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Old 02-09-2006, 01:49 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Do plants absorb toxins from the soil?

As part of a phytoremediation project at a Superfund site, The Army Corps of
Engineering is conducting an experiment to determine whether ferns will
remove arsenic from the soil.
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