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Old 28-09-2003, 12:03 PM
Jaques d'Altrades
 
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Default Huckleberries
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

See a previous thread. The berries of SOME STRAINS OF black nightshade
are edible; it is unclear that all strains are. I shall continue with
my practice of experimenting with many wild plants, but not the
Solanaceae.

I've been eating the berries since I was an anklebiter and have never
taken any harm from them. That's probably fifty years of autumnal
berrynoshing.

It is very bizarre that two families that include many of the most
important food plants (the Solanaceae and Fabaceae/Leguminoseae/etc.)
also include many of the most poisonous plants. But it is so.

Just as bizarrely my favourite mushroom (Amanita rubescens) is closely
related to some of the most poisonous ones known. (Amanita phalloides,
A. virosa, A. verna and resembles the only slightly less poisonous A.
pantherina.)

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