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07/17/2014
This early to mid-Summer edible has a VERY DANGEROUS look-alike, called Water Hemlock that can kill you if eaten! I do not eat wild carrot or Queen Anne's Lace for this reason. Here, I just wanted to show you what wild carrot looks like - I have not found any water hemlock yet.
But to identify Queen Anne's Lace, I keep in mind that "Queen Anne has one purple eye and hairy legs"; meaning, wild carrot generally has a purple dot at the center of the flower head, and its stalk has hairs on it as oppose to water hemlock. Whereas water hemlock has a smooth stalk and a purplish tint at branching sections.The edible part of wild carrot is the whitish tap root in its early stage. If ingested water hemlock shuts down brain communication to the lungs.
Again, this is just for educational purposes I do not eat nor do I recommend others eating plants that have poisonous look-alikes...the margin for error is too thin to be safe.
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