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Is this flower poison or used as medicinal?

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Olysnium Douglasii edible
 
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Are you sure that is Olysnium Douglasii?  Maybe a closer picture would help.

You picture looked like this to me:

Tuberous Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) is a pretty orchid.

As far as I know it is not edible or medicinal.

Wikipedia says it might be an endangered species depending on where you live:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calopogon_tuberosus

 
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Zooming in, it looks like a tulip, to me. If so, it's toxic: https://plantura.garden/uk/flowers-perennials/tulips/are-tulips-poisonous
 
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Today I learned that I now need to positively identify what I had always called Grass Pink, because what I have in the fields definitely isn't this.
 
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Anne Miller wrote:Are you sure that is Olysnium Douglasii?  Maybe a closer picture would help.

You picture looked like this to me:

Tuberous Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) is a pretty orchid.

As far as I know it is not edible or medicinal.

Wikipedia says it might be an endangered species depending on where you live:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calopogon_tuberosus

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Olysnium Douglasii pink flowers
 
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We'll, it no longer looks like tulips, so... moving on... According to this site, they're medicinal. I've no personal experience with them.
 
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