When hiking or going through a park you don’t see wild vegetables such as head of lettuce or zucchini? Or potatoes?
Also never hear of survival situations where they find potatoes or veggies that they lived on? (I know you have to eat a lot of vegetables to get some actual nutrients but it has got to be better then nothing)
Edit: thank you for the replies, I’m not an outdoors person, if you couldn’t tell lol. I was viewing the domesticated veggies but now it makes sense. And now I’m afraid of carrots.
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Wild Cabbage/lettuce/other brassica cultivars: native to Western Europe. Looks like a typical broad-leafed flower.
Wild Potatoes: native to the southern USA/northern Mexico. Literally just a species of nightshade.
Wild Pumpkin/zucchini/squash: native to Mexico. Unremarkable appearance.
Onions: native to central or eastern Asia. Literally just a species of allium.
Tomatoes: native to Ecuador and Peru. They do look like tomatoes, so if you’re in Peru when they’re fruiting you might even recognise them.
We do “find” them – it’s just hard to recognise them, many of them are barely edible, and (mainly) they are native to completely different parts of the globe.
You know an example of a wild vegetable that is common? The dandelion.
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