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- From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
- Subject: Re: Giant Hogweed
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:33:32 GMT
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- References: <19856.2af4f60f@ul.ie> <1992Nov12.154101.21237@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Nov16.165411.25115@aber.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov16.165411.25115@aber.ac.uk> per@aber.ac.uk (Peter David Roberts) writes:
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- >Several years ago there was a caseof alleged child abuse in the UK where two
- >chilren were found with marks similar to cigarette burns over their bodies.
- >It then transpired that they had been using the stems of an Umbellifera as
- >pea shooters. Was this also G.H. or are other members of this family toxic
- >to varying degrees?
- Some are savory (carrots, angelica, and many others),
- some toxic. It's a family that has a high profile in
- human affairs.
- >
- >For a semi-humurous account of the species and its history listen to the Return
- >of the Giant Hogweed by Genesis (on either Foxtrot or Nursery Cryme) it was
- >written at about the time the extent of the problem was realised in the UK
- Neat reference.
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- Follow-ups away from s.c.b.
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- Cameron Laird
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