a walk around a local "forest", taking photos w/ google lens for tree/plant identification.
peach palm, edible, can propagate from seed or suckers:
rosary pea, evil, insanely lethal, 1 seed can kill a human:
zombie palm.. that's cool:
gomortega, if so: produces a large yellow sweet fruit:
psychotria nervosa, florida "wild coffee" <-- but not coffee, gives you headaches + no caffeine:
eagle fern .. hundreds or thousands of these in one spot, looks awesome .. here's just one:
coccothrinax miraguama. this has TONS of bees on it. was nuts. apparently this is going to be a big palm tree:
quercas incana. apparently this is going to be a big oak tree:
nageia nagi aka asian bayberry: (edible oils from berries/leaves potentially)
persian silk tree. this one was epic, felt like silk!!!!
seagrape:
african oil palm. the principal source of "palm oil", cool !
golden thryallis, intense yellow flowers from spring to frost:
manchineel aka "little apple of death" .. god damn. toxic as fuck fruit:
When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat." Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump
strangler fig .. uh the info about strangler figs is kinda nuts.
devil's ivy: