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potato & tomato soup, with herbs
Beverly Erlebacher writes
And a family as apparently innocuous as the Umbelliferae (or whatever it is these days) full of tasty veggies and herbs like celery, dill, parsley, carrots, fennel, etc, includes poison hemlock of which a really small amount can kill an adult. And while many seeds of this family are used as flavourings (dill, caraway, anise, cumin, cariander and many more), carrot seeds can cause miscarriage. ======= Stewart Robert Hinsley schreef I never thought of Umbelliferae as innocuous; at a guess it contains 2 of the 3 most toxic plants in the British flora (hemlock and water dropwort; the 3rd would be deadly nightshade). -- Stewart Robert Hinsley + + + Around here the Umbellifer with the most fearsome reputation by far is Heracleum mantegazzianum (US: Giant Hogweed), which frequently puts people in hospital and is potentially lethal, without anybody taking a bite See eg http://www.wa.gov/agr/weedboard/weed_info/hogweed.html On the other hand it does make a nice story when connected to treating psoriasis with another of the Umbellifers PvR |
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