Re: OT-PLANTS: Niger thistle

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• Subject: [iris] Re: OT-PLANTS: Niger thistle
• From: M* C* <M*@compuserve.com>
• Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:28:19 -0400
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Message text written by INTERNET:iris@hort.net
>Niger is more like a small flowered sunflower, is grown for human food
in other parts of the world, with the leftovers heat sterilized (to kill
any weed seeds accidentally mixed in with the Niger seed) and sold to
the US for use as wild bird food.
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Thanks for the tid-bit of heat sterilizing - I've always wondered why the
seeds our finches scatter don't sprout.

Mickey Corley
Bethany OK - Center of Oklahoma USA
Zone 6/7

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