Carrion Flower Berries. Berries are eaten by ruffled grouse wild turkey and various songbirds. Upright vine with clusters of greenish flowers which turn into clusters of dark blue fruit.
Carrion flower berries edible this flour can be used half and half with wheat flour made into jelly by boiling 1 tablespoon per cup of water or diluted and sweetened for a cold drink. Tuber can be roasted and ground into flour. Carrion flowers distinctive features.
The growing tips including the unfolding leaves can be eaten raw in a salad or boiled as a potherb.
At the end of the growing season the entire vine dies down to the ground. Berries remain on the plant throughout winter. Carrion vine herbaceous carrion flower other scientific names. Carrion flowers attract mostly scavenging flies and beetles as pollinators.
