Re: [SG] Aconitum napellus
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Aconitum napellus
- From: D* T* <t*@OZ.NET>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:48:15 -0700
At 08:30 AM 4/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
> Monkshood poisonous? Let me put it this way. For centuries the
Europeans
>used it in bated meat to kill wolves... thus the name Wolfbane for the
>European species.
It certainly is poisonous except to the slugs. How I wish it was! They ate
my Aconitum episcopale vine to death. I am replanting it and standing ready
to slay any slug that dares go near it!
I put off planting this genus until my daughter was old enough to know
better than to touch it. Just didn't want to take a chance with her curious
fingers and mouth.
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