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There are also many wild edible plant stems. In North America, these include the shoots of woodsorrel (usually eaten along with the leaves), chickweeds, galinsoga, common purslane, Japanese knotweed, winter cress and other wild mustards, thistles (de-thorned), stinging nettles (cooked), bellworts, violets, amaranth and slippery elm, among many others.
Note that the common names of edible bivalves can be misleading, in that not all species known as "cockles" "oysters", "mussels", etc., are closely related. Ark clams , including: Blood cockle; Senilia senilis; Many species of true mussels, family Mytilidae, including: Blue mussels. Blue mussel; California mussel; Mediterranean mussel; Mytilus ...
To employ this strategy, the plant has to be large enough for the mollusc to 'sit' on, so smaller macroscopic plants are not as often eaten as their larger counterparts. [44] Filter feeders are molluscs that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over their gills.
Nautilus shells were popular items in the Renaissance and Baroque cabinet of curiosities and were often mounted by goldsmiths on a thin stem to make extravagant nautilus shell cups. The low fecundity , late maturity, long gestation period and long life-span of nautiluses suggest that these species are vulnerable to overexploitation and demand ...
The Nautilaceae are represented by Nautilus and Allonautilus, genera included in the Nautilidae. Species in the Nautilaceae are generally smooth and involute with straight to strongly sinuous sutures and a small siphuncle. Some groups have sinuous plications or ribs.
A clam shell (species Spisula solidissima) at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve mollusc.The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the sea floor or riverbeds.
Burdock (Arctium spp.) - was introduced to Europe, [12] leaves, flowers and roots are edible [13] Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica spp.) - was introduced to the United States from East Asia, [14] shoots are edible and the roots are used for medicinal purposes [15] Wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris spp.) - invasive, [16] leaves are edible [17]
The leaves of the plant reach out towards the sun and for this reason the plant is sometimes called the Compass Plant. Prickly Lettuce can grow to be from two to five feet tall but should be harvested early on when it is a few inches high. The young leaves of the plant are very tender and make an excellent salad green.