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Default I ordered a new rhubarb

On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 18:56:17 -0800 (PST), Roy >
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>On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 7:04:07 PM UTC-7, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 16:50:09 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >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.

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Toxic posters? I thought it was a bunch of jolly hobbits here.