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Wild "Poisonous" Plant of The Week 8 - The Funeral Bell Mushroom

Botanical name: Galerina marginata. Common names: Deadly Skullcap, Funeral Bell Alan Rockefeller, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Seasona...

Wild Plant Of The Week 2 "Monkshood" - DO NOT EAT!!!!

Botanical name: Aconitum napellus Common name: Aconite, Wolf's Bane, Dog's Bane, Mouse Bane, Devil' Hemet, Devil's Hood, Old Wive's Hood, Leopard's Bane, Soldier's Helmet, Queen of Poisons, Blue Ro...

Wild Poisonous Plant Of The Week 13 - The Daffodil

Botanical name: narcissus pseudonarcissus Common name: Daffodil, Distribution: Common throughout much of the temperate area. Most commonly found in woodlands and grasslands. Time of year: March, A...

WIld Plant Of The Week 4 - Poison Hemlock

Botanical name: Conium maculatum Common name: Poison Hemlock, Stink Flower, Badman’s Oatmeal, Curtains, Cartwheel, Devil’s Bread, Best places to find: Woodland clearings, road sides, along waterco...

Wild Edible Of The Week 49 "Blackthorn"

Botanical name: Prunus spinosa Common name: Blackthorn, Sloe Physical appearance: A tough, woody shrub that has small leaves and vicious thorns. In late Summer, it produces berries also know as "s...

Wild Edible of the Week 52 "Three Cornered Leek"

Botanical name: Allium triquetrum Common name: Three-Cornered Leek Physical appearance: It has a flat, long leaf with a central ridge. The flower stem has a triangular cross section, giving the pl...

Wild Plant Of The Week 54 "Stinkhorn"

Botanical name: Phallus impudicus Common name: Stinkhorn,Common Stinkhorn, Pricke Mushroom, Deadman's Cock, Witch's Eggs (refers to the early stage of development). Physical appearance: Initially ...

Tropical Wild Edibles - Strawberry Guava

Botanical name: Psidium cattleyanum Common names: Strawberry Guava, Cheery Guava, Chinese Guava, Cattley Guava (named after British horticulturalist William Cattley). Family: Myrtaceae Physical ap...

Wild Edible Of The Week 50 "Vetch"

Botanical name: Vicia sativa Common name: Vetch, Poor Man's Peas, Bush Vetch, Common Vetch Physical appearance: Small slender leaves, which grow in opposing pairs on a stem which ends with fine cu...

Wild Plant Of The Week 55 "Himalayan Balsam"

Botanical name: Impatiens glandulifera Common name: Himalayan Balsam, Policeman's Helmet, Bobby Tops, Copper Tops Physical appearance: An highly invasive, non-indigenous species, originally nativ...