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Veratrum nigrum
Deadly poisonous — never eat any part of it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Veratrum nigrum, the black false hellebore, is a widespread Eurasian species of perennial flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. Despite its common name, V. nigrum is not closely related to the true hellebores, nor does it resemble them.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Veratrum nigrum
- Slug
- veratrum-nigrum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Veratrum
- Species
- nigrum
- Wikidata QID
- Q158898
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 43
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