On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:03:04 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >Followed this link and found some curious things listed as poisonous? > >http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/poison/ppstcommon.htm > >Like tomato, onion, rhubarb, potato. Is this for real or somebody having >fun?
The tomato and potato are nightshades (as in "deadly nightshade") and the leaves and stems vary from somewhat to very poisonous to people. I might add that peppers and tobacco are also in the same group (with tobacco having the mildest poison). According to my grandma, rhubarb leaves are also supposedly somewhat poisonous, and only young rhubarb stems are used as food (I don't know what family it's in). Onion surprises me. I wonder what part is poisonous and at what time in it's life cycle. -- Dean -- from (almost) Duh Moines (CDP, KB0ZDF) -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
