HERB - Echinacea question

[Katherine Blackthorne]

Hey, I may be WAY off-base.  This is just what I *thought* I remembered from 
a discussion last fall.

If I was wrong, I accept all the error and appologise for the 
mis-information.

--Katherine.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Walter J. Wakefield" <wjwakefield at juno.com>
Reply-To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: HERB - Echinacea question
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:02:25 -0500

Except that I don't think that ragweed is related to chamomile.
Chamomile, as previously mentioned, is a composita.  That means the
flowers are actually composed of 2 different kinds of flowers, the disk
flowers (the center) and the ray flowers (the petals).  I know some of
the asters are fairly small, but these are complex flowers, and bigger
than what I thought ragweed had.  And I thought all the compositae were
insect pollinated.  The reason that ragweed pollen is such a problem is
the flowers are non-descript and are wind-pollinated.  For wind
pollination to occur, there must be lots of pollen.  But there is no need
for any kind of fancy flower, because there is no need to attract
insects.

I thought the problem with chamomile was that it tended to grow near
ragweed and bloom at the same time, so picked up the blowing pollen.  But
I could be wrong.....  Agnes, are you listening?  Could you clarify this
for us, please?

Suzanna, the herbalist, Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
(Dallas, TX)

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:53:42 PDT "Katherine Blackthorne"
<kblackthorne at hotmail.com> writes:
 >Ah, here we go, I think I see the connection.  Echinacia is related to
chamomile.  (Makes sense, picturing the flowers.)  Chamomile is related
to ragweed.  Could this be the asthma connection?
 >--Katherine Blackthorne


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