Podophyllum
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Podophyllum
- From: M* D* C*
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:12:10 -0400
At 12:39 AM 9/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Visitors to my garden are excited at sight of the large orange fruit on my
>Podophyllum emodi.
>Have any of you tried eating them?
>
No, but my uncle (a farmer) says they are poisonous to livestock. Granted
you are not a barnyard animal, but I wouldn't take a risk. There are alot
of things people used to eat, such as comfrey leaves and nigella flowers,
that are now known to be, respectively, carcinogenic and mildly
poisonous...to humans.
Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Niles, MI USA, Z 5/6
