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[Merry Cox <broadminded2@msn.com>]

  Maximilian sunflowers grow at 7,200 ft in the Colorado Rockies.
  Merry

 Illinois bundleflower? And Wes Jackson is also growing Maximilian sunflower
in 
> Kansas, but that may be zone 5. Both have significant quantities of oil. 
> Most
> indigenous people in the frozen north get their oil from animals.
> 
> Toby
> http://patternliteracy.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 9, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Jay Woods 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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