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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Water Hyacinth
  • Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 05:57:32 -0700

georg parlow wrote:
mushrooms cultivated ended up enriched with potassium, magnesium,
iodine and calcium, along with numerous other components that are
critical to a healthy food diet. Much of what was lost in the form
of washed away topsoil can be recovered in the mushroom. The water
hyacinth can also recover harmful metals such as cadmium and lead
and store them in their roots if these metals are found in the rivers
or lakes.


makes sense, but...: mushrooms are known to store heavy metals, so if these
are present in the water hyazint growing medium, they will end up on the
consumers plate?

Good point. I wonder why this was not addressed in the website.

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