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  • From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] What's safe to eat and what isn't
  • Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:01:15 -0800

Daphne is a genus of mostly evergreen shrubs grown for their sweet-scented flowers. They can perfume the air all around. If I leave a window open, the entire house will be perfumed. Many flower very early in spring (February). Some are low-growing alpines, some can be as tall as a person. Many have pink flowers, some white, and there are new yellow-flowered ones being imported from China. Many have long-lasting red berries.

There is a yellowy green-flowered European one that has naturalized all over this area. Birds spread its black berries, and it quickly grows a lo-o-ong taproot so it thrives in dry shade and is really hard to pull out. If chopped off, it regrows.

Great plants, but they are all poisonous.


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Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil




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