Re: toxic iris pollen?


Griff, and others

I don't remember how this subject came up, but it did during a conversation 
I had with Tom Abrego during the convention and he assured me that that 
particular story was one of the most ridiculous he'd ever heard.

So glad it came out of *my* mouth.

Rusty

BTW-- the hybridizer in question is Neva Sexton, of NEW MOON fame.
>
>Friends -- I've been concerned as I have read the various messages about 
>putting iris pollen on your tongue or in your mouth.  Is it in our Archives 
>or in an edition of the Bulletin that I recall reading of the toxicity of 
>iris pollen and the death of a hybridizer from symptoms that suggested that 
>her habit of licking her daubing brush clean did her in?
>
>Griff
>
>jgcrump@erols.com in Virginia
>
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