{"id":165549,"date":"2025-12-03T06:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:07:08","slug":"childrens-book-play-wild-recalled-over-unsafe-edible-flower-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165549\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s book Play Wild recalled over unsafe edible flower advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Bateman Books spokeswoman Lise Clayton said the author noticed the inaccuracy while working on a separate piece about edible flowers and alerted the publishing house immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Customers are being informed of the blunder while the corrected books are resupplied, a process expected to take between a week and 10 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut we really want to get the message out there to families who have already purchased the book. We encourage them to turn to p46 and cross out the words \u2018and vegetables\u2019 with a thick marker,\u201d Clare said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">While the flowers of beans, peas, zucchini, salad greens and brassicas can be eaten, nightshade family flora are not edible, including the flowers of potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, aubergines and chillies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Toxic flowers such as those from potatoes usually taste \u201cincredibly hot, astringent and bitter\u201d, meaning tamariki are unlikely to continue eating them, but Clare said \u201cchildren should always check with an adult that a plant from the garden is edible before consuming any part of it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bateman Books spokeswoman Lise Clayton said the author noticed the inaccuracy while working on a separate piece about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2840,1665,74,13851,2108,138,4749,23552,68454,2841,15416,72601,36909,48460,111,139,69,1523,5301,10538,26268,23840,108172,644,19098,45356,46656,15391,80],"class_list":["post-165549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-across","tag-advice","tag-after","tag-author","tag-book","tag-business","tag-childrens","tag-claimed","tag-copies","tag-country","tag-eat","tag-edible","tag-flower","tag-mistakenly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-plants","tag-play","tag-publisher","tag-recalled","tag-recalling","tag-retail","tag-safe","tag-toxic","tag-unsafe","tag-wild","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}