Re: toxic iris pollen?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] toxic iris pollen?
- From: j*
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:33:45 -0400
Thanks, Rusty, especially for identifying Neva Sexton. I hope Tom Abrego
is right, but I'd still like to be able to recall where I read the story.
Griff
jgcrump@erols.com in Virginia
-----Original Message-----
From: Rusty Thornsburg <RTburg@hotmail.com>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] 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
>>
>>
>>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
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