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Why learn about wild enough to go backpacking? Of course, it's interesting for some of us, but beyond a little knowledge about plants can save your life. This is not just for groceries. The food is really a low priority in most Emergency wilderness. However, there are many other important uses for plants there.

The useful wild plants

Cattails: The bell is one of the most wild plants useful in the desert. Wet or marshy areas around the northern hemisphere, have plants reed and once identified, will never forget. Despite having five parts edible reeds are more than edible plants. Its long leaves are flat used for centuries to make baskets and trays of food. You can enter sleeping mats, and even crude Outerwear.

The Fuzz "from cattail seed head which is one of the first plants that need to learn. The old fluffy seed heads often cling to the top of the stems of the year all year. Put a shine to them and that may catch fire. This can be a life-saver if you do not have matches. Things envelope filled with cattail down and turn yourself in a winter coat, may be savings the number one killer in the wilderness: hypothermia.

Some have also reported the use of cattail as an insect repellent. Just of fuzzy fire will keep burning lint from the seed. This may be more effective than a smoky fire, but it is so easy to collect and burn the fluff cattail worth remembering.

Cassava: Sword-like leaves with pointed ends that these plants are easy to recognize. Some plants may be used as easily to make rope or string. In the California desert that peeled cassava leaves into strips and braid rope in a matter of thirty minutes. With two men on each end pulling hard, we could not break. This is one of the best plants for making ropes and strings (separately lower fiber).

Cassava can also provide needle and thread for emergency repairs. Cut the tip of a leaf cassava, within an inch down and a half. Turn around and you'll be able Peel some of the paper fibers, which remain attached to the needle "or the tip of the blade. I have two foot sections of fiber length in this way, and sewn clothing with them.

Milkweed: Parts are edible with proper preparation, and some people apply the white sap on the warts to get rid of them. Milkweed really useful, however, is shreds of the seed. It is even more flammable than the cattail fluff, so you can use for early fire sparks.

It is a great single, too, even for something as goose down. Fill the bags of bread with milkweed down and those "gloves" keep your hands warm. Insert your hands and tie the bag around your wrist or Tuck it in your sleeve.

Some other useful wild plants? Birch bark is burned better than paper, even when wet. Pop sap blisters on the trees (the young people) and SAP can be used as an antiseptic for small cuts. Smear the garlic juice and onion wild himself crushed like an insect repellent. There are countless ways to use wild plants, why Why not learn and practice a few?

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