Side by side
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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
LegalDeadly
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.
In favor
Unmistakable teaching flower
Against
Contact and ingestion poison
Days to harvest
Bloom in year 2 as an ornamental — never as a drug
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