{"id":38205,"date":"2018-09-24T06:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38205"},"modified":"2018-09-24T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T11:07:35","slug":"botany-the-most-neglected-subject-in-survival-and-why-you-could-die-from-not-understanding-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38205","title":{"rendered":"Botany: The Most Neglected Subject in Survival (and Why You Could Die From Not Understanding It)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Botany: The Most Neglected Subject in Survival (and Why You Could Die From Not Understanding It)<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"Regarding<\/center>One of the most neglected things regarding survival in the wilderness are resources to properly identify different plants, animals, and other natural resources that might aid you. Regarding the plant kingdom, there\u2019s a fine line between foraging for food<\/a> and unknowingly causing your own demise. This is because there are many plant species out in the wild that are downright poisonous<\/a>. You need an edge and need to know what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n

Do-it-Yourself Botany: Plant Identification and Four Must-Have Resources for Your Survival Library<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lupine can be mistaken for chicory. Some plants, such as poison oak, ivy, or sumac are dangerous to you if they come in contact with the skin, and also if they\u2019re accidentally burned over a campfire and the smoke inhaled. The first article that I wrote<\/a> for Ready Nutrition was a review of the book \u201cEat the Weeds<\/a>\u201d that gave a listing of all the weeds that are fit and nutritious for consumption.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to recommend another reference that I found recently that will be a great addition to your preparation library. It is an easy-to-use resource that is very comprehensive in nature and an excellent instructional manual.\u00a0\u201c<\/b>Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification<\/a>,\u201d<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>is written by Thomas J. Elpel, and this stresses identification by the plant family, and then narrowing it down to the individual plant.<\/p>\n

The book gives the history and structure of plants and then how to identify the different families of plants, finishing off with an entire reference guide with the in\u2019s and outs of each kind. This includes trees and ferns, as well as your standard flowering species. Elpel goes into great detail of the differences between Monocots and Dicots, and flower shape and structure to identify first the family and then the individual plant.<\/p>\n

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Botany: The Most Neglected Subject in Survival (and Why You Could Die From Not Understanding It) One of the most neglected things regarding survival in the wilderness are resources to properly identify different plants, animals, and other natural resources that might aid you. Regarding the plant kingdom, there\u2019s a fine line between foraging for food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10160,12881,21853,6787,17326],"class_list":["post-38205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-botany","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-plant-identification","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-survival-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38206,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38205\/revisions\/38206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}