Re: Castor Beans and poison hemlock

I was under the impression that Castor Beans are terrible weeds (or maybe just terribly weedy? :) hee hee) A friend of mine in Santa Barbara told me that they have escaped into the hills there.

Bridget

At 10:41 PM 10/30/02 -0800, you wrote:

--- Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com> wrote:

> a very long time.  Do any of you or your municipal
> governments make
> an effort to kill it?


I haven't seen or heard anything about it. It's so
ubiquitous around here that any freshwater area is
generally garaunteed to have it. I HATE the smell of
the flowers. It's this cloyingly sweet nutty smell
that nauseates me. One would think the toxicity of it
and the fact it superficially looks like fennel would
be reason enough that the Elkhorn Slough visitors
center area would kill it, but i remember walking
along a pathway that was densely lined with the stuff.
Easy reach for a child to grab a leaf or stem and suck
on it.

Barry Garcia
USDA: 9
Sunset: 17
Marina, CA

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