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What's the joke? What was the plant?
I know nothing about plants.
Neither do the LLMs you used to identify your “wild celery” lol
Yeah, I am not botanical enough to get this, but presumably it's something poisonous?
Looks pretty similar to hemlock.
Or hallucinogenic? Although if there were an easy-to-forage hallucinogen that looked like celery I'm pretty sure I'd know about it.
The roots of the common reed contain dimethyltryptamine. Not sure if it's enough to make a tea, never heard of anyone doing it.
A trip down the river Styx
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.
Yep. Hemlock is one of them
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.
Potatoes, believe it or not, are also nightshades.
Actually I'm pretty sure those can poison you if you don't grab them at the right time
The berries of potatoes are poisonous, just the tubers aren't unless exposed to sunlight.
Yes, and also it can be poisonous later down the line after harvested
And tobacco
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.
Huckleberry varieties are all Nightshades? Does that mean blueberries are Nightshades?
Huckleberries and blueberries are not related closely at all. Huckleberries are in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Blueberries are in the blueberry family, Ericaceae. Their morphologies, or growth forms, are very very different.
When I looked into this what I came away with was there was a single species of nightshade that is sometimes called "Garden Huckleberries", which are unrelated to what are commonly known as "true huckleberries". True Huckleberries are all in the genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia, which are contained in the family Ericaceae, of which "Ericacaea" is either an alternative or misspelling.
Ah ok, so like Queen Anne's Lace and Poison Hemlock?
Yeah, water hemlock, cowbane, fool's parsley, wild parsnip, etc, etc.
Yes
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.