Re: OT-CHAT: Iris Sap
- To: i*@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: Iris Sap
- From: n*@charter.net
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:45:42 -0000
Rather often when making crosses I have held stem with a bloom on it
in my teeth to free up hands for doing what the bees do easier and
without tags, pen, etc. As far as I know I am alive still.
Perhaps the reaction was either idiosyncratic or apocryphal (slightly
tongue in cheek).
With potatoes, the toxicity is real. Even the tubers we eat can
develop the alkaloids, especially when exposed to light and warmth.
Native Solanum spp. are mostly poisonous, including some or most of
the ancestors of edible potatoes.
Growing up in Idaho and working for the Simplot corporation in R&*D I
had a chance to eat spuds in almost any form you can imagine--and did
so happily as long as they haven't turned green. I'll pass on the
iris, but come to think of it, one of the girls I dated ate the
blossoms. Only yellow ones tho; she found the purple and blue ones
were bitter.
Neil Mogensen Zone 7a in western NC
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