Aconitum
See also: Aconite (homonymy)
The kind Aconitum (the aconites , family of the Renonculacée S) gathers a certain number of plants often pushing in mountain, whose flowers seem capped with a helmet and who contain Alcaloïde S poisons, of which the Aconitine, mortal poison for the man and many animals.
Characteristics of the kind
The aconites are herbaceous hardy perennials with stock tuberose, whose sheets are webbed with lobed divisions. The flowers form set up bunches. The perianth is composed of 5 petaloid parts, the higher in the shape of helmet sheltering of the nectaries intended to attract the pollinating insects (bees, bumblebees). Many cheesecloths. The fruit is made of 5 follicules. There exists a hundred species distributed in the moderate areas of the Northern hemisphere, practically all poisons, several mortals.
Aconitum napellus is the most toxic plant of Europe: according to the specialists, it would be enough to introduce between 1 to 3 grams of its root to cause a reaction mortal in the hour which follows.
Principal species
- Aconitum will anthora L. - Aconit Anthore
- Aconitum ferox Wall. ex Ser. - wild Aconite
- Aconitum lycoctonum L. - Aconite wolf's bane
- Aconitum napellus L. - Aconite napel
- Aconitum variegatum L. - mixed Aconite
External bonds
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