Wild Berries & Fruits Field Guide of the Rocky Mountain States by Teresa Marrone

Description: Wild Berries & Fruits Field Guide of the Rocky Mountain States by Teresa Marrone This field guide, organized by color and form, features full-color photographs and information to help readers quickly and easily identify and find wild berries and fruits in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Now you can identify wild berries and fruits. Learn whats edible and what to avoid with this easy-to-use field guide. The species in the book are organized by color, then by form, so when you see something in the field, youll know just where to look. Full-page photos and insets show each plants key identification points, while detailed descriptions give you the information you need to know. Teresa Marrone has been gathering and preparing wild edibles for more than 20 years. Let her share that experience with you. Author Biography Teresa Marrone has been gathering and preparing wild edibles for more than 20 years. She was formerly Managing Editor of a series of outdoors-themed books, and is the author of Abundantly Wild: Collecting and Cooking Wild Edibles in the Upper Midwest, as well as numerous other outdoors-related and regional cookbooks. Teresa has also written many magazine articles on wild foods and cooking, and has rekindled an early interest in photography. Wild Berries & Fruits Field Guide of the Rocky Mountain States combines her various skills and interests into a clear, concise, easy-to-use book that helps the user appreciate the diversity of the various wild berries and fruits that grow in this region. Teresa lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Bruce. Table of Contents Introduction About this book The range maps What is a fruit? How fruits are arranged on the stem Leaf form and arrangement Safety and plant identification What is not included in this book Be certain, be safe: Wild grapes Habitat zones in the Rocky Mountain States How to use this book Sample pages The Berries and Fruits Green Yellow Orange Red Purple Blue Black White Helpful Resources and Bibliography Glossary Index About the Author Long Description Now you can identify wild berries and fruits. Learn whats edible and what to avoid with this easy-to-use field guide. The species in the book are organized by color, then by form, so when you see something in the field, youll know just where to look. Full-page photos and insets show each plants key identification points, while detailed descriptions give you the information you need to know. Teresa Marrone has been gathering and preparing wild edibles for more than 20 years. Let her share that experience with you. Excerpt from Book Common Elderberry Sambucus canadensis HABITAT: This native shrub grows in moist areas, such as river and stream banks, woodland edges, shelterbelts, thickets, abandoned fields, roadsides, meadows, and ditch edges. It prefers full sun to part shade, and grows from the plains through the montane zones. GROWTH: An open shrub, 5 to 12 feet in height, with a broad, rounded crown. Branches are yellowish-gray, with numerous warty lenticels (breathing pores); older bark is greenish or gray, streaked with white. White flowers grow in large, showy umbrella-like clusters; stemlets are reddish. When the flowers fall and berries are developing, the plant is easy to spot because of the groupings of rounded, purplish flower stemlets, which have a lacy appearance. LEAVES: Compound leaves, each with 5 to 11 leaflets, grow oppositely on the stem; leaves are 6 to 10 inches long and nearly as wide. Leaflets are 2 to 4 inches long and one-half as wide, broadly oval and tapered on both ends; edges are sharply toothed. The top sides are dark green and smooth; the undersides are paler and may be downy. FRUIT: Round berries, about 3⁄16 inch in diameter with three to five seeds, grow in drooping, flat-topped clusters (cymes). Berries are green when immature, ripening to deep purple or purplish-black; berry stemlets are reddish-purple. The berries are edible, and are juiced to make jelly, jam and wine. Leaves, stems, seeds and all other parts of all elderberry species are toxic. Common elderberry might be confused with other elderberries, whose fruits are generally not eaten; see below. SEASON: Flowers appear in early summer; fruits ripen in mid to late summer. COMPARE: Red elderberry (pg. 154) and Rocky Mountain elderberry (pg. 274) have similar growth and leaves, but their fruits grow in rounded clusters, rather than flat-topped clusters. Red elderberrys fruits are red when ripe; Rocky Mountains are black. Blue elderberry (pg. 238) is very similar to common elderberry, but its ripe fruits are blue; they are edible. NOTES: Some sources list this plant as S. canadensis. Details ISBN1591932815 Author Teresa Marrone Short Title WILD BERRIES & FRUITS FIELD GD Language English ISBN-10 1591932815 ISBN-13 9781591932819 Media Book Format Paperback Residence Minneapolis, MN, US Pages 336 Series Wild Berries & Fruits Identification Guides Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-03-15 Country of Publication United States Imprint Advance Publishing In.,US Place of Publication Houston UK Release Date 2012-03-15 NZ Release Date 2012-03-15 US Release Date 2012-03-15 Illustrations color photos throughout; maps throughout Publisher Advance Publishing In.,US Audience General AU Release Date 2012-03-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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