SC - Held up feast
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adl15.adelphi.edu
Thu Oct 2 12:38:25 PDT 1997
Brid wrote:
> > << I thought Queen Ann's Lace was poisonous?
Ras replied:
> > Say what? Queen's Anne Lace is the wild carrot. If you take the seed palnt
> > it, grow it, dig it up and pick put the biggest roots, replant it, plant the
> > next years seed and repeat the process for at least 3-5 years you will have
> > in your garden a 'period' white or red carrot. :-)
Ciorstan continued:
> This, Lord Ras, is true-- however it is very easy for the new scavenger
> to mistake hemlock for Queen Anne's Lace out in the wild, with very
> unhappy results.
>
> If memory serves, there's also a water parsnip variety (remember the
> thread on skirrets a while back?) that is highly toxic as well.
>From my old, scorched, stained copy of _Peterson's Field Guide
to Edible Wild Plants_:
Wild carrot, Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota)
A widespread _hairy-stemmed_ biennial. Flower clusters flat-topped,
lacy; often with a singule _purple_ flower in center. Old clusters
resemble _birds' nests_. Bracts _stiff, 3-forked_. Root white, smells
of carrot. 2-3 ft.... Prepare the first-year roots like garden
carrots. CAUTION: Early leaves resemble Poison Hemlock (below) but
stalks _hairy_.
Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
A tall, much-branched biennial. Stems stout, hollow, grooved, _spotted
with purple_. Ill-scented when bruised, unpleasant to taste. Root
white, carrotlike. 2-6 ft.... WARNING: small amounts may cause
paralysis and death. Similar to Wild Carrot (above) but leafstalks
_hairless_.
Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane (Cicuta maculata)
Tall, branching, with numerous flower clusters. Stem smooth, _streaked
with purple_, chambered. Leaves twice- or thrice-compound, often
reddish-tinged. Root with fat tuberlike branches, white. 3-6 ft....
WARNING: Our deadliest species. A single mouthful can kill.
Water parsnip (Sium sauve)
Similar to Water-hemlock (above), but stems _strongly ridged_ and leaves
_once-compound_ with 3-7 pairs of lance-shaped leaflets. Basal leaves
very finely cut, often submerged. Roots slender. 2-6 ft.... USE: roots
as cooked vegetable. Boil until tender. CAUTION: Because of its close
similarity to Water-hemlock (above), Water-parsnip is best ignored as a
possible food plant.
Does that make everything crystal clear?
mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
Stephen Bloch
sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
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