Deadly plants of Europe
12 plants and mushrooms, and the giveaway feature
Garden classics
- Yew: taxine, only the red aril flesh is safe
- Foxglove: soft and downy rosette, purple bells
- Lily of the valley: two sheathing leaves, odorless
Umbellifers and relatives
- Hemlock: smooth spotted stem, mousy odor
- Water hemlock: hollow root, oozes yellow sap
- False hellebore: alternate pleated leaves (not gentian)
Deceptive berries and flowers
- Deadly nightshade: single black berries, star-shaped calyx
- Datura: white trumpet flower, 2-5 seeds kill
- Oleander: very bitter, bay laurel-like leaves
The bulb, the root, the mushroom
- Autumn crocus: leaves without petiole or smell, bitter
- Monkshood: blue helmet-shaped flowers, kills through skin
- Death cap: no symptoms for 6 to 24 hours
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