>>1544753QAL (Daucus carota) also helps prevent pregnancy, to a small degree, by interrupting the sperm's ability to either find or penetrate the egg, I can't remember which. Women who are pregnant or are thinking about becoming pregnant soon shouldn't consume QAL.
>Ever tried cooking with them?Not really worth it. They taste like a slightly bitter carrot. The bad part is that you need to harvest the 1st year plants, which do not flower until their second year. If you saved seed from a known QAL flower that is properly identified then go for it, plant them, harvest them in their first season, but harvesting wild 1st season QAL to eat is rather dangerous since there's 5-7 toxic look alikes, depending on where you live.
I've made country wind and mead with the QAL flowers before. In fact I have 6 gallons sitting behind me that's been there since like 2009 I think. I just need to bottle it.
>chicken of the forestLaetiporus sp. is normally called, "chicken of the woods," so it is better to use scientific names for wild stuff.
