Hemlock Water Dropwort, Oenanthe crocata

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10 жыл бұрын

Hemlock Water Dropwort, The most poisonous plant in the UK.
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@xtrakrsipykendra5750 7 жыл бұрын

This is why i have trust issues.

@mewwew411 9 жыл бұрын

10/10 would eat

@codyho9430 8 жыл бұрын

For any idiots reading this he's joking.

@mewwew411 8 жыл бұрын

truc ho or am I?

@pinkamenadainepie 8 жыл бұрын

Good for you

@mewwew411 7 жыл бұрын

good for the soul

@mewwew411 7 жыл бұрын

I mean soil

@markhill5483 6 жыл бұрын

I saw some of this while out walking yesterday.

@jayocaine2946 4 жыл бұрын

thank goodness you're safe, you could have died if you got on your hands and knees and decided to start eating wild leaves off the ground

@bjones5189 4 жыл бұрын

I saw a discussion in the Facebook "I HATE CILANTRO" page, where someone was saying that the gene that makes cilantro taste bad (like soap or stinkbugs) to some of us may have evolved where plants like this one existed. I haven't seen any more research... has anyone familiar with this plant seen this speculation?

@gailwilliams9798 3 жыл бұрын

I have found this away from water in a damp/slightly boggy area

@thomasrussell4674 4 ай бұрын

This poison puts that mushroom in the shade... in the nightshade.

@francesmarie73 8 жыл бұрын

Wasn't poison hemlock used to kill Socrates? The idea of using it is that it caused complete paralysis so the person ed poisoned would feel an agonizing and slow death. I am interested in knowing how much people used to use as a sleep aide?

@WildFoodUK1 8 жыл бұрын

I believe he chose it himself from the execution options available to him :)

@francesmarie73 8 жыл бұрын

+Marlow Renton I will look it up. Is there still poison nightshade in England or Mandrake?

@francesmarie73 7 жыл бұрын

+Marlow Renton Love Socrates already. He chose that his wages should be paid and free dinners for the rest of his life by the government, they chose a mixture with poison hemlock. Satirical humour, my favorite medicine.

@lewis1544 3 жыл бұрын

@@francesmarie73 Light a fire for a man and he's warm for an hour. Light a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

@Nitecrow314 Жыл бұрын

@@lewis1544 You're a sick man...🤣

@justmadeit2 3 жыл бұрын

Marlowe, one thing I've noticed is the American water hemlock has different leaves according to the videos on here, are there different varieties of water hemlock? If so that would explain it. The video from america is right under yours in the search list on a channel called Hidden Florida. Any ideas?

@justmadeit2 3 жыл бұрын

The stem has grooves on it, does it not? I've spotted it near the canal, Its definetly not cow parsley which I recognise by the leaves and flowers.

@samslo4321 2 жыл бұрын

is it safe to drink from water that it grows around such as a lake or a pond also river and stream

@harveyarber8679 6 жыл бұрын

ive herd the tuber is yellow in colour am i wright or misinformed

@saraswatkin9226 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if he is still alive after handling it with bare hands.

@yourmum69_420 Жыл бұрын

you can handle it, just don't eat it. Don't handle giant hogweed though

@popcorndude20 8 жыл бұрын

Beware The Joker

@kolossis8283 Жыл бұрын

I snort this cool plant and I went smilin' for weeks till now. Help😁😁😁

@user-kb7rg6qo1v Жыл бұрын

Isnt Hemlock water dropwort poisonus?

@pemj7360 3 жыл бұрын

They use to call the roots dead man's fingers

@loadapish 5 жыл бұрын

So it's safe to touch?

@WildFoodUK1 5 жыл бұрын

yes, just don't eat it!

@Mirza011 4 жыл бұрын

Giant hogweed is the one you don't want to touch

@lucysommers9444 4 жыл бұрын

It is NOT SAFE to touch. Many references including Kew Gardens cite you should not touch the leaves

@adriansandry2783 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's safe to touch. It is not a contact poison, like the cuckoo pint. And it is not phytotoxic, like giant hogweed, and for some people common hogweed. BUT wash your hands afterwards. Deaths have occurred apparently when children have used the stems, of dangerous Umbelliferae such as hemlock, to make pea shooters. You don't want any of the poison in your mouth. When living in Greece I saw the tiny containers in a museum that were used for holding the juice of hemlock (not water dropwort) to execute prisoners. It doesn't take much.

@lucysommers9444 4 жыл бұрын

Its NOT safe to touch. See Kew Gardens article by one of their botanists...www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deadly-plant-dead-mans-fingers-hemlock-water-dropworts-cornwall-beach-porthkidney-storm-emma-a8255416.html

@Zitacity Жыл бұрын

Can you send me hemlock?

@elizabethgirinde8956 Жыл бұрын

Here in Papua New Guinea, we eat a plant(raw) very similar to that with meat especially barbecued or roasted and that plant grows on water or mostly on wet grounds, so I'm wondering if that's the same plant. Sam talks about it in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q96VnNuAvN-xfnk.html at 4:28

@yourmum69_420 Жыл бұрын

no it's not that one. Or you would be dead

@ernestchadwell9069 11 ай бұрын

No, it's definitely not this one 🤣