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    5 days ago

    Is that a Bella Donna? My mum was a nurse, and once told me about one of her patients who went blind from eating it for ‘entertainment’. Luckily for them that effect wore off after a few days.

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        5 days ago

        Ah, thanks. There are quite a few trumpet-flowered plants that look similar. Have just been down a very interesting google wormhole and now realise how many poisonous plants there were in our garden growing up, lol.

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          4 days ago

          True, mum had heaps of poisonous plants in the garden when I was a wee one, but only gave a shit enough to remove them when we got her a little dog