Wild Edible Plant - Blueberry

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its mission any survival today we're going to talk about blueberries don't go away

okay so I you find blueberries growing in three main stages we have a low shrub right here say it's about knee high maybe waist tie the most usual about knee-high and then we have a very low growth where it's only a few inches some more right here off the ground maybe six inches the most okay so we have low growth blueberry we have shrubs and see a pretty definite mark over here to where it changes right here so all this is low growth blueberries it's a full carpet of it just absolutely litter with blueberries through here and then right back in here is there's one right there like a blueberry it's not really a it's totally shrub it's really like a like a little tree or or a bush really so let me walk over here now you're going to notice some Pines Pines make very acidic soil with all the pine needles on the ground and blueberries like that so you should usually find them in in Pine Ares okay so this right here there's all blueberry as well seeing it's been picked a lot but it's still some left here's one right here now it's important when you when you're checking to make sure you have blueberry that it has this crown on the bottom of the berry because there are some berries that look like blueberries but they're not blueberries unless they have this crown ok so has any trick you can do to your stick give a walking stick or just fashion one on the spot put a little hook in it so you can grab branches further away from you pull them toward you that helps a lot when you're gathering berries okay so this one cluster actually it's kind of a microcosm of what's going on with the plant so let me zoom in a little bit here and you'll see huh maybe there we go sorry about that okay so it starts off green you can see the crown right away gets larger and then it turns from green on its way to purple kind of has us in between right here last is purple which is a sweetest and best okay so let's take submit to gather them up and obviously it's a blueberry so you get someone to taste like slightly bitter sweet delicious good stuff okay so as my Peterson's edible wild plants if you can find on our website nigga survival calm if you go to page two twenty you'll find blueberries all right up top and basically you know you can eat them fresh they blueberries you know eat them fresh and filaments of Bannack cook them now you can also dry them it says which I have never done and obviously jelly so the berries have five calc slopes forming a star pattern I like to think of that as a crown pattern like I showed you before and this is where the picture is on the other page top right

blueberry right here and it's pointing to the star pattern or crown pattern on the bottom now the leaves are elliptical so that's something to look out for and usually pretty smooth you're not really tooth usually and if they are it's very very small enough okay this is what the leaves look like furthest to the left the smallest one right here is the low growth blueberries and the berries are really small nose the berries seem to be proportionate size of the plants like the leaves the middle which is my favorite are the small little bushes like these maybe about you know about knee-high those berries are the sweetest they're amazing love those so that's the second leaf the largest leaf is this plant right here the largest blueberry plant out here and the berries are really big like this big and they're all proportionate so then when you go to the middle size they shrink down a little bit and then the small size the berries are really tiny and it purple they're ready to go which is really really small so it's kind of interesting that there's you know usually I find is three sizes and the leaves and the fruit are proportionate to those sizes but I find the middle to be the best which is great cuz it's actually the most common that there's a section of woods so maybe half a mile from here that is oh man it's got to be Polly at least two to three acres of justice on the ground it's just absolutely choked with blueberries amazing amazing spot I gather tons every year

I appreciate your views your comments in your support I'll see you guys the next video take care