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[Koreen Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

What a horrible experience for your friends! That can happen within a very 
edible plant family as well. For instance, water hemlock. Most families have 
at least one deadly relative in the bunch. There are very few rules that 
apply in every situation on "safe to eat." The best rule I know of is to know 
the exact plant you are eating. Yes, DNA sequencing is changing a lot of 
things. I spoke to one DNA specialist who says she would no longer consider 
breeding plants for desirable qualities, and is grafting heirloom tomatoes 
onto GMO rootstock. 
 
Koreen Brennan

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On Sunday, November 3, 2013 5:31 PM, John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:
 
I suppose these recent changes have to do with DNA sequencing
For me plant relationships are more than a little bit important. Some 
families are generally very safe to eat or use in medicine while others are 
naughty and have some very toxic family members. A few years ago I nearly 
lost a whole family of friend because they did not remember this. "Ah, that 
is probably what the French eat with Xmas.." Two hours later the whole 
family was in a coma in hospital and it took the husband who had eaten most 
of it more than 4 months to recover.
John

That seems to happen a lot. One might conclude that our understanding of 
relationships and characteristics is still quite incomplete, or perhaps the 
entire idea of trying to categorize plants in families is limited. 
Obviously, there are some plant family patterns that are quite useful to 
know and understand, but others appear to be more ambiguous and less useful. 
Permaculture categories have quite a lot of use and relevance, and may 
perhaps become part of the botany lexicon at some point.

Koreen Brennan
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On Saturday, November 2, 2013 6:14 PM, John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net> 
wrote:

Thanks Lawrence. I see some are re-housed in different families from what I
was used to.
John

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