Re: Are Carrots Period?

["H L. Falls" <hlf@holmes.acc.virginia.edu>]

Poster: "H L. Falls" <hlf@holmes.acc.virginia.edu>

 
> Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com (Alfredo el Bufon)
> 
> <snip...>
>
> I understand that there is a plant called Queen Anne's Lace that
> often grows wild in fields and roadsides that is in fact wild
> carrot, with a root (like the common garden-variety carrot but
> much thinner and with a white flesh) that is edible.  However,
> there is another wild plant (I forget the name) with a similar
> white compound flower and white taproot, that is poisonous.
> 
> -- Alfredo
  
   Poison Hemlock -- the stuff they dosed Socrates with...

--Landi (who used to be able to tell them apart, but wouldn't risk 
         it now...  :-)
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