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[Neil Bertrando <neilbertrando@gmail.com>]

I'm unfamiliar with any as well. a couple of quick questions/comments for
clarification.

What do you want to do with the oil?

Have you looked into freshwater algae?

Why 'non-edible'?

Some edible annuals are flax, sunflower, canola/rape.

My understanding is that as the climate gets colder, often the available
nutritional needs become more animal based.  For example, Inuits whose
dietary staples are seals and whales, both very rich in oils.  Although the
quantities you can produce using real time sunlight energy will probably be
lower than using plants.

Have you looked into animal oils?


cheers,
Neil


On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Jay Woods <woodsjay@cox.net> wrote:

> I've just realized that I don't know of a single one good for zone 4 or
> colder. The closest thing to this that I do know is the seeds of most
> fruits such as apple, pear, peach and apricot have a small amount of oil
> and the seeds themselves are inedible because of the cyanide content.
> The composition of persimmon and pawpaw seeds needs to be checked on.
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