This Week's Episode of Identify the Plant

I think he was showing a picture of poke weed roots.

Yes, I see that now, but wiki says the tiger lily has a root mass that is edible. I have dug up bulbs and root masses that look similar to his photo under lilies.

Apparently, both lily BULBS and daylily TUBERS are edible. See post 81.

Just came across this... could that be ‘Wild Lettuce” it’s a natural form of a non-opiate pain killer?

Ewell Gibbons would be telling me the benefits of wild asparagus. He was a pretty healthy and robust old fellow.

It turned out to be what folks call Poke weed, that poke salad is made from. One must boil the leaves (never the flower pods or the stems) to extract the toxins before consuming.

Exercise an iota of care and common sense around weeds like this, or any plant that might secret a milky latex appearing sap.

He was a pretty healthy and robust old fellow.

Really?.... he was like 64 when he past... I'd better get my stuff in order, me like most of us here, is fast approaching that number, if not already passed it.

And watching the grape nuts commercials as a child,... I thought he was a lot older...

fyi,...

Euell Theophilus Gibbons was an outdoorsman and proponent of eating wild foods during the 1960s.

Wikipedia

Born: September 8, 1911, Clarksville, TX

Died: December 29, 1975, Selinsgrove, PA

He should have stuck with the wild asparagus, not the wild mushrooms.

Just kidding, and certainly no offense meant to Ewell or his relatives.

I wish he was still around.

In 1911 the life expectancy for a man born in 1911 was only 50 years. (I believe this excludes war effects on mortality.) So Euell exceeded this by 28%.

Your link was broken.... what was the life expectancy in 1975?

That link still works for me. I did edit the posting for better clarity.

White men in the US born in 1975 have a life expectancy of 68.8 years at their birth. All people born in 1911 have no life expectancy today.

after seeing him on the grape-nut commercials,... I thought he was already a fossil. I was surprised he was as young as he was...

but then again... Unlike at the time the show 'The Beverly Hillbillies' was out... I've changed also and I now think the reruns that Jane Hathaway is hot. lol....

You might get those eyes checked.

Lol..

...depends on which bar the occupant born in 1975 hangs out in.

And how close it is to last call...

64 was much older in 1975, than it is more than 4 decades later, today.....in most places.

Having Marfans syndrome and a related aortic aneurysm is nothing to sneeze at either. He was probably very healthy for the cards he was dealt in the time he lived.

an aortic aneurysm is a time bomb waiting to burst. I had to look up Marfans syndrome. Genetic abnormalities is hard to get away from.

I had worked with a guy about 10 years ago, he was about 34. Always acted like he had a cold, hacking up and blowing his nose like the elephants escape from the circus.

We had to come in on a Saturday and he was in, it was about 5:30-6:00 in the morning and he had his horn section going.... and I asked him if there's anything wrong,... he said it was allergies due to pollen. The drive into work on the radio the weather report give the pollen count which was extremely low.

I told him he should get a second opinion and passed on the report I heard that morning. He promptly told be to phuk off. And promptly went back to his nose bugle. Well, as annoying as his horn section was,...I did what I could,... that guy was the company's president's pet,... (regular 'yes' man at other peoples expense)

Later that year I moved on, and about (4) years later, a friend of mine who still worked there told me this guy just died at the age of 38. He told me what he had and I can't recall, William something syndrome, It's genetics but very rare, I believe the blood vessel walls gets thin or weak something,... it starts in the sinuses with systems similar to an allergy's or a cold.

As it turned out,... if he would have gotten a second opinion, he may still be around today... because its only curable in the very early stages.

but back to Euell,... I don't dispute 64 years old at the time was pretty good, the point I was trying to make, when I watch him,... through the eyes of a kid, I thought he was like 80-90 years old.