Eating Cattail (Typha) Shoots...

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petah

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I have concerns with eating these guys. We use them to take out heavy metals from our quarries to help restore the land. As well as using them for wastewater treatment for runoff on site development(s).

Now, I'm not saying eat these working plants... but ones in nature...


Is it possible to get heavy metal poisoning for them?
 
Not much chance of it in the wild unless you are gathering form an old quarry or mine site.
 
Anything is possible these days. That's why it's always a good idea to pay attention to the area in which they are growing.
Is that to say it is likely? Nope. But is it possible? Yep.
 
You said "heavy metal"

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What is that? A trailer park version of Ozzy?

Jesus is bound to get pissed if that dude keeps eyeballin' him that way.
 
That is Ozzy and the dude on the headstone looks like Tony Iommi.
 
Rule of the thumb: Don't eat them if they are closer than 100 yards from a road. They really are the pond's filter.

About heavy metals. I guess if there are fishes in that same pond, it's shouldn't be that bad.
 
I love the roots! I get them at a local pond, and have gotten bullfrogs there too, so It seems safe. I havent eaten the shoots. What do they taste like?
 
I've eaten plenty without any odd results.. twitch.....but they are normally at ponds in high elevations without road drainage.

Actually, something I was thinking about the other day, can you contract giardia from eating these raw?
 
I'd think you could contract any sort of bug from eating any veggie raw that had something still on it. Esp any root crop.
 
Hey, Yule Gibbons ate them didn't he, and he's, well he's dead now.

Actually, I find them pretty tasty, although Yampa nuts are better.
 
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