Fruits/Edible Plants that can be found year around in the forest?

You can eat three-leaf/four leaf clovers=lemony taste. :9
There are these wild berries...aggiberries or something...they're red and grow on a skipmy, but large bush, with sharp leaves. the leaves are dark green with whiteish edges. The berries taste...like beriies. *shrug* fruity/sweet/tart.
and that's as far as i can remember from survival class....i liked the clovers best. >>;;

Some random stuff that grows wild in our back yard (fairly moist, temperate climate, naturally there would be mixed forest in this area, but it's mostly agricultural)
Blackberries, raspberries (early July into August, sometimes a small second crop in late October/November, until the snow flies) --Did you know that some blackberries are pale yellow?
strawberries (mid to late June)
mulberries, both the black and the white variety (July/August)
wild grapes (September/October) --our house is covered in them. You can also eat the leaves.
grass seeds, of course.
wild rice would be available in autumn if we still had a pond
the roots of cat-tails in late winter and early spring
crab apples (late summer/early fall)
rowan berries (fall and into winter, until the birds pick it clean)
rose hips (fall and into winter)
wood pears (fall)
elderberries (midsummer you can eat the flowers, in autumn, you can eat the berries)
staghorn sumac (autumn into winter, and up until spring--you can make a drink kind of like lemonade if you steep the fruit in water)
in spring: the new shoots of Seal of Solomon, also fern fiddleheads are tasty
black walnut in autumn and winter.
butternut, likewise
hazelnuts would thrive here, if a blight hadn't wiped them out seven years ago
hawthorn berries, fall and into winter
barberry, in late summer and fall.
juniper in late summer and fall, and through the winter. the taste of the berries is very strong--use as spice rather than vegetable.
garlic cress in spring
young shoots of stinging nettle--to be harvested wearing gloves, but good when cooked like spinach
lamb's quarters is another edible weed for early summer
sugar maple sap can be boiled down to make syrup or sugar, or fermented for an intoxicating beverage

Some pitfalls:
beware European buckthorn--the berries look edible, but will give you three days of diarrhea and stomach ache
likewise, beware the yew tree--almost all parts are deadly poisonous if eaten

That's all I can think of off hand. You could do worse than consult Peterson's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, but keep in mind that not everything grows everywhere.

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Pine needles also make a yummy tea if you have some way of boiling water.

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Acorns are edible if you leach the tannins out. Some types have more than others and take more work to prepare. You chop or grind them up and either boil them in several changes of water or let them sit in cold running water like a stream for a while. Keep tasting them, and when they're no longer bitter you can use them. I made some pancakes once with a mixture of homemade acorn flour, cornmeal, and I don't remember what all else, that were delicious.

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I guess manzanita is edible--I've heard it called deer's ice cream.

On Survivorman, I've seen him eat dandelions, which appear far more common in the Rockies than I would have thought. Ramps are another potential edible--another member of the onion family. There's some pretty toxic look-alikes, so I guess the rule of thumb is that if it doesn't smell like garlic or onion, it's probably poisonous. There's some kind of purple flower Les Stroud's pulled up for the roots. If there's a pond or lake in your forest, cattail roots are supposed to be edible as well.

A couple more plants from last night's Surviviorman episode. Wild cucumber is apparently pretty tasty. Not sure about the spelling but what sounded like sa(r)parilla (not sasparilla), it's a root that when boiled ends up being a lot like pasta. Apparently squirrel stuffed with wintergreen and roasted smells good.

please note you have to eat a LOT of yew to die -- eating some berries canmake you sicj -- but to eat renough to kill yourself would take ahuge amount

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The "berries" of yews are edible - the hard seed is not! I've never tried them myself, but so long as you don't bite on the seed, you should be fine.

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Yew berries are disgusting. They have a slimy texture and virtually no flavor - they taste a bit like wax, only worse. Not something I'd want to eat.

Of course, those are only the decorative yews in a church yard; others might be more palatable.

Pine nuts can also be eaten - you can pick them out of open pinecones. I'm decorating pinecones for Christmas this year, and I've had to pull several of the blighters out of my projects.

Mushrooms are also sometimes edible, but unless your characters have several points in Mushroom Lore I wouldn't suggest that they try eating them.

Unfortunately, the best sources of food during the winter are fish and animals, particularly the organ meats of the latter. Pretty much every cold-climate native gets the bulk of their energy from fat and meat; since it's so calorie-dense, it's very effective in fighting off the cold.

Haha just don't go the way of Bear Grylls. I watch him for the cool stuff like how to find water; my brother watches him to see him bite the heads off snakes. Very gross. On the other hand, he shows you what plants can be eaten, and raw. I like Man Vs. Wild. Discovery Channel yay!

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Reindeer moss
acorns (properly prepared)
pine nuts
certain inner tree barks, such as pine
hickory nuts
huckleberries
wild plums (late summer)
pecans
crab apples
persimmons
dandelion leaves (spring)
honeysuckle blooms (not particularly filling, but a nice taste if you bite off the end of the "bugle" and suck out the nectar)

"There's some kind of purple flower Les Stroud's pulled up for the roots-"

That might be purple camus although it's more common on the prairie-
There's a lookalike known as death camus, !
violets are edible too- many flowers are, so are the roots and leaves.
also, lily of the vally roots, mints, ferns like fiddleheads, several green leafy plants, pine resin, pine nuts, some barks- like cherry bark, used for cough syrup, varous water plants.
and of course seeds and nuts, berries, currants, wild grape..
You really do need a guide, like Ewell Gibbons-many plants are also drugs and can be poisonous
Or google famine foods-
I thought it was interesting that one of the purposes of the "annual "beating of the parish bounds" in England included showing children the plants that were only marginally edible, but growing wild