Here's something to tax your brain pans:

Skunk cabbage. Edible? If so, how do you cook it.
-ginny

On Apr 14, 12:41*pm, "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:
> Here's something to tax your brain pans:
>
> Skunk cabbage. *Edible? If so, how do you cook it.
> -ginny

Google is your friend!

On Apr 14, 12:41*pm, "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:
> Here's something to tax your brain pans:
>
> Skunk cabbage. *Edible? If so, how do you cook it.
> -ginny

Well....it's edible, but why would you want to?

It's been used for eons for medicinal purposes by natives but it's got
properties that make it undigestable and icky...much less stink.!!

Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
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> Here's something to tax your brain pans:
>
> Skunk cabbage. Edible? If so, how do you cook it.

There's three completely different types,
Eastern, Western, and Asian. Which do you mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Cabbage

Janet Baraclough wrote:
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> Here;s the one I grow as an ornamental bog plant (in "flower" at the moment)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Skunk_Cabbage
>
> I wouldn't want to eat one

The high level of calcium oxalate makes it a risk
for kidney stones. Don't want those.