poisoning you with style
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Poisoning you with Style
#Killing you softly
WATER HEMLOCK
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Description
Scientific name: -Cicuta maculata
Family:- Carrot Or Parsley
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Description
• Is the most poisonous plant in North America.
• All parts are poisonous.• The most poisonous
part is the roots.• Grows 3 to 6 feet and
spreads to 3 feet.
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Habitat and Range• Typically a wetland
plant, common on pastures or tilled areas
• Common in deep loam, clay loam, or clay soils.
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Life Cycle
• Biennial plant or takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle.
• Perennial plant which persist for growing seasons.
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Reproduction
• It reproduce through seeds.
• Dispersal of seeds are the method of reproduction.
• Dispersion is through wind and water.
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Defense Mechanism• A toxin called cicutoxin,
a violent convulsant, which acts as a stimulant in the central nervous system.
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Defense Mechanism
• Can cause nausea, vomiting, muscle twitch, increased pulse, excessive salivation or frothing at the mouth, and dilation of the pupils, respiratory paralysis when ingested
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Ecosystem Connections
Water Hemlock
• The caterpillars of black swallowtail butterflies eat the leaves, however, transfer the toxicity to their own bodies; predators learn not to eat them.
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Medicinal Uses
• When cut and dried, losses much of its poisonous properties.
• When it mixed betony and fennel seed was considered a cure for the bite of a dog.
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Medicinal Uses
• Used as a medicine for migraine, headaches, painful menstruation, and worms in the intestines.
• Some people apply water hemlock directly to the skin for redness and swelling (inflammation).
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