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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Biodiversity@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 年前

Meet the Most Toxic Plant in North America

www.atlasobscura.com

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Meet the Most Toxic Plant in North America

www.atlasobscura.com

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"Those who eat it will die in two hours."
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    Well that’s a horrifying way to die. Holy jeepers.

    I will stick to its cousins, including fennel and carrot.

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    You don’t fuck with the carrot family. There’s lots of poison in there.

    Mint family, violet family (True violets, not African violets) and onion family go crazy. They are pretty much all safe for human consumption. Carrots be cautious

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      I was specifically told this by a master forager and take it to heart. No sardonic grins today, fam.

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    Eesh, fantastic read. Delightfully macabre.

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    Also - giant hogweed, which will burn you…https://www.nps.gov/articles/species-spotlight-giant-hogweed.htm

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    There’s one in every family.

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    I’ve seen lots of this in fens

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    https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/22062/bae_bulletin_128_1941_14_79-137.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

    The article links this 1900s ethnographic account of suicide in the Seneca/Iroquois/Huron nations. Super interesting read about the ethnobotany of this plant and the conflicts that drove tribal suicides in the 17th-19th centuries.

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