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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
LegalDeadly
Henbane
Hyoscyamus niger
Sticky, dingy-yellow bells with purple veins — the witches’-herb and medieval beer-plant that is now a labeled poison-garden specimen only.
Flavor
Do not taste. Heavy, narcotic green if you crush a leaf — that is the warning.
In favor
Teaches the tropane toxidrome with datura and belladonna
Against
Fatal at garden doses
Days to harvest
Bloom in 80–120 days as a poison-garden show — never as a drug
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