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Old 01-09-2006, 04:39 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Penelope Periwinkle Penelope Periwinkle is offline
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Default Do plants absorb toxins from the soil?

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:24:21 -0700, "William L. Rose"
wrote:

Listings that I've read refer to ingestion of oleander for toxic effects
in mammals, birds, reptiles. As long as you don't eat Monarch butterfly
there shouldn't be much of a problem.


Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, not oleanders. While they both
contain cardiac glycosides, and oleander aphids plague my milkweed
plants, monarchs prefer milkweeds.


Penelope, who has monarch caterpillars munching her milkweed right
now.


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