Old Photo - Posing With Tobacco Leafs

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 10:47 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Gregush Portland Oregon on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 11:00 am:

It's rhubarb heading for rhubarb pie!
http://recipes.search.yahoo.com/search?p=rhubarb


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 11:28 am:

Mark, Good Eye!! I went with the name given to the photo without looking closely at the photo. I should have caught that one since we grow rhubarb in our garden, duh on me!

A little thread drift here.

Speaking of rhubarb it brought to mind that the leafs are toxic because they contain oxalic acid.

The Incan's used acidic plant leafs to "gold plate" castings made of an alloy of copper and gold. The acid from the plants would eat away the copper in the alloy exposed on the surface of the casting. The pure gold left behind on the surface was then burnished over to form a pure gold "plated" finish.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Dufault on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 11:42 am:

Color pictures:

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/vegetabl/rhubarb2.htm

http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz/nicotiana_sylvestris.htm

(scroll down on this site)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Ida Fls on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 02:06 pm:

So I've been smoking Rhubarb all these years?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Seth - Ohio on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 08:13 pm:

A Fan Dancer!

Just a guess on my part I wouldn't know anything about fan dancers...Honest!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Barry Fowler - Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 08:29 pm:

I have heard, as well, that the leaves are toxic and can kill a cow. However, I know from personal observation that a Moose can eat the leaves and live. Rhubarb pie is my favorite and we grow quite a bit every year. One moose ate the leaves off of two sizable plants, happily walked off and returned a few days later.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Stewart -Calif. on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 10:27 pm:

I went to school with Luther and his sister Onafillia Rhubarb in Arkansas. They always rode to school on a Cow.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Warren W. Mortensen on Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 11:58 pm:

Sally Rand she ain't.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Friday, December 06, 2013 - 06:11 am:

And what about the tires? Balloon size indeed, with a fitting thread for off road use. Looks like standard 21" demountables, maybe the tires were 5.25" or more instead of the std 4.40-4.50" width?


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