#Poison Hemlock

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[banefolk]

This tea cup with foxgloves and poison hemlock I found second hand 😭🤌

Yes it most definitely came home with me!

[twistedshipper]

Notes on Poison Hemlock from Plants of the Devil by Corinne Boyer

[tiodolma]

what do you mean, "does he look like a killer?" the force moves darkly near a creature that is about to kill.

[aphermion]

[hersurvival]

i was scrolling through the hemlock tag and saw your post; thus i ask, humbly, to hear everything you know about water hemlock (or poison hemlock, or both, if you prefer).

Ooo, I love that you were just casually exploring the Hemlock tag! I am a Wolf's Bane girl myself when it comes to toxic plants. BUT Hemlock, here we go!

It is part of the carrot family and (as is common in toxic plants) the entire plant itself is toxic but especially the roots and seeds.

I actually love Hemlock because it is so bold yet delicate. They can reach up to 8 feet tall, something about flowering plants that start from nothing but are taller than me in a single growing seasons gets me GOING (Fireweed is my favorite of these, though, not toxic, actually delicious). Anyways! The stems are thick but the leaves and clusters of blossoms are so lacey and elegant. Succubus plant.

Fun fact! At the end of the season, and Hemlock dies back, the stems are hollow and you can find them standing tall still, brown, and "woody." And it's a rite of passage growing up to chase each other with them, like sword fighting. Buuuuut don't do this 🙏 The toxins remain in the stems for several years.

Six to eight leaves is all it takes to have you dead. And as stated, seeds and roots hold the most toxins. I'm not a chemist, pharmacist, scientist in any way. I just like pretty deadly things. But it has a narcotic effect that will lead to paralysis of the respiratory muscles and you'll asphyxiate.

There is no antidote! So watch what you put in your mouth out there! I encourage everyone to try wild native flora, make tea, jelly, put some greens in salads, dry and grind for fancy salts, etc. But do your research 💚

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK

[ilikevintagebooks]

Poison Hemlock

-Common Sense Medical Adviser 1895

[aspenonpawzzz]

Fav flower drop!

I also like poison hemlock, foxglove, wolf’s bane and wild columbine!

[faguscarolinensis]

Conium maculatum / Poison Hemlock on the Flatirons Vista Trail in Boulder, CO

[scrunglemoss]

PrismaticPotions

[garlic-and-cloves]

Oh nooo I just realized I'll have to wear my boots tomorrow because my only other close-toed shoes are hanging out in poison ivy quarantine while I figure out how exactly I'm going to wash them

Ironically enough actually, my boots have just gotten out of poison oak quarantine not that long ago

This is going really well

The only remaining plant for me to get into would be poison hemlock so lets fucking hope that doesn't happen because that would be bad (unfortunately, it's also a lot more likely than poison ivy was - that thing isn't even supposed to grow here!)

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[banefolk]

Coloured engravings of the poisonous plants datura, henbane, and hemlock from American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States by Jacob Bigelow, 1817.

Source: New York Public Library

[neptunethemosasaurus]

YES THERE ARE NON-SAFE FLOWERS!

We’re fanfiction writers, of course:

We’re going to use song lyrics as titles.

We’re going to check for comments 30 seconds after we post something.

We’re going to have more WIPs than days of the week.

We’re going to use any excuse to post snippets.

We’re going to use ask box games to procrastinate.

We’re going to hype up our writer friends.

We’re going to scream, cry and throw up reading our friends’ work.

[tiodolma]

Flower of Poison

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