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          PLANTS ETC. OF THE SOUTH: EX: MEXICO ETC.

          BENEATH COASTAL PINES. TROPICAL REGION: 

If wild life and plants are rich in food source they still
represent more danger that you have to beware.

IN TROPICAL AREA THE COLOUR RED IS ALWAYS A DANGER SIGNAL & A
GOOD RULE IS TO AVOID ALL  BERRIES.

BAMBOO STEAMER!:

The compartmented sections of Bamboo also make an Excellent
Steamer. Make a comparatively small hole between the sections,
but big enough to let water through to fill the bottom section.

Make a lid not too tight for the top. Water boiled in the lowest
section will produce steam to cook food in the top one.

PLANTS & LEAVES WARNING:

The colour RED associated with a plant in Tropical or
Sub-Tropical areas can be regarded as a DANGER SIGNAL.

Any plants that show red in any parts of its growth in its
fruits, in its leaves or in its stalks should be regarded with
suspicion unless you know for certain that it is absolutely safe.

SO UNLESS YOUR ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE BETTER NOT TAKE A CHANCE.

This is particularly applicable to Tropical Berries and fruits.

ANOTHER GENERAL SIGN OF PROBABLE POISON IS ANY FRUIT WHICH IS
DIVIDED INTO 5 DIVISIONS.

This a generalisation but better cautious than overbold and dead.

                    BEWARE! COLOURED SAP:

OF ALL TREES WHICH HAVE A COLOURED SAP, WHITE, RED OR BLACK.

Many of these saps are a danger signal and some particularly the
white saps can inflict painful burns to skin or if allowed in the
eye can cause blindness.

Also Beware of the Ground Trefoils* particularly those which have
little corns or tubers they are often poisonous.

WATER FROM PLANTS & VINES:    TRY THIS METHOD!

On a vine at its highest peak, make a deep cut, then:  Cut the
vine very close to ground level and let the water run into your
mouth or in a container. When the water ceases to run, start all
over the same method till the vine runs out.

TROPIC PLANT:

In the TROPIC ***there is the *#Guayaba Tree# which produces a
yellowish seedy fruit about the size of crab apple VERY GOOD TO
EAT in Winter month.*

TROPICAL FOOD:

SURVIVORS IN THE TROPICS HAVE SAFELY EATEN ALL FRUITS AND PARTS
OF PLANTS WHICH WERE FED ON BY BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 

THERE IS SCARCELY ANY KIND OF INSECT WHICH A SURVIVOR COULD NOT
SAFELY EAT.

CACTUS & WATER: 

You can peel cactus leaves and retrieve the thin layer of core
pulp which is full of moisture and can be used as a source of
water in an emergency

PINON  FOR THE EATING: * 

Found in area of New Mexico they are soft delicate nuts that
resemble peanuts in appearance are found in the cones of the
short gnarled pines of the arid south-western highlands.

They are flavourful raw, even more delicious roasted, and have a
delicately nutty sweetness when pounded into flour & baked.

MINER'S LETTUCE: *

This salad plant whose crisp leaves & stems can be also boiled as
greens & is easy to distinguish.

Just look for a small green plant with flowers stems growing from
a short mass of leaves at ground level.

The clinching feature is that part way up each stem a pair of
leaves grows together so as to form a sort of cup through whose
middle the stalk continues. It is eaten to cure or avoid Scurvy.
Enjoyed in Spring found in damp locations beneath the coastal
Pines.

A few of the larger & thicker plants are filled with enough
watery sweetish juice to be Vital under survival conditions for
quenching thirst

LIST OF VENOMOUS PLANTS FOR TROPICS:

#MANGLIER BLANC#:

This plant has white leaves carrying white berries growing in
swamps, estuary or mouth of rivers and along the coast.

If you touch the sap your skin will cover up in blisters. If sap
gets in your eyes you will be BLIND.

#CHERRY OF ANTILLES# *:

Plant with 3 leaves with purple flowers coming down, its tusks or
shells are soft but its hair cause irritations and blisters &
BLINDNESS if in contact with the eyes. It grows in thickets and
groves but NEVER in full forest.

