SC - Salsify or Oyster Plant

[LrdRas@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/14/99 9:26:09 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
LrdRas at aol.com writes:

> 
>  It is my understanding that ergot is a fungus that lives on alive plants. I
>  doubt very much it's ability to live and breed on already harvested grain.
>  Also I thought that ergot was a pest of wheat and rye?
>  

I know there was an ergot outbreak in the South about twenty five years ago.
It appeared in stored grains, both dry storage and silaged grains.
As far as I know, true Ergot lives only on rye and rye products, but some of
it's cousins are not so selective.

Mordonna
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