Neither do the LLMs you used to identify your “wild celery” lol
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ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I know nothing about plants.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I know nothing about plants.
Neither do the LLMs you used to identify your “wild celery” lol
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 year ago
Yeah, I am not botanical enough to get this, but presumably it's something poisonous?
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Apiaceae, the carrot family, is full of wild species that are incredibly poisonous. Basically if it looks like a carrot in the wild dont eat it or you might die.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Same goes for if it looks like a Tomato, those are nightshades and the only ones I know about that aren’t deadly to eat are tomatoes and peppers, and the peppers only because the poison they developed doesn’t kill you it just makes you feel like your entire digestive tract is on fire.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eggplants, potatoes, ground cherries, tomatillos, huckleberries are all edible too. That said you are right, if it is growing in the wild assume it will kill you. Don’t eat it.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Potatoes, believe it or not, are also nightshades.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 year ago
Ah ok, so like Queen Anne's Lace and Poison Hemlock?
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, water hemlock, cowbane, fool’s parsley, wild parsnip, etc, etc.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Yes
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yep. Hemlock is one of them
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Look up “Sardonic Grin”. It’s one of those things that makes you think this is interesting, and also never going to eat wild plants again.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Well, if you are just avoiding Apiaceae (the carrot family) plants aren’t that hard to ID safely and the likelihood of you poisoning yourself should drop by a lot. But yeah, you’d need to learn a bit about plants in the first place and not a lot of people are motivated enough to do that.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or hallucinogenic? Although if there were an easy-to-forage hallucinogen that looked like celery I’m pretty sure I’d know about it.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
A trip down the river Styx
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
The roots of the common reed contain dimethyltryptamine. Not sure if it’s enough to make a tea, never heard of anyone doing it.
Chuymatt@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Hemlock, I believe.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Apparently it is indeed referring to hemlock (Oenanthe crocata):
(From Wiki page on poisonous plants)
But the main wiki page on Oenanthe crocata doesn’t even mention this.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 year ago
Holy fuck, Sardinia. Being dropped from a great height or beaten to death by people I held as babies while tripping sounds like one of the worst ways to go.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Hemlock water-dropwort looks like celery. It causes muscle spasms, which at times results in the victim dying with a grin on their face.
Veritrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks pretty similar to hemlock.