Re: [CH] CHDigest V6 #52
Jesse Guadiana (jguad1@mer.cioe.com)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:35:54 -0500
Chile-Heads Digest wrote:
> From: Bob Batson <bob@sky.net>
> Subject: RE: [CH] Off-Topic Oddity
>
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, "California Technologies"
> <webmaster@catechnologies.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I would imagine your bush is something other than
> > pyracantha.................................................
>
> [snip]
>
> > The birds enjoy feasting on the berries, so they are
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > certainly not poisonous.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is not a safe deduction. Birds enjoy eating berries of the poison ivy
> plant too and you wouldn't say those berries would be safe for human
> consumption.
>
> ====================================================================
> Bob Batson L 39 12 14 N 94 33 16 W
[snip]
Agreed. And don't forget NIGHTSHADE. Poisonous to humans, a tasty snack
to birds. I got as many nightshade weeds sproutin' ALL SUMMER around
here (NW Indiana USA) as I do mulberry bushes/trees, all courtesy of
birds "vectoring," i.e. distributing in a post-digestive sort of way...
On-Topic: Here's to the chipotlification season here in the northern
hemisphere,
Jesse G.
CH#1200