Spatterdock or yellow water

lily: A Poisonous A

All parts edible. The fruits contain several

dark brown seeds can parch or roast &
grind into flour; rootstock contains bitter
compound removed by boiling in several
changes of water

Drops Bleach to Treat water

Available Drops per Drops per
Chlorine Gallon Liter/Quart
1% 40 10
4-6% 8 2
7-10% 4 1

8 drops = 1/8 teaspoon

Radiation
2 Poisonous 2
Potentially Poisonous Plants
Miles Downwind of Ground Zero 10 50 100
Month 6 rems/day
Month 5 rems/day
Month 4 rems/day
Month 3 rems/day
Month 2 rems/day
Week 4 rems/day
Week 3 rems/day
Week 2 rems/day
Week 1 rems/day

Total Fallout Gamma rems

Fallout Arrival Time hours

• Milky or discolored sap.

• Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside
pods.
• A bitter or soapy taste.
• Spines, fine hairs, or thorns.
• Foliage that resembles dill,
carrot, parsnip, or parsley.
• An almond scent in woody parts
0.5 2.9 6.3
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1

2
2

18
24
37
1192 131 32
1

and leaves.
• Grain heads with pink, purplish,
0.5 0.2
0.3 0.1
0.4 0.1
0.2 0.1
0.3 0.1

5
7
3

or black spurs.
1
2
2

• A three-leafed growth pattern.

 Radiation
3 Radiation
300 to 530 R /week / adult 150 to 265 R / week / child
From 2 hours to three days: transient to moderate nausea
and vomiting in 50 to 90 percent; mild to moderate fatigability
in 50 to 90 percent of personnel. At 2 to 5 weeks: medical
care required for 10
to 80%. At low end of range, less than 10% deaths; at high
end, death may occur for more than 50%. Anticipated
medical problems include frequent diarrhea stools, anorexia,
increased fluid loss, ulceration. Increased infection
susceptibility during immune-compromised time-frame.
Moderate to severe loss of lymphocytes. Hair loss after 14
days.
3
530 to 830 R / week/ adult 265 to 415 R / week / child
From 2 hours to two days: moderate to severe nausea and
vomiting in 80 to 100 percent of personnel; From 2 hours to
six weeks: moderate to severe fatigability and weakness in
90 to 100 percent of personnel. At 10 days to 5 weeks:
medical care required for 50 to 100%. At low end of range,
death may occur for more than 50% at six weeks. At high
end, death may occur for 99% of personnel. Anticipated
medical problems include developing pathogenic and
opportunistic infections, bleeding, fever, loss of appetite, GI
ulcerations, bloody diarrhea, severe fluid and electrolyte
shifts, capillary leak, hypotension. Combined with any
significant physical trauma, survival rates will approach
zero.

830 R Plus / week / adult 415 R Plus / week / child

From 30 minutes to 2 days: severe nausea, vomiting,
fatigability,weakness, dizziness, and disorientation;
moderate to severe fluid imbalance and headache. Bone KI dosage: (Potassium Iodine)
marrow total depletionwithin days. CNS symptoms are
predominant at higher radiation levels. Few, if any, 65 grams per liter KI
survivors even with aggressive and immediate medical
attention.
Adult: 2 ml per day
Child: 1 ml per day

Snakebite Treatment 4 4
• Reassure the victim and keep him still. Halophytes(Very Salt Tolerant)
• Set up for shock and force fluids or give by intravenous
(IV) means. New Zealand Spinach
• Remove watches, rings, bracelets, or other constricting
items.
lizard tail Garden Orache
• Clean the bite area. Salt Tolerant:
• Maintain an airway (especially if bitten near the face or
neck) and be prepared to administer Cotton Wheat (semi-dwarf)
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or CPR.
• Use a constricting band between the wound and the
Oats Asparagus
heart. Sugar beet Date-palm
• Immobilize the site.
• Remove the poison as soon as possible by using a Moderate salt tolerant
mechanical suction device. Do not squeeze the
site of the bite.
Cowpea Soybean
• If infection appears, keep the wound open and clean. Squash zucchini
• Use heat after 24 to 48 hours to help prevent the spread
of local infection. Heat also helps to draw Sunflower Winged bean
out an infection.
• Keep the wound covered with a dry, sterile dressing.
Wheat Clover,sweet
• Have the victim drink large amounts of fluids until the Coconut Fescue,meadow
infection is gone.
Fig Bean,lima
 Bamboo
5 Seaweed: Dulse
(edible) 5
The young shoots of almost all species are
edible raw or cooked. Raw shoots have a
slightly bitter taste that is removed by
boiling. To prepare, remove the tough
protective sheath that is coated with tawny
or red hairs. The seed grain of the
flowering bamboo is also edible. Boil the
seeds like rice or pulverize them, mix with
water, and make into cakes.

