subject: <http://blogs.plos.org/speakeasyscience/2011/02/08/plants-platypuses-poisons-and-oh-yes-paperbacks/>
obj: "Why do I feel this sudden urge to plant a poison garden? Oh, nothing on the scale of the one at Britain's Alnswick Castle (provocative gates pictured at left), but at least a leafy border full of foxglove and monkshood, maybe with a little jimsonweed and poison ivy thrown into the mix. I blame it on my paperback giveaway for The Poisoner's Handbook, actually. so many of the entries concerned lethal vegetation. \"Plants that people do not think are poisonous, but actually ARE, such as Hemlock, Foxglove, Hellebore, Nightshade and Yew,\" wrote one commenter.\u00A0 And here's another: \"Foxglove, clematis, bryony, bloodwort\u2026 the list is endless, it seems. Would be interesting to find out how these were used historically as medicines and poisons.\" And a personal favorite: \"I\u2019ve been reading a lot of gardening catalogs lately, and notice plants marked \u201Cpoisonous, keep seeds away from children and pets.\u201D Could someone (hypothetically of course) grow castor beans, serve them up to granny, and feign"@en-us