Re: are cosmos edible?
- Subject: Re: are cosmos edible?
- From: R* D* <s*@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:21:21 -0400
At 03:37 PM 8/9/2007, Diane Whitehead wrote:
I can't think of any poisonous Asteraceae (formerly called Compositae).
Certain Senecio species found in the southwestern states are toxic to
grazing animals and their honey is hepatotoxic to bees and
humans. This is caused by pyrrolizidine alkaloids found in the nectar
From a Google search on pyrrolizidine Senecio
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v179/n4555/abs/179361a0.html
http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/4/429
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2919395&dopt=Citation
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1957Natur.179..361S
and lots more