NETTLE: 

This plant very numerous most particularly in Swamps or around
them. Its dented leaves are venomous to the touch and cause a
burning sensation.** YET IT'S GOOD TO EAT.

#STRAMOINE# :*

Also found in Temperate Regions along roads or cultivated lands
especially SOYA* fields. Its flower a whitish violet has the form
of trumpet. Its leaves have axed edges and it has shell or pod
that are prickly.

ALL PARTS ARE VENOMOUS SPECIALLY ITS SEEDS.

#PANGI#:  (CAUTION)

It is a climbing plant, with leaves in form of heart growing
especially in Malasia jungle. Its seeds contain prussic acid that
is TOXIC when eaten raw, yet EDIBLE when cooked.

#PIGNON D'INDE# *:

It is a shrub which leaves look like maple leaves and its seeds
are a powerful laxative.

#RICIN# :*

Leaves of this shrub look strangely like the top of a miniature
palm tree. Grows in grove & #clairiere#. Its seeds are toxic and
laxative (Ricin oil) and  mature in grapes.

#CORNOUILLER#: (TROPIC)

Grows wild most everywhere under the tropics. Its fruits are
white and yellow and most attractive resembling to an orange. Its
skin is most bitter.

ITS SEEDS CONTAINS ONE OF THE MOST DEADLY POISON KNOWN TO HUMAN
CALLED: STRYCHNINE.

COCONUT:

Although wild in T/R it is found also in North America. Opening
them without a machete is very easy to know how:

You pry off the tough husk in strips by thrusting the nut
downward against a hard sharpened stick anchored in the ground.

WEST INDIAN PLANT OKRA:

Cultivated for the seed pods which is used as vegetables and in
soups.

AZTEC PLANT AMARANTH:  SOUTH. AMERICA:

This Aztec plant was used up till the 16th century and now is
back.

THIS PLANT RESISTS EXTENDED DROUGHT PERIODS AND IS HIGHLY
NUTRITIONAL and was cultivated in Central and South America about
8,000 years ago & was a major staple of Aztec diet.

Amaranth leaves which ARE EDIBLE and taste like spinach remains
soft and tender right through summer and flour from the plant's
nut flavoured seeds can be used in bread & pastries.

IRISH MOSS = SEX BOOSTER:

All around booster from old African knowledge called Irish Moss
which is like a porridge, it put lead into the old man. 

BANANA:   (Going banana MMM!??)

REMEMBER that Banana leaves which are full of oil, makes an
excellent frying pan. Place over hot embers and crack the egg
onto the leaf. If a boiled egg contains an embryo chick remove
the embryo and roast it.

SAGO:

Proper Sago comes from the Sago palm, but Buri, Sugar, Fishtail
and in the American Tropics, Cabbage palms can be used in the
same way. The average Sago Palm yields about 275kg (600lb) of
Sago-enough to feed 1 person for a year.

Cut down the palm at the base of the trunk, trim off the tip just
below the last flowering line. Divide a large trunk into section.

Cut length-wise-hard work, for the outer bark is 5cm (2in) thick
and hard as bamboo. Using each section as trough, pound pith into
a mash.

Then knead in a container of water, the bole of the trunk will do
and strain through a cloth. A starchy paste will precipitate in
the water. Roll this into sticky balls & cook.

PALM SAP:

Palm sap is extracted from flowering parts, not the trunk. Choose
a fat stalk carrying a flowering head at the base of the crown of
the trunk. Bruise with a club to stimulate the flow of sap, then
cut off the head.

Sweet juice will flow from the end of the stalk. 1.5 litre (3pts)
per day. Bruise and cut daily to stimulate the flow.

Drink Raw or boil then cool it to produce toffee like lumps of
almost pure sugar. Sugar, Nipa, Coconut and Buri palms can all be
used in the same way.

You pry off the tough husk in strips by thrusting the nut
downward against a hard sharpened stick anchored in the ground.