Juniper: berries and

twigs edible raw or
cooked. Be sure of
berrylike structures,
needle leaves, and
resinous, fragrant sap red ribbon seaweed

Seaweed: Kelp (edible)

6 Pokeweed: POISON
6

Seaweed: Laver (edible)

Poison Hemlock, fools parsely

 Breadfruit
7 Water lily
7

flowers, seeds, and rhizomes are

edible raw or cooked. Dry, parch,
up to 30' tall. It has dark green, deeply and grind the seeds into flour.
divided leaves that are 29" long 12" wide.
fruits are large, green, ball-like structures up
to 12" across Water Chestnut:
fruit and seeds
edible raw or
The fruit pulp is edible raw. The fruit can be cooked.
sliced, dried, and ground into flour for later
use. The seeds are edible cooked.

Chicory
Chestnut
8 8

up to 6', leaves clustered at base

and some on stem. base leaves
resemble dandelion. flowers sky
roast the ripe nuts in embers; boil
blue. milky juice. All parts are
the kernels after removing the
edible. young leaves as salad or
outer shell. After boiling the nuts
boil as vegetable. Cook roots as
until fairly soft, you can mash them
vegetable. coffee sub: pulverize
like potatoes.
roasted roots
Cranberry treats
urinary tract infections 9 Date Palm, dates
yellow when ripe 9

Dandelion, all Palmetta

parts edible, Palm:
coffee sub
fruits are edible raw. hard seeds may be ground
into flour. Cut off the top of the tree to obtain the
palm heart a food source any time.

Death camas. Death Yam bean tubers: raw

lily: poisonous 10 or boiled. flour, seeds
poisonous 10
Yam
castor bean:
poisonous

Boil for
vegetable
 Neetle: boil young
shoots & leaves to eat J Orach: entire plant is
edible raw or boiled. J

Oak: leach
acorns 1 to 2 Plan-tain:
cook
days before older
eating or leaves
making flour

Plantain: young leaves/ seeds are edible raw.

J Elderberry, berry & flower

edible; other parts poison Q Hackberry, edible when
ripe & falls Q
Foxtail grass: boil grain
to eat

Hazelnut: edible
 Prickly pear cactus
K K
Reed: all
parts
edible
any
season.

Reindeer moss:
All parts of the plant are edible. Peel the entire plant is
fruits and eat them fresh or crush edible, soak to
them to prepare a refreshing drink. Roast soften & remove
the seeds and grindt into flour. bitterness
Avoid lookalikes w/ milky sap : poison
Tropical Almond: eat seeds
raw or cooked A Universal edibility test
A
1. Test only one part of a potential food plant at a time. 2. Separate
the plant into its basic components. 3. Smell the food for strong or
acid odors. 4. Do not eat for 8 hours before starting the test. 5.
During the 8 hours you abstain from eating, test for contact
poisoning by placing a piece of the plant part you are testing on
the inside of your elbow or wrist, wait 15 minutes to allow for a
reaction. 6. During the test period, take nothing by mouth except
purified water and the plant part you are testing. 7. Select a small
portion of a single part and prepare it the way you plan to eat it. 8.
Before placing the prepared plant part in your mouth, touch a
small portion (a pinch) to the outer surface of your lip to test for
burning or itching. 9. If after 3 minutes there is no reaction on your
lip, place the plant part on your tongue, holding it there for 15
minutes. 10. If there is no reaction, thoroughly chew a pinch and
hold it in your mouth for 15 minutes. Do not swallow. 11. If no
Taro, burning, itching, numbing, stinging, or other irritation occurs during
cocoyam, the 15 minutes, swallow the food. 12. Wait 8 hours. If any ill
effects occur during this period, induce vomiting and drink a lot of
elephant water. 13. If no ill effects occur, eat 0.25 cup of the same plant part
ears, eddo, prepared the same way. Wait another 8 hours. If no ill effects
occur, the plant part as prepared is safe for eating.
dasheen:
Boil twice to
remove
poison

All parts edible after boiling or Never test mushrooms

roasting, change water for edibility.

Radiation
Radiation
2 2
30 to 70 R /week /adult 15 to 35 R /week /child
From 6-12 hours: none to slight incidence of transient
headache and nausea vomiting in up to 5
percent of personnel in upper part of dose range. Mild
lymphocyte depression within 24 hours. Full recovery
expected. (Fetus damage possible from 50R and above.)

70 to 150 R / week / adult 35 to 75 R / week / child

From 2-20 hours: transient mild nausea and vomiting in 5 to
30 percent of personnel. Potential for delayed traumatic and
surgical wound healing, minimal clinical effect. Moderate
drop in lymphocyte, platelet, and granulocyte counts.
Increased susceptibility to opportunistic pathogens. Full
recovery expected.

