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Contents 1 Huh? 2 Gerarde 3 tansy ragwort 4 Tansy: Edible or Poisonous? 5 Tansy as a Name

[edit] Huh?

In the fourth paragraph, there is a sentence that states, "Death is normally the result of respiratory arrest and organ degeneration." The fact is obvious, but what does it have to do with Tansy?

[edit] Gerarde

Who is this "Gerarde"? Could someone find source for his quote, please. I have also found him quoted in "Wild Flowers Worth Knowing" by Neltje Blanchan et al. --Yodakii 04:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

John Gerard, author of Generall historie of plants (1597), popularly? known as Gerard's Herbal. -- WormRunner 07:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] tansy ragwort

How can an ordinary person distinguish between tansy (vulgare -the common herb) and tansy ragwort, which kills cattle?

When I was ten years old (in Oregon, back in the late 1960s), a neighbor taught me (and all his friends) that Scotch broom was the same thing as tansy ragwort. As he owned one horse and two cows, I figured he probably knew what he was talking about. A local county ordinance prohibited growing tansy ragwort (and went so far as to fine people that had large stands of tansy ragwort growing on their property) but at this late date I have the strange feeling that he was pulling the wrong plants out of the pasture. The things he was pulling out, appeared to have very strong trunks in the shapes of twisted vines, a couple inches thick at the base, and even though you could grab a hold of them, they were very difficult to pull out. I think that the vines would break, leaving tap roots behind. (Thanks to Wiki, it appears that what he was pulling out, was probably the common Scotch broom and not the odious tansy ragwort that kills cattle.)

For info on "tansy ragwort" and the name confusion, see ragwort Two good characters to distinguish them: Ragwort grows as individual plants which start as a rosette of leaves whereas tansy grows in a patch and spreads by underground stems. In ragwort, the leaf segments are more rounded (see the illustrations on the two pages). -- WormRunner 16:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tansy: Edible or Poisonous?

Since I was a boy, Tansy's or Tansies are edible, now this Wiki article says Tansy is poisonous!

So, which is correct?

http://montana.plant-life.org/species/tanacet_vulgare.htm

http://www.dirtdoctor.com/view_question.php?id=379

Supercool Dude 00:43, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tansy as a Name

I just removed this sentence from the article for two reasons:

(1) The use of weasel words

(2) The name is not in the top 100 female names for UK babies born in 2006.

--Mycroft.Holmes 16:13, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Therefore, I added the dispute tag to complement that request for references added by another user. If no references are added within a week or so or the original person who posted it doesn't improve upon the original statement, then I can see justification for not including it. Cheers! --24.154.173.243 23:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)