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The milky sap of this plant is toxic, and may cause blindness if it comes in contact with the eye. Sheep can surprisingly eat this with no problem, but not horses or cattle. |
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The violet scented spring snowflake is dedicated to St. Agnes, the patron saint of young virgins due to its loveliness and purity, and is often referred to as St. Agnes's flower. John Parkinson, the great seventeenth-century English botanist, listed the snowflake in A Garden of Pleasant Flowers in 1629 as the "great bulbous violet". Early American nurseryman Joseph Breck referred to snowflakes in The Flower Garden (1851) as "great snowdrops" while Henderson's Handbook of |
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Native Americans introduced the first colonists to pokeweed, and they in turn delivered it back to Europe where it became a popular vegetable. In addition to eating the young shoots and leaves, Native Americans and early American settlers made a crimson dye from the berry juice. Native Americans from through-out its range used pokeweed concoctions for a wide variety of internal and external medicinal applications. Historically used for syphilis, diphtheria, conjunctivitis, cancer, adenitis and e |
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Star-of-Bethlehem causes potential threats to native vegetation. It has been sold as an ornamental and has escaped to become a weed of landscapes, pastures, hayfields, turf grass, and lawns. The name Star of Bethlehem is mainly in allusion to the six-pointed blooms, but may also have come about because it was used as a famine food by medieval pilgrims to the Holy Land & was to be found growing all around Bethelehem, perhaps planted there by the Christian pilgrims. It was known in Europe in a |
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Dieffenbachia plants can grow outdoors in tropical climates, but specimens kept as houseplants must be kept indoors during most of the year outside the tropics. Temperatures below about 5˚C (40˚F) can kill the plant. The plant needs light but filtered sunlight through a window is usually sufficient. When the plant is brought home from the nursery, it will likely need repotting. The plant needs moderately moist soil. The soil should be fertilized with either regular liquid ferti |
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Carambolas are best consumed when ripe, when they are yellow with a light shade of green. It will also have brown ridges at the five edges and feel firm. An overripe fruit will be yellow with brown spots. The fruit is entirely edible, including the slightly waxy skin. It is sweet without being overwhelming and extremely juicy. The taste is difficult to compare, but it has been likened to a mix of papaya, orange and grapefruit all at once. Star fruit is rich in antioxidants and vitamin C, and |
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These flowers are usually some of the first to bloom in spring, and can even bloom all winter long out of the snow. The Spring Snowflake is a white monocot flower with tinges of green near the tips of the petals. There are six petals. The stem of the flower slowly unzips releasing a new bud every few days that opens up into a little hanging snowflake. The Spring Snowflake can be confused with: Lily of the Valley Herb Flower, White Snowdrop Flower, Acis. Leucojum vernum - Spring Snowflake |
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A Poisonous Plant False Hellebore, Skunk Cabbage, Corn Lily (Veratrum californicum) Grows a tall stalk of white flowers. Could be: Veratrum album, commonly known as the False Helleborine (also known as White Hellebore, European White Hellebore, White Veratrum; |
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Nettle needs moist soil. The stinging hairs of most nettle species contain formic acid, serotonin and histamine. The leaves and stems are very hairy with non-stinging hairs and also bear many stinging hairs (trichomes), whose tips come off when touched, transforming the hair into a needle that will inject several chemicals: acetylcholine, histamine, 5-HT or serotonin, and possibly formic acid. This mixture of chemical compounds cause a sting or paresthesia from which the species derives its co |
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