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Author Topic: Phacelia - weed or pasture?  (Read 2660 times)

Diane Whitehead

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Re: Phacelia - weed or pasture?
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2010, 01:00:59 AM »
It sure looks like pictures of Echium.  Now why did I think it was Phacelia?
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Diane Whitehead        Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Paul T

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Re: Phacelia - weed or pasture?
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2010, 04:13:57 AM »
Hmmm.. not entirely what the comment about being extraordinarily polite means?  Have I phrased something incorrectly? ???

Paterson's Curse is definitely used for honey production in some cases, as I have tasted honey that was supposed to be predominantly from PC forage.  I can't recall it being anything pareticularly distinctive in taste, but it was a while ago.  The flowers are such a gorgeous shade of purple. 8)
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Diane Whitehead

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Re: Phacelia - weed or pasture?
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2010, 04:33:03 AM »
Yes, beautiful, BUT ...

I've just been reading about it.  The honey has to be mixed with other honey to dilute the
alkaloid toxins.  Horses die from eating the plant, but cows and sheep manage when nothing else
is available.

And I have done California an injustice.  It's a European plant, invasive in Australia, South Africa,
and the U.S.

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Diane Whitehead        Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Phacelia - weed or pasture?
« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2010, 06:30:13 AM »
Being as my last name is Paterson i am very sorry about my name sakes curse. :(
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