Talk:Arum
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Oxalic Acid
[edit]Do we have a good source for the Oxalic Acid sentence? Whilst they may contain oxalate, there's recently been a lot of controversy about the actual toxicity of a acute oxalate consumption in a wide variety of doses. (For example, whilst Rhubarb leaves are certainly toxic, it's probably not due primarily to oxalate). If someone can identify the source, fine (oxalate certainly is toxic in sufficient quantity). Otherwise I can look for a good ref for this controversy (also needed in Rhubarb, and we can change it to "believed"?
I don't think I'd eat most Arums. Even if they are edible, I'm pretty sure most would be unpalatable, :).
81.187.202.205 (talk) 15:10, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
broken link
[edit]http://www.cate-araceae.org/key/KeyIntroduction.do?id=3 that link seems to be broken.--Stanzilla (talk) 11:25, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Arum as a genus or family
[edit]I recently had some confusion because I saw several references for Taro as Arum (try to Google the two words together), yet all of the genus Arum are poisonous. This was cleared up when I went to the Araceae which states it is "also known as the Arum family".
Can this be mentioned in this Arum page as well? It is sort of in the disambiguation, but I think it could be made clearer. --Michaeldunn123 (talk) 19:09, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Arum flowers as food
[edit]Arum flowers are eaten in Suriname. Search for Bandroeja. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.212.116.112 (talk) 10:54, 8 February 2017 (UTC)