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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Edible Flowers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.195244.10158@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:52:44 -0600
- References: <psmith.727641803@cunews> <C19yK8.z1@cup.hp.com>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <C19yK8.z1@cup.hp.com>, tomm@cup.hp.com (Tom McNeal) writes:
- > Don't forget 'Johnny Jump-ups', a small wildflower with deep purple
- > and white petals. I didn't see it in that big list, but I'm not sure
- > what its scientific name is. I wonder how many wildflowers are edible?
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- Johnny jump-up is one of the ancestors of the cultivated pansy, which is
- as edible as its cousins the blue violets.
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- And remember, cultivated plants were once wildflowers ;-)
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- Kay
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