SC - Sumac

[Huette von Ahrens]

Lilinah, 

Not only do you not want to cook with the poisonous
sumacs, you don't want to even breathe their cooking
or burning vapors, which are just a bad as touching
their resins.  Many a fireman has had badly blistered
lungs
when a fire burns through an area covered with poison
oak, ivy or sumac.

Huette

- --- Lilinah biti-Anat <lilinah at grin.net> wrote:
> Chante asked:
> > > Is this sumac ya'll are talking about the same
> sumac many people are
> > > allergic to, or is it something else?
> 
> Bear responded
> >Sumac is a generic name for various plants in the
> family Anacardiaceae.
> >Most sumacs are genus Rhus.  Poison ivy, poison oak
> and poison sumac may be
> >considered genus Rhus, but are often placed in
> genus Toxicodendron, due
> >their containing urushiol.  The most common of
> these plants is T. radicans
> >(poison ivy).  Poison sumac is usually used to
> denote T. vernix.
> 
> You wouldn't want to cook with the toxic kind.
> 
> >Other members of the family are used for tea, wine
> and medicine, i.e., Rhus
> >typhira (staghorn sumac).
> 
> And the sumac used for seasoning Middle Eastern food
> is not the same 
> plant that gives people terrible itchy rashes. It's
> a different 
> sumac. (i think this wasn't entirely clear in Bear's
> very helpful 
> post)
> 
> Anahita al-shazhiya
> 
>
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