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Sunday 10 November 2019

Liquorice



Also called Glycyrrhiza glabra this plant is sweet tasting and produces seeds. Ever since ancient Greece, the liquorice plant has been used as a medicine to treat heart conditions and asthma, while Roman soldiers chewed on liquorice roots in their marches over wet cold terrains. It's part of a Fabaceae family genus that thrives in warm climates. The Greek physician, Dioscorides, shaped the meaning and name of the plant we know. It's also named "sweet grass". Besides medicine, liquorice has been used in tobacco and candies. It can be poisonous in very large amounts.

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Monday 4 November 2019

A few poisonous berries



1. (Hawthorn) These tiny red berries are used in making wine and jam but they're not pleasant to eat raw. Some of them have a bitter taste and others may cause pain. Not to be eaten, and those with a heart disorder should not really consider touching them as raw berries.
2. (Honeysuckle) Avoid eating the seeds of these red berries.


3. (Yew berries) These berries are lethal and highly poisonous. 

4. (Black Bryony) These pretty clusters of bright red berries are extremely poisonous and should not be consumed at all.

5. (Bittersweet) Grown in groups of oval shaped berries, these are also called "Woody Nightshade" and they are really poisonous.

6. (Spindle) The Autumn grows such cute pink berries that are really very poisonous and deadly.

7. (Holly) The luscious looking ruby like berries with the prickly leaves are poisonous and must not be eaten.

8. (Butcher's Broom) Red berries grown among a stabbing prickly plant mustn't be eaten. These are poisonous to humans.

9. (Ivy) A bunch of small black berries are very bad and must not be eaten by anyone.

10. (Tutsan) Part of the St John's Wort family genus, these berries are used in medicines but they're not edible and mustn't be eaten.

11. (Lilly Of The Valley) Red berries grown from this plant are very poisonous.

12. (Black Nightshade) This changes from green and black, and they shouldn't be consumed.

13. (Deadly Nightshade) Extremely toxic black berries.

14. (Dogwood) These black berries are unpleasant tasting and it's advisable not to eat them.

15. (Herb Paris) Poisonous black berries.


(The above list was originally posted on She Wolf Night).