Part XII
32 named mix-ups — tea leaves, white umbels, autumn cups, and two plants that share a common name. A comparison is not a forage license.
Foxglove for comfrey in a kettle is the worst garden story in this folio. Poison hemlock for parsley is the worst roadside one. If a plant is not in flower and you cannot name it, it is not tea, salad, or a wild carrot.
Pairs involving Sweet potato.
Cassava for a sweet potato
Two tropical roots. One is a breakfast. Bitter cassava is cyanogenic until it is prepared correctly — not a casual swap.
Sweet potato is a morning-glory vine with milk and a tapered storage root. Cassava is a shrub with palmate leaves and a long, barky tuber. Do not cook an unknown tropical root as if it were a yam.
