SC - help-Queen Ann's Lace

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Brett and Karen Williams wrote:

> 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. Alas, I 

Yes, both a toxic, and highly so. Of course I can't recall either the 
latin or the english names (I don't think anyone else here would be 
helped by the swedish ones...) at the moment. I'll try to remember to 
check my litterature on the subject when I get home, in case anyone is 
really interested. 

But the important thing is to make sure of what you are eating when
gathering wild plants; you can get very dead, or have fun things like no
(functional) kidneys happen to you. And don't trust all the "taste tests" 
that you read about; some things taste and smell nice, but do their
nefarious work in silence. Wild mushrooms are particularilly dangerous in
this respect, since some species will taste good, but destroy your
kidneys. By the time you realize you haven't been to the bathroom for 48h
it is too late. 

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                  par.leijonhufvud at labtek.ki.se 
"Ignorance is a renewable resource" 
		-- PJ O'Rourke

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