I'm remembering some kind of old Chinese torture where the bamboo sprouted
inside a person and was a Very Bad Thing. Seems to me it was slivers and not
seeds that did it.
I don't think I'd eat anymore of it until you can check that out. That's the
only reason I'm posting this. Don't laugh :-/.
Much as I dislike alarmist communications, I couldn't keep quiet about this
one, sorry.
JM $.02 .
Linda
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--- On Sat, 6/2/12, Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Edible bamboo?
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, June 2, 2012, 1:04 PM
I have a number of edible bamboos which I have been harvesting for a few
years. There is one type of bamboo a neighbor gave to me and of which I
don’t know the name. Since I don’t know the name I can’t check if it is
edible or not.
The problem is that I don’t know what it means if a bamboo is “not edible”.
Does it mean that it is poisonous or does it just mean that it doesn’t taste
very good or that it is too hard to eat? I tried a bit raw today and it
didn’t taste much different from the edible ones I have. Would it be safe to
eat?