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Lay two specimens on the bench — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow lab.

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Monkshood

Aconitum napellus

Hooded indigo flowers — beautiful, and poisonous to the touch in sap, let alone as a tea.

Flavor

Do not taste. Immediate tingling is a warning, not a spice.

Symptoms

pain, joint pain

In favor

Unmistakable teaching flower

Against

Contact and ingestion poison

Grow lab

Yes

Days to harvest

Bloom in year 2 as an ornamental — never as a drug

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