here this is basically you're looking for these troops with all these clusters of berries on them it's a lot on the street and it's just it's definitely has quite a few this there's no question so there's some serious boot value in this there's a nice bridge okay so you can eat them fresh raw just like I just was can make jelly autumn can make fruit leather out of them you can dry them put them in Vanek's whatever you want to do is make sure you give her the seat okay so as my Peterson's edible wild plants which can found on our website in this vile calm and while cherries is on page 2 18 now you're going to see that there's actually quite a few of wild cherries it's three right there so you really need to know which ones are dealing with and you'll notice that one of the easiest ways to tell is how the fruit is grouped and coloring the black cherries and a drupe fire a pin all comes from one central growth off of a twig okay and see if I can find where is it show Carrodus choke is also in a group and its kind of purplish all right so you really need to understand that this more than one so they usually read when they look like this black when they look like this and purple then look like this when they're finished growing when they're finished right okay so while cherries you know basically says that the their glossy the fruit of glossy nearly round solitaire seeds leaves are single a tooth long 20 tips the fog has numerous horizontal streaks I you know it's really hard to tell unless it's a little larger it's not really that prominent yeah so you know you use a fresh and you can smash it up as a jelly or as a fruit leather put in some Bannock and it does mention here that the seeds do contain sorry that the seeds do contain cyanide wilted leaves and fresh seeds contain cyanide gas let's make sure you you spit those out you can find these late summer or early fall which is what it is right now okay so the second book that we use is the trees of North America the guide which can also find on our website and if you go to page 166 under the rose family you'll find those same plants so we have black cherry pin cherry and choke choke cherries down here and I really like this book because it shows where they grow so I know the black is in my area pin is in my arms I'm in the Northeast same with common chokecherry filter is a huge range huge almost all in North America and that's what I have right now in front of me's chokecherry okay so have a good amount here Oh taking more than really two minutes to collect these because they grow and those troops like I was saying so you know you just grab them pull down and you just grab a whole group at a time so very very very simple and quick and easy to gather up a lot of us which is really important I don't want to waste time gathering food because sometimes you don't get the calories back that you put in it takes a long time all right well thanks for joining me today for this chokecherry vid I appreciate your views your comments any support I'll see you guys the next one take care