Wicked Plants
The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities: Library Edition
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The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities: Library Edition
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1 released bookWicked Plants and Bugs is a 5-book series first released in 2009 with contributions by Amy Stewart, Coleen Marlo, and Dariusz Wójtowicz.
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I don't know how much of this I'll retain but I thought it was interesting and well written.
The weed that killed Lincoln's mother was white snakeroot. White snakeroot contains the toxin tremetol; when consumed by cattle, the meat and milk become contaminated with the toxin.
I also want to remember that yew trees are poisonous, I recall Stewart saying ‘every part is poisonous except for the skin of the berry, but the berry has a poisonous seed' or something along those lines.
