Re: eating one Eounymus seed

From: Cereus-validus. (fashizzle.yourself_at_spam.net)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:07:09 GMT

It is far more likely that Archie would rather smoke them instead!!!

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> Interesting theory. Would you like to volunteer to eat increasing amounts
of
> seeds to see if they will kill you?
>
> Ora
>
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:03:58 -0500, Archimedes Plutonium
<a_plutonium@iw.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Today I was admiring some bright red bushes. And I did not know what
> >they were although I had learned a few names in my childhood hanging
> >around a nursery. I remember Lantana and Boxwood and Viburnum and
> >vaguely Eounymus.
> >
> >And I saw some orange seeds on the bushes and decided to collect a few
> >to see if I can propagate next year. I was not sure of what bush it was
> >and had to wait to get home and search the Internet to identify. And is
> >usual of me to eat at least one seed, regardless of whether poisonous or
> >not. I know yew are poisonous. So I ate one of these orange seeds and
> >spit it out later for it was acrid. Later I found out it was Eounymus
> >and the seeds are poisonous.
> >
> >But I suspect what they mean by poisonous is if eaten in large quantity
> >of say a bucket ful would kill you. I think scientists should do a
> >better job on something listed as poisonous. They should list as to how
> >much of Eounymus if eaten will come close to killing you.
> >
> >When in the woods and seeing new plants for the first time with seeds on
> >them, I usually give them a sample taste test and if acrid or
> >unpallatable I spit them out and guess they are poisonous until
> >confirmed. I never sample mushrooms but even there, it is my
> >understanding that the deadliest mushroom takes a bit of quantity to do
> >harm.
> >
> >I suspect there is not a single plant seed or leaf when eaten can kill a
> >person. I guess that these plant poisons have to be taken in quantity
> >such as the Yew berry in order to kill a person. So has any scientist
> >made a precise data *** on poisons?
> >
> >Archimedes Plutonium
> >www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
> >whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
> >of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
>