This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is WATER Hemlock that is deadly poison, the root especially. The plant looks like a tall parsnip-like plant, and it is in the parsley family. A similar plant is the cow parsnip, common in coastal areas of Southeast Alaska and British Comumbia, is edible. The big tell-tale difference is in the root..the poison hemlock has a root that is "Partioned". This was the plant Socrates used. The Hemlock TREE is a evergreen tree much like the spruce, etc. and is not poisonous. It is used for lumber. The Yew, which can be a common ornamental shrub, is poisonous.
End of Botany Lesson 101! Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, still mild, above freezing. At 07:20 PM 10/5/1999 -0700, you wrote: >This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hogfuel---hemlock---I have Hemlock trees and the horses chew on the bark >etc. Don't you mean another tree or shrub? Jean > > > >Jean Gayle >Aberdeen, WA >[Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" >Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] >http://www.techline.com/~jgayle >Barnes & Noble Book Stores > > > > ************************************************************ Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska [EMAIL PROTECTED]
