Recently, an article entitled "84 kinds of herbs and 43 kinds of wild vegetables were found in the community after 57 days of closure" was widely brushed on social media. Recently, a blogger wrote that the community has been closed for more than two months. When walking in circles in the community, he studied the wild weeds.
When he walked every day, he would first classify them, take photos and archive them, and then compare them online to collect information. The results of 57 days were amazing. There were 86 kinds of weeds in the community.
The blogger divided the 86 plants into 8 groups, and each plant was marked with number, family, genus and Latin name. Among them, 43 species are edible, 6 species are poisonous, 7 species are listed as alien invasive species, and 84 species can be used as medicine
The author of this article, Bao Yan, is a post-80s generation who lives and works in Shanghai. He said that he was interested in plants since childhood, and became even more obsessed after junior high school. "I remember that in the year of senior three, when I had heavy schoolwork, I would take time to make some notes on plants. When I look back, it's actually quite crazy.".
He also said that his starting point is not to exhaust all the wild plants in the community. "It's just the hard work during that time. Now that we have to unpack, we have to start sorting out."**
He said about why he made such a strange analysis and summary about whether he could eat; "I think this is the first reaction of many people when facing plants: whether they can eat, whether they are useful, whether they are poisonous, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages... When facing plants, the reaction and attitude of a living body may change later, and I think this is more important."
