Poisoned Friend

[Nyboy]

I save pots, I purchased bush covered in red berries in this pot. I had bush by kitchen door waiting to be planted. my friend Kristine come over, we where going out to dinner. my way to car I showed her new plants i bought that day. I told her to try these berries, she ate a handful we got in car I drove about 2 blocks when she started yelling pull over. She opened car door leaned out and started vomiting. Only thing she ate was berries.

 

[Nyboy]

This fall I will get photos of berries. I think they might be elderberries, only berries people eat that can be poisonous. Or I don't know if nursery reused pots end of season clearance was $60 marked down to $30

 

[Smart Red]

Next time regale her with your home-made wine or fresh pie. I checked this out after your post. I learned something new-to-me here. Important, because I have elderberries in the front yard.
Elderberries
No need to put down your mulled wine and elderberry pie, ripe elderberries lose their poisonous properties when cooked. The risk lies in elderberry leaves and stems, which produce cyanide, and uncooked or unripe elderberries, which contain a toxic alkaloid. In particular, elderberry tea (made with elderberry leaves) should be treated cautiously and is the most frequent cause of elderberry fatality.
Catch that, @Nyboy -- fatality, not mere poisoning? You and your friend (and now me and mine) got off lucky with the "tossing of your berries" beside the car.
Thanks again! Not only have you saved my skin with yesterday's delivery, but your elderberry mistake may have saved my Gypsy or Maverick from a deadly mistake.

 

[Nyboy]

WOW really do believe in guarnden angels

 

[Smart Red]

Garden angels like yourself? Or guardian angels? I believe both apply in this instance and I thank you. Too bad neither were available for your friend. . . or where they. . . she is still a friend; still here, right?

 

[Nyboy]

Guardian LOL Still friends ,takes more then poison to loose me!!

 

[majorcatfish]

@Nyboy I hope your friend is feeling better...
No homemade edible gifts for me this Christmas...

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

haven't your friends realized by now they should ask before they eat anything at your house if you made it or where it came from? and did a trained arborist/farmer identify it first?

 

[journey11]

Good grief, Nyboy, how many times is that now? All your friends must really like living on the edge, LOL.

I have safely eaten maybe 2 or 3 elderberries raw before I knew they needed to be cooked first. The taste wasn't really impressive or I might have eaten more, so an easy enough mistake to make. She must have had a pretty good handful.

 

[thistlebloom]

This is just the one event, related again, right NYboy?
I'm confident you don't routinely make your friends sick.