In article 7,
Tom Gardner writes:
|
| Heh. When I was I kid my father said yew berries were
| edible. I asked if both the red flesh and the hard
| "kernel" were edible and he said it was probably better
| not to eat the kernel.
|
| So I only ate the red flesh, and only of one berry.
| Just as well really.

The red flesh is very mildly poisonous (as is horseradish root, rhubarb,
sorrel, rue, many beans, potatoes etc.), but the actual seed is deadly.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.