You don’t fuck with the carrot family. There’s lots of poison in there.

Mint family, violet family (True violets, not African violets) and onion family go crazy. They are pretty much all safe for human consumption. Carrots be cautious

Well that’s a horrifying way to die. Holy jeepers.

I will stick to its cousins, including fennel and carrot.

Eesh, fantastic read. Delightfully macabre.

Also - giant hogweed, which will burn you…https://www.nps.gov/articles/species-spotlight-giant-hogweed.htm

There’s one in every family.

https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/22062/bae_bulletin_128_1941_14_79-137.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

The article links this 1900s ethnographic account of suicide in the Seneca/Iroquois/Huron nations. Super interesting read about the ethnobotany of this plant and the conflicts that drove tribal suicides in the 17th-19th centuries.

I’ve seen lots of this in fens