Conium maculatum

You may know Conium maculatum as hemlock or Socrates’ bane. Druids name it, the carrot you only eat once.

Here is depicted sufficient of the carrot you only eat once to poison everyone in these parts.





Yet oddly, the deadly poison has no effect on black swallowtail caterpillars. But what would happen if you ate this caterpillar? Could it be, the caterpillar you only ate once?





Flies really like, the carrot you only eat once. So. Is the nectar, poison? Is the pollen, poison? Could you only eat these flies, once?




Well heck. Ray and me decided, mostly because we like flies and wish to help the flies, that we wanted to try and cultivate, the carrot you only eat once. That’s right. We decided we need to grow some at the CB.

Yet we need to be careful not to eat any. Not even once!