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Name: Lynda S. P.
Status: educator
Age: 50s
Location: N/A
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Date: Friday, April 26, 2002
Question:
Are wild parsnips edible?

Replies:
Dear Lynda,

Yes, but extreme caution must be used to identify them because they can be confused for their poisonous relatives, poison hemlock and water hemlock.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/plants-1.php

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph25.htm

http://www.woodlanddunes.com/ripples_arch_071501.html

Sincerely,

Anthony R. Brach


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