Learning about nature – water dropwort


Looks a lot like cow parsley, rounder flower clusters.  Prob the most poisonous plant in Britain, cows sometimes die from it.  Responsible for the “sardonic grin” – in Phoenician Sardinia, old people (!) and criminals were killed with it, the grin was one of the effects of the toxin!


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