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Conium maculatum (cigue tachetee; cigue maculee; deadly hemlock; poison hemlock; poison-hemlock; poison parsley)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Conium maculatum (hemlock or poison hemlock) is a highly poisonous biennial plant herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and North Africa.
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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  A very poisonous plant, the toxins are especially concentrated in the seed; The stems contain up to 0.06% of the toxic alkaloids, the leaves between 0.03 and 0.8%, the flowers from 0.09 to 0.24% and the green fruit from 0.73 to 0.98%; The toxins, however, are very volatile and decompose readily; The toxins paralyse the respiratory nerves, causing death by suffocation; Children have been known to die after using the hollow stems as blowpipes; The poisonous nature of the plant varies considerably, with many people believing that the plant is less toxic when grown in cooler climates;
Lifespan [1]  Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  The whole plant has a foetid smell.
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
Width [1]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe heraclei[5]
Peronospora crustosa[5]
Puccinia conii[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Sylvilagus bachmani, Joseph A. Chapman, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 34, pp. 1-4 (1974)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0