Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical AtrocitiesĪ tree sheds poison daggers a glistening red seed stops the heart a shrub causes intolerable pain a vine intoxicates a leaf triggers a war. It's said that jimson weed, named after Jamestown, made many of the first settlers sick. Though there are no illegal plants, like cannabis, the garden does have some that are dangerous, like jimson weed. They feature scores of examples of plants that make you sick, make you hallucinate, and a few that can even kill.
This summer, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is showcasing many of these "evil plants" among its lily ponds and greenhouses. "Then she killed him with antifreeze." Stewart says the woman is on death row.
"He landed in the hospital and he survived," she says. She says the woman's plan didn't work because she didn't give him enough. "There's a woman in Southern California who tried to murder her husband with oleander," says Stewart, who has written several books on gardening. For instance, oleander may have beautiful flowers, but if you ingest enough of it, your heart will stop. Stewart says people don't realize that many plants have protective poisons to defend themselves from bugs and animals, including humans. In her new book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, author Amy Stewart focuses on plants that are illegal, dangerous - even deadly.
Beyond the flowers, butterflies and vegetables, something dark is lurking in the garden. Things are not as placid and peaceful in the plant kingdom as you might believe. The poison sumac tree apparently changed the life of one of the designers of New York's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted.
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