Michelle wrote:
Have we imbread cultivated food plants that they just don't grow wild
where did all the wild plants go that we cultivated modern vegetables
from?

Some are quite common, you just don't recognize them. Queen Anne's Lace,
for example, is wild carrot. The taproot is quite small, but recognizably
smells like a carrot, although it isn't sweet like cultivated ones.
It's not orange, either, but cultivated carrots in other parts of the
world come in red, yellow, white, and I think purple.

You may see wild lettuces, but they don't look like lettuce once they've
grown a flower stalk. Cultivated lettuce is picked early, because later
it develops a bitter sap. Maize, before being bred to our large-eared
corn, was more like a large grass.

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jamie )

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