150 to 300 R / week / adult 75 to 150 R / week / adult

From 2 hours to three days: transient to moderate nausea
and vomiting in 20 to 70 percent; mild to moderate
fatigability and weakness in 25 to 60 percent of personnel.
At 3 to 5 weeks: medical care required for 10 to 50%. At
high end of range, death may occur to maximum 10%.
Anticipated medical problems include infection, bleeding,
and fever. Wounding or burns will geometrically increase
morbidity and mortality.
 150 to 300 R / week / adult 75 to 150 R / week / adult
From 2 hours to three days: transient to moderate nausea
and vomiting in 20 to 70 percent; mild to moderate
fatigability and weakness in 25 to 60 percent of personnel.
At 3 to 5 weeks: medical care required for 10 to 50%. At
high end of range, death may occur to maximum 10%.
Anticipated medical problems include infection, bleeding,
and fever. Wounding or burns will geometrically increase
morbidity and mortality.

Screw Pine
3 3

Chew the inner fleshy part. Cook for 2 hrs fruit that
is not fully ripe. Green fruit is inedible.
Anteseptics:
Iodine tablets: Use 5 to 15 tablets in a liter of water
Garlic: Rub it on a wound or boil it to extract the oils
Salt water: Use 2 to 3 tablespoons per liter of water
Bee honey: Use it straight or dissolved in water.
Peat moss: Found in boggy areas worldwide is a natural
source of iodine. Use as a dressing.
Sugar: Place directly on wound and remove thoroughly
when it turns glazed and runny.

Acacia
4 Amaranth
4
All parts are
edible, boil or
eat raw; seeds
raw, boiled,
ground into flour,
popped

short tree with spines and alternate

compound leaves. individual leaflets are
small. flowers are ball-shaped, bright
yellow, and veryfragrant. bark is a whitish-
gray color. fruits are dark brown and
podlike. Found throughout tropics; young
leaves, flowers, & pods edible raw or
cooked.
35 to 60 inches tall, alternate simple
leaves.may have some red color
present on the stems. bear minute,
greenish flowers in dense clusters at the
top of the plants; seeds may be brown
or black or light-colored
 Green seaweed (edible) Bearberry edible raw or
5 cooked 5

Blackberry, raspberry, and

Seaweed: Irish Moss (edible) dewberry edible raw

Seaweed: Mojaban
(edible) 6 Blueberry and
huckleberry edible raw 6

baked, roast seeds

edible raw or
Persimmon: fruit

Seaweed: Sugar wrack

(edible)

Mango: Fruit
raw, seeds
roasted
 Cattail
7 Cereus cactus
7
Sheep fruits are edible,
sorrel: (some laxative);
edible pulp source of
raw or water. Break
cooked open stem &
scoop out the
pulp.

cattail: young tender shoots edible raw or cooked.

Pound the rhizome to remove starch use as flour. When
still green, you can boil the female portion and eat it like Sugarcane:
corn on the cob. eat stem raw
or squeeze for
juice
Purslane:
All parts edible raw or
cooked, seeds flour
substutute Marsh marigold: all parts edible
if boiled.

Chufa
8 Almond
8
You could
live on
almonds
for long
periods.

triangular stem and grasslike leaves. 8" to 24"

soft, furlike bloom. Tubers 1/2 to 1" are edible raw,
boiled, or baked; grind for coffee substitute Pin-
cushion
cactus:
Jujube:
edible fruit Water
source
 Manchineel: poisonous
9 9
Rosary pea or crab's eyes:
VERY poisonous

poisonous
Physic nut:

Lantana:
poisonous

Daylily, all parts edible

raw or cooked 10 Indian Strawberry, eat berries
10

Strawberry
Pine

Seeds of
all pines
are
edible

Eat berries from white flowered plants only

 Wild apple or
crabapple J Papaya, pawpaw: fruit edible
raw or cooked J

Boil leaves, flowers, stems,

changing water twice to remove
Eat raw or cooked cut the apples poison; milky sap from the unripe
into thin slices to dry them.Apple fruit may cause blindness.
seeds contain cyanide.

Lotus, all part edible raw or Manioc: cook rootstock

cooked, seeds make flour Q pulp 1hr remove poison Q
Mulberry fruit
edible raw or
cooked

Malanga: Cook before eating to destroy poison contained

in all parts of the plant. ALWAYS COOK

Q
 Sassafras: young twigs & Q Wild onion & garlic
leaves edible fresh / dried. K K

Poisonous Lookalikes
all grapes
vine
Wild Grage

There are several plants with onionlike

edible; avoid bulbs that are extremely poisonous. Be
poison look- certain that the plant you are using is a
true onion or garlic. Do not eat bulbs with
alikes w/ no onion smell.
single seeds