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Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities

text Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities

Summary

Stewart takes on more than 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations and offers this A-to-Z compendium of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.

Contents
Aconite -- Arrow poisons -- Ayahuasca vine and chacruna -- Betel nut -- Castor bean -- Ordeal poisons -- Coca -- Coyotillo -- Deadly nightshade -- Death camas -- Deadly dinner -- Ergot -- Fatal fungus -- Habanero chili -- Henbane -- The Devil's ba... Read more
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Description
xvii, 235, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2009

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