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Queen Anne's Lace (wild carrot)

  In my classes,
>I always tell my students to avoid the carrot family altogether since most
>of its members can cause physical problems of one sort or another.
My wife and i harvested agret crop of carrot seeds one year after about
30mins rubbinf the seeds off the umbrels we lost all sensation in our
fingers. A local anethetic senation that lasted some time.
 Their
>father was totally outraged that we would have poisonous plants growing in
>our parks without labelling them! (as in, label all of them). He said the
>option to labelling all of them was to pull them out!
Should have let them go - no great loss.
 Digitalis vs
>Comfrey (Symphytum officinale). Occasionally someone will make what they
>think is comfrey tea & it turns out to be digitallis. This happened
>about 10 yrs ago in Menlo Park after some people attended a very enthusiastic
>lecture on beneficial herbs. It you really know these plants, you would never
>mistake digitalis for a member of the borage family -- one is soft & fuzzy;
>the other scratchy, but to the "beginner"/untrained eye, accidents happen &
>when they do it can be tragic.
I agree. how can anyone confuse them . must be blind.  But you would need
to eat a very lot of digitalis leaves to get a toxic result. I often eat a
leaf when I am lecturing  to demonstrate that poison has more to do with
dosage. The drug is 10,000 times stronger than the plant
Please, have a wonderful summer ... just do
>it cautiously!
Watch the sun. It will give you skin cancer.!!
>lyn
Love your quotes Lyn They have gone into my collection

Michael Bailes
The Fragrant Garden
Portsmouth Road
Erina. N.S.W. 2250 Australia.
Int fax 61 43 651979
Phone 61 43 677322
frgntgar@fastlink.com.au
Next Chilli Festival   March 8/9  1998
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