Monday, September 07, 2009

Sunday Walk in the Woods - Campbell Airstrip

We went to Campbell Airstrip yesterday for a walk because it's close and it's flat. This is my favorite cross country ski trail. You can see what it looks like in winter.


Lots of people and their friends were out today.

No sooner were the horses almost out of sight
and the bikers came by.


While today it was in the high 60s F (@20C) there have been
some cool nights and some plants are already hinting at fall


Can anyone tell what these are?

Rose hips have lots of vitamin C. And I love picking them and eating them along the way. It's an acquired taste, but this time of year when they are soft and almost sweet they are great. So how much vitamin C do you think they have per 100/mg? The chart below from naturalhub.com shows the amount of vitamin C/100 g of some other fruits. (The column that shows green kiwi has 98 mg/100 g.)
Kiwifruit, green
Actinidia deliciosa
98
74
exceptional

Kiwifruit, yellow
Actinidia chinensis
120 to 180
108 to 162
exceptional

Lemon juice
Citrus limon
46
3*
-

Lime juice
Citrus aurantifolia
29
1*
-


Orange
Citrus sinensis
53
70
excellent

Papaya
Carica papaya
62
47*
excellent

**Pawpaw/Asimina
Asimina triloba
14
28(estim)
good

Passionfruit, purple
Passiflora edulis
30
5
-

Peach
Prunus persica
7
6
-
The answer is at the bottom of the post.




Most of the devil's club was still green.
This one is a little ahead of things.


Some of the dogwood (no, not the tree) is still green.

Finding a good patch of dogwood to photograph
allowed me to see this seven legged spider.

And some dogwood is already red.



While I stop to take pictures, J goes on ahead. Why was I not
surprised to see her waiting for me in a sunny spot?

A great young boleta.




Even a fly fisher in the creek as we went over the bridge.


And this is Blake from Glenallen.
He works for the BLM there, but is going to UAA,
so he was doing their survey of people using BLM land.



Here's the rosehip vitamin C answer. Compare the third column numbers here with those in the table above. For Alaskans, they are out in the woods waiting to be picked and eaten now, or stored away for winter.
Rosehip
Rosa pomifera cv.'Karpatia'
1,500
45(estim.)
excellent
[5]
Rosehip
Rosa sp. cv.'Pi Ro 3'
1,150
34(estim.)
very good
[5]
Rosehip
Rosa sp. cv.'Vitaminnyj-VNIVI'
2,000 to
2,500
60 to 75(estim.)
excellent
5. These are three different types of roses. Full citation at naturalhub.com.

3 comments:

  1. What a beautiful post... I need to go for a walk in the woods too!!!
    I think those are Pushki (sp?) seeds - wild cow parnsip. Thanks for the beautiful photos... I especially like the fern shot. wow. cs

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  2. I knew I was in trouble (coming down with the flu) when I started not being able to get enouh of them. I have never lived them in my 30+ years of being in Alaska.

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  3. Yes, CS, they are wild cow parsnip seeds still in the now dried out flowers. I thought you might figure it out.

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