Where is forest food found and how do you get it? A roundup of common edible plants

Share Forest vegetables, also called wild mountain vegetables or longevity greens, refer to forest plants that grow in forest areas or forest environments and can be eaten as vegetables. They mainly include the roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and fungi of certain plants, and are an important category of edible plant resources.
  Our country is vast, with diverse terrain, and in the wide mountains and fields grow all kinds of wild mountain vegetables in enormous abundance. There is still no authoritative count of the number of forest vegetable species nationwide. According to reports, there are currently about 700 species of forest vegetables in 63 families, with about 192 of the most common, including 110 herbaceous plants, about 12 vine plants, and about 70 woody plants. Most are in a wild state, and some are cultivated artificially. The average annual production is about 2 billion kg, including 400 million kg of shiitake mushrooms, 100 million kg of wild mountain vegetables mainly consisting of leafy greens, and 100 million kg of dried bamboo shoots from stem types.

  Forest vegetables are numerous and have many different classification methods. According to differences in growth form, they can be divided into: woody types, such as Chinese toon, bladdernut, Chinese pistache, silk tree, and black locust; herbaceous types, such as osmund, houttuynia, bracken, and purslane; and fungal types, such as shiitake, morel, and button mushroom. According to differences in the parts and organs that can be eaten, they can be divided into: stem vegetables, such as moso bamboo, goji, and bracken; leaf vegetables, such as Chinese toon, ci long ya, and purslane; flower vegetables, such as pagoda tree flowers, chrysanthemum, and daylily; fruit vegetables, such as Chinese chestnut, akebia, and hickory; root vegetables, such as konjac, balloon flower, lily, and polygonatum; and mushroom vegetables, such as lion's mane, black wood ear, and shiitake.

Common plants:

Sage, also known as medicinal sage, salvia[1], Japanese purple-flowered sage, and southern red sage, also known as stone-see-through, is an aromatic plant in the genus Salvia of the Lamiaceae family.

Trillium, a plant in the Liliaceae family. Perennial herb, with stems clustered on a short, thick rhizome, 15-50 cm tall. 

Lily, a perennial herbaceous bulbous plant in the genus Lilium (scientific name: Lilium) of the Liliaceae family, native to China, mainly distributed in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere such as East Asia, Europe, and North America.

Ferns are the general term for woody plants that grew in lowlands during the Devonian period. They need water as part of their reproductive cycle, and from then on various different types evolved. Today they are still plants with extremely strong vitality.