Edible Wild Plants: Common Blackberry - Rubus fruticosus (Wilderness Survival skills and courses)

for more information check out http://www.peak.com/survival the common blackberry # Rubus fruticosus, The astringent blackberry root is sometimes used in herbal medicine as a treatment for diarrhea and dysentery. Blackberries are notable for their high nutritional contents of dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K, folic acid - a B vitamin, and the essential mineral, manganese.

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[shogun6619]

@Imaroughboy2 Birds often eat berries like unripe mulberries that are mildly toxic. Animals have different systems than we do and can eat plants that are poisonous to humans.

[Imaroughboy2]

Watching what the birds eat is at times a good rule of thumb as it pertains to berries.

Good Post !