What kinda plant is this? Can I eat it?

[bowhuntaz1]

that is devils claw - it is not jimson loco weed

 

devils claw has the long curved bulbs- unicorn plant some say it looks like elephant tucks - it is edible

 

jimson weed has a big white flower and a thorn/ porcupine bulb that can cause halucinations and even death

 

Bunch of that all over out there...

[bowhuntaz1]

Good to see you back Lark.... I always look forward to your postings...

[JLW]

Along the Salt River...

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pick this book up.

talks about primary edible plants...............

so many things are edible... also so many plants that are diuretic and will dehydrate you if you eat too much.

http://www.amazon.com/Sonoran-Desert-Food-Plants-Deserts/dp/0977133362

 

James

[.270]

Jimson weed and loco weed are not the same thing. Don't look at all similar. We always called Jimson stink weed, because it does. It gets big green leaves and white trumpet shaped flowers. Loco has transparent bladder pods. It's quite recognizable. Both of them do well in dry years and that's when they're dangerous because there ain't much else to eat. Loco is real hard on horses and they seldom recover fully. I knew a guy that ate some. He didn't recover either. Still Goofy as a pet coon last I heard.

Bill, I bought an old ranch under the rim below rose peak. Come by sometime. Lark.

[elkaholic]

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimson_weed
"Datura stramonium, also called Jimson Weed, Loco Weed, Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple, Angel's Trumpet, and Zombie's Cucumber is a common poisonous weed in the Nightshade Family. It contains tropane alkaloids that are sometimes used as a hallucinogen. The active ingredients are atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine which are classified as deliriants, or anticholinergics.

[Pine Donkey]

Don't know if it can eaten, or why you would want to eat it, but if it is devil's claw it is what Arizona's native Americans use for dark colors in the baskets they weave..........

 

My wife and I took basket-weaving classes from a Papago woman in the late 1970s, and the first thing we did was collect the devil's claw and other materials for our baskets. I can tell you that whatever price they ask for a basket, it is worth it! My wife and I each spent more that 100 hours on the baskets we made.............

 

I decorated my basket with silhouettes of bighorns around the sides and was flattered when our teacher offered to buy mine. I was the first man to take her class, she said. .......

 

Bill

Bill, this class is now offered at ASU and is an under graduate favorite within the athletic department!

[.270]

It still ain't the same thing. Jimson is a nightshade. Common name is downy thorn apple. Produces tropane. Some folks call it loco, but they are 2 completely different plants. Loco grows kinda like a vine and has bladder pods on it. Produces stuff called Swainsonine. They're both alkaloids, but lotsa stuff is. Like psylosibin mushrooms.

The 2 plants don't look anything alike. I know what I'm talkin' about. Singleshot's dad taught me all about it in college. I've heard lotsa folks call Jimson, loco, but it ain't. They have sorta the same affect, but loco is much worse. This stuff is dangerous. Wikipedia is a horrible source for most things important. Anybody can edit it. And if you search wiki for locoweed, not Jimson, it'll show you what I'm talking about. Be careful. Lark.