see below

grubber wrote:

"Michelle" wrote in message
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On 1 Feb 2004 21:28:52 GMT, (jamie)
wrote:

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.
Hey that's cool Can you eat eat queen ann's lace?

In most of Texas, the plant that looks like (and is sometimes called) Queen
Anne's Lace is NOT Wild Carrot, but hemlock. If the roots smell like
carrot, it's Wild Carrot, but the local plant smells bitter and is
poisonous. Wild Carrot does grow in parts of east Texas.

http://website.lineone.net/~stolarczyk/queen.html

Yes DO be careful that you KNOW exactly what you're using as there are MANY
"look alkes" in the horticultural world. As Socrates said: "I drank what??"
There also is a "would be "yummy" looking wild leafy green Plant that Grows
all around this . area...yet . is ONE absolutely a ZINGER of a Laxative!!
LYAO...B-0b1

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