"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:16:25 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

My garden is full of these plants, my Jamaican gardener says that these
are edible but he doesn't know what they are called here. Does anyone
know what these are

http://picasaweb.google.com/bjoshuarosen/Mystery_weed#

I just tried it, it cooks up and tastes kinda like spinach.


You shouldn't do that, improperly cooked it is quite poisonous. The common
name is poke salad. It should be boiled in at least two changes of water and
then cooked to tenderness. It was once canned and sold commercially by a
cannery in Arkansas, but they can't get enough pickers any more. If you get
sick get to the hospital. The poison is water soluble and I believe in the
oxalate group.