On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 16:50:09 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
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>> After decades of service, my old rhubarb died. It used to produce
>> really broad stalks and lots of them
>> I replaced it a couple of years ago but all the new plant produced
>> were blossom stalks and a few skinny stalks.
>>
>> I ordered a new rhubarb yesterday. It promises to produce few or no
>> blossom stalks. It looks like it will produce nice broad stalks.
>> https://www.growerssolution.com/rhub...e-rhubarb.html
>> Until I started looking around online for rhubarb I didn't realize
>> that some rhubarb has a nasty habit of producing a lot of blossom
>> stalks. The blossom stalks steal all the plant energy and the stalks
>> themselves are throw aways.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to a new crop in 2020. We enjoy rhubarb sauce,
>> pie and kuchen.
>>
>> Janet US
>
>When we first moved into the house we bought in WA (as a child), there
>appeared to be two beautiful rhubarb plants behind the flowering quince. A
>neighbor confirmed that they were in fact rhubarb but my parents wouldn't
>let me eat either the quince or the rhubarb, thinking them to be poison.
>Even though I promised to cook them both, they still told me to keep away.
>My dad ripped out the rhubarb and eventually. the quince.

Rhubarb leaves are indeed toxic. There are many plants that produce
ordinary produce that her highly toxic... tomato plants are quite
toxic... tomatoes are in the nightshade family, the leaves, stems. and
roots are very toxic, same for potatoes.