[Sca-cooks] Possibly food related. Dogwood trees.

[Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg]

Look in the phone book under the gov'mnt pages and call your local extension
office.  They'll know or know who to ask.

Raoghnailt


> Flowering dogwood berries are apparently great for birds but some sources
> indicate that they are either poisonous to people:
> http://www.agriculture.com/windstar/profiles/dogwood.html, or simply very
> bitter. On the other hand, the Philadelphia Children's Hospital poison
> control site, http://poisoncontrol.chop.edu/ppn_berries.shtml, says they
are
> not toxic to eat but may that the tree cause skin rashes on contact.
>
> Red osier dogwood berries are edible, however.
>
> Of course the exciting problem is finding out what you have!