re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

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We had two big rhubarb plants my dad used to keep growing. Strange plant. I never liked it, even my mother’s great pie-making skills weren’t enough to get me interested past initial tastes of rhubarb pie.

One interesting thing about the plant are the leaves. They produce oxalic acid which is used as a wood bleach. It helps removes things like water stains from wood.

I bought some at a hardware store a few years back and didn’t know where that type of acid came from. Rhubard!

So, you cannot eat the leaves!

I cannot eat the stalks…even cooked down with sugar.