Still alive and well.
No ill feelings at all.
I am not always in touch with the internet and I use no phone so I can not always identify a plant immediately.
My long story is that I dropped my business, my car and money to live outside and though I have heard to "never touch or eat anything unless it is positively identified", I also realize that the two books that I do have (being highly rated and covering "most" of the eastern half of the United States), they can be a little lacking.
I have seen too many plants to just throw anything into my mouth but having seen this yellowing plant appear "everywhere", I figured that people would have either tried to poison it to death by now or it would have been spoken of like "poison ivy" or also that it would have been more apparent in one of my books or easy to find on the internet but after a good month of finding nothing about it, I just had to give it a try.
I have read of people eating poison ivy and having no reactions while touching it would cause for worse to the same person.
but I have also read of "death from taste" and stomach torment and etc etc etc.
Some times, you just need a little more faith in the Earth than to rely on a society so great and in numbers that cares more about money and plastic and exhaust before ever caring to identify the plants around their family.
and hey, if it hurts me, then I know to never touch it again.
and if kills me, then we all die, right?
