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Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!
I'm having trouble finding sources for other specific fern species, though many ferns have been around for hundreds of millions of years.
Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!
On a side note there are 1000s even 10s of thousand of edible plant based species that grow on the earth. i don't know how old they are though.
Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!
Fiddleheads from ferns are available at farmer's markets in the spring in my area, though not from the cinnamon fern specifically. I'm having trouble finding sources for other specific fern species, though many ferns have been around for hundreds of millions of years.
Seeing my neighbors gathering ginkgo nuts made me curious enough to try them, and I waded right in without understanding the risks! TLDR— they're not a great food source. It's yet another one of those cases where you have to wonder what "delicacy" means. The actual fruit (looks like a rotten plum, smells terrible) has ginkgolic acids which cause contact dermatitis (think poison ivy). Then the nuts themselves contain…
Barley and Yogurt, they are the dogs we domesticated from wolves that changed us too.
Daily barley water is a life changer, I don't think our digestive systems really function without a smidgen of daily barley.
This is an interesting way to think about plants and animals. I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find sources for known age of species - is that information collected somewhere? Or is it something we often just don't know because of how sparse the fossil record is? Wondering because of trying to look up the age of fern species I do eat (no cinnamon fern near me) and I can't find out.
It depends on what you mean by the age of the species. You can find the oldest known fossil occurrence at the Paleobiology Database [1] and the divergence time from molecular phylogenies via TimeTree [2].
Hands up who has ever eaten anything from that list!