Thread: Please tell me this isn't giant ground elder
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Old 06-06-2013, 01:38 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Please tell me this isn't giant ground elder
On 05/06/13 08:50, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

On 04/06/13 22:58, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

/hogweed/

I've handled the leaves without ill effect - but think I'll proceed with
caution. Cooking it sounds tempting though!

You want to be 110% certain of the identity, particularly with
umbellifers, which contain some rather toxic plants.

This is very true.

OTOH, many herbs and spices from the huge angelica to the small ground
elder have been used since the dawn of time.

Some of them, like hemlock, were used for killing people.

Wasn't that juiceof the tree?

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