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Please identify this plant
"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:33:56 -0500, phorbin wrote: In article , says... Fortunately I had boiled the hell out of it before I ate it, boiling removes the toxins although you are supposed to boil it twice and I only boiled it once. I didn't have any symptoms but that's the last time I eat any unfamiliar plant. My gardener had told me that he eats this all the time but he is from Jamaica. I suspect that they have a different plant that looks like pokeweed. He probably identified it as a relative of a Jamaican variety of pokeweed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaloo I did a bit more poking around and it's range through several varieties runs from Canada right through South America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokeweed I always knew that this is the way people died from mushrooms, they learn to identify safe varieties on one continent and then they go mushroom picking on a different continent and they mistake a deadly variety for a similar appearing but unrelated variety from their home country. There was a case recently here in Massachusetts where some Russians poisoned themselves when they ate some Death Angel mushrooms that they found in their backyard. My father told me a similar story when I was a child about a little boy who had stolen mushrooms from a neighbors garden, that night the family had wild mushrooms that they had picked in the forest but as punishment for his crime the little boy wasn't allowed to eat any. The mushrooms were poisonous and every member of the family died except the little boy. For the last 50 years I've wondered why my father told me that story since the moral of the tale is that crime pays. I assume the reason he told me the story was because it was something that he had just read in the newspaper and not because he was conveying a twisted morality to me. My take on the story was to confine mushroom picking to the produce aisle of the supermarket. I never realized that the lesson extended to green plants also, I didn't realize that there were any deadly leafy plants growing in North America, now I know better. Now that you know better, please don't try the wild carrots. Some of them could be hemlock! Steve |
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I while back some kids camped in a river bed where I used to live and brought hot dogs to cook. They used oleander stems to cook them over the fire, they started feeling sick they went home and died the next day. It was pretty sad. |
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:25:55 -0700, against all advice, something
compelled "aluckyguess" , to say: I while back some kids camped in a river bed where I used to live and brought hot dogs to cook. They used oleander stems to cook them over the fire, they started feeling sick they went home and died the next day. It was pretty sad. I'll bet, no. Not really. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/oleander.asp |
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:55:22 -0500, against all advice, something
compelled , to say: Steve Daniels wrote: I'll bet, no. Not really. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/oleander.asp However that same article goes on to say: How poisonous is poisonous? Oleander (leaves and branches) is deemed extremely dangerous, I believe that oleander is poisonous. I don't believe a bunch of kids on a campout died from a wienie roast near the OP's home. |
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