What's going on everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here? We are back again with

Dr Mark Meriwether Vordobrugan. He's the creator of Foraging Texas, author of Idiot's

Guide Foraging, and then in his real life, he is a formulation chemist

for consumer products.

Some of the companies he works for includes Workman's Friend.

They make a barrier skin cream.

That is super cool. Something I'm excited to try out this year

in the garden. So today what we're going to be talking about is the larger question of

plant identification you know I know from my very limited experience in

mushrooming that this is the most important skill because if you misidentify and

eat something well you might have a very short lifespan after that point so dr mark for someone who like me

who really doesn't have a lot of foraging experience what is the 101 on how I should be

thinking about plant ID.

Well, plant identification is actually really easy if you pay attention to details.

I tell people, if you can tell the difference between a peach and a nectarine you'll be able to forage.

Because you know it's just a subtle but very obvious difference once you see it.

Identifying unknown plants that's a that's a really a technique that should be taught in schools but isn't.

But it boils down to the structural features of the plants.

If you remember from basic high school biology, plants are divided into

families and then all the members of a particular plant family have all the same

basic structural features. So what sort of

structure features like the leaf structure? How is the leaf attached to the

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