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Pirate
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
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Location: Dalworthington Gardens,TEXAS
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: Wild Onions |
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Is there a poisonous variety of wild onions? If so, how does one know the difference between poisonous and edible?
I have thousands of them, and I have always either mown over them or pulled them and tossed them. They look like shallots and smell like shallots. |
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Dirt Doctor
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Posts: 540
Location: Dallas,Tx
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| If they smell like garlic or onions, they are edible but be careful. A similar looking plant called crow poison is toxic. There's a pretty good explanation of the difference in Plants for Texas book. |
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Pirate
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
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Location: Dalworthington Gardens,TEXAS
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: Thanks |
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| Many thanks. They do smell like onions. I don't have Plants for Texas. I guess I should get it before I try one. I could not find anything on the internet that gave me any confidence. |
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Tony M
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
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Location: McKinney,TEXAS
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Pirate-
Go to Google and just above the line you type into you will see the word image. Click on image and then type in crow poison, you will see dozens of pictures.
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