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Conium maculatum, known as hemlock (British English) or poison hemlock (American English), is a highly poisonous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and North Africa. It is herbaceous without woody parts and has a biennial lifecycle. A hardy plant capable of living in a variety of environments, hemlock is widely ...
Spotted Water Hemlock is internally poisonous (ingesting can be fatal), and giant hogweed is both internally and externally poisonous. Touching this plant can lead to severe chemical burns.
Even just touching the plant can make a human sick, and an animal could die from ingesting less than 500 grams of the plant. To remove poison hemlock, the plants must be dug up, being careful not ...
Conium maculatum (poison hemlock) is infamous in its use as a poison. [35] [36] A small overdose of extract of the plant causes paralysis with higher toxic doses causing a ceasing of respiratory function followed by death. [31] Poison hemlock was historically used in official executions and assassinations. [37]
The poisonous plant blends in with nonpoisonous plants and grows all across Missouri, blooming from now until September, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. Poison hemlock is ...
The history of coniine is understandably tied to the poison hemlock plant, since the natural product was not synthesizable until the 1880s. [7] Jews in the Middle East were poisoned by coniine after consuming quail in the area that usually ate hemlock seeds, and Greeks on the island of Lesbos who also consumed quail suffered from the same poisoning, causing myoglobinuria and acute kidney ...
Poison hemlock plants are back in Central Ohio: Here's what you need to know about North America's deadliest plant
The hemlock moth (Agonopterix alstroemeriana), also known as the defoliating hemlock moth or poison hemlock moth, is a nocturnal moth species of the family Depressariidae. Of Palaearctic origin, it was first found in North America in 1973 when it was accidentally introduced. [ 1 ]