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RE: Walk With Me [5] - Saunter in the Siuslaw National Forest - Part 2

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Foxglove, also called Digitalis purpurea, is a common biennial garden plant that contains digitoxin, digoxin, and other cardiac glycoside. These are chemicals that affect the heart. Digitalis is poisobous; it can be fatal even in small doses. It was the original source of the drug called digitalis.
In present day usage, foxglove is used as an ingredient in a class of heart drugs called digitalis. Digitalis is usually taken orally, as capsules, as an elixir, or as tablets.
It can also be given in an injection.

Artist's conk is exceptionally common in Main growing on older sugar maples and many other hardwood trees usually persisting for years. When they are picked the interior reveales layers of pores that are like rings on a tree in describing age.
Artist use these mushrooms for etched designs when fresh and for landscape and other painting when dried.

Western skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus) is a very weird, strangely beautiful plant. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and some people find skunk cabbage repellent. Its most distinguishing characteristic is its smell. Its odd smell attracts its pollinators- flies and beetles.

The blackberry is similar in appearance and related to the raspberry. Eat blackberries soon after picking them because the fruit is perishable. The berries are good for you, providing good amounts of antioxidants that protect the body's cells from free-redical damage.

Well known early summer apple, good for drying, freezing, sauce and juice. Transparent pale yellow skin and very sweet flavor.

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You did a lot of work finding that information on the internet, @anayakhan!