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Re: Edible flowers ?

At 03:28 PM 10/19/1998 +1000, you wrote:
> I am preparing alist of edible flowers for  a TV show tomorrow.
>the list (so far)is  as follows
>Any meditgardiners out there add to the list/

Some Edible Flowers:

Agastache, especially long-tubed pink to yellow ones
most Salvias  

Probably most hummingbird flowers

Some DEFINITELY Non-Edible Flowers:

Kalmia - mountain laurel (the nectar is toxic to bees)

Yellow composites in the Baileya and Senecio groups - these contain
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are kidney and liver poisons; they are
dangerous for animals to graze on, and honey from their flowers is toxic.
These plants are found in the American southwest.

I would avoid legume flowers amongst the locoweeds as well (Astragalus) 

Watching which animals feed on flowers isn't enough.  Mother Nature's
combination of a nasty effect with a warning isn't perfect, and we need to
carefully observe how critters feed on them, not just that they do.

Richard Dufresne
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