TOPIC: Is this the real thing?

New to the forum, and new to ginseng in general... really enjoy learning from y'all. Walked over 7 acres of wooded land to see if ginseng would grow or currently is growing. Trees are mainly oak and maple, once in a while a pine or walnut, east facing slope, but the soil is mostly clay once you go down past 2\". I'll give it a shot anyway and put some seed in. As far currently growing...this is the one promising picture, is this the real deal or are there look-a-like plants that could fool me? Thanks.

Picture wouldn't upload...hmmmm

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Trying the pic again...

That's not ginseng, I don't remember what that is called though. If you notice how the branches come off the stalk/stem in different places, ginseng does not do that.

Ginseng will have all of it's branches (prongs) come off the stalk at the same exact spot with none below and none above. Also is old enough will have a berry pod in the center of them.

Jimbo wrote:

Trying the pic again...

It is a little hard to tell from the pic but the plants you show are either Raspberry or Blackberry and not Ginseng. Ginseng has a similar leaf structure (i.e. 3 to 5 leaves per prong) but they usually always grow from the same central fork.


Frank


This is a 4 (four) prong with four branches or stems with leaves coming off the main stem.

These are flat tops (i.e. just emerged new plants from seeds) with leaves only on the main stem and no forks.

These are 3 (three) prongs or 3 pronged Ginseng plants with three branches or stems with leaves coming off the main stem.

I am sorry but I do not have a decent picture of a 2 (two) prong! Most of the pics of these were taken with my cell phone's camera and they are either too far away or too blurry to be discernible.


Frank

Heres a group of 2 prongs and single prong plants (or flat tops as Frank has referred to them in his previous post.