{"product_id":"poisonous-plants-and-fatal-fungi","title":"Poisonous Plants And Fatal Fungi","description":"The Lore and Lure of Deadly Botanicals\nby Sandra Kynes\n\nPaperback, 304 pages\nPublished October 2025\n\nExplore humanity's fascination with death through toxic flora and how they have affected history, magic, warfare, art, and more.\n\nSandra Kynes shares sixty detailed profiles divided into five themes, from classic killers to frightful fungi. Each profile includes the plant's history, folklore, and medicinal uses, as well as how it may or may not be used today.\n\nAconite *  Birthwort *  Buttercup *  Daffodil *  Deadly Nightshade *  Death Cap *  Ergot *  Foxglove *  Funeral Bell *  Hemlock *  Liberty Cap *  Mandrake *  Mistletoe *  Oleander *  Pokeweed *  Poppy *  Tobacco *  Wormwood\n\nDispatching people with poisonous plants isn't just an Agatha Christie plot - it began thousands of years ago and continues to this day. From penny-dreadful novels to true-crime television programs, we seem to have a penchant for ghoulishness. This book feeds our curiosity through detailed investigations of the murky roots of toxicol","brand":"Llewellyn Worldwide","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43518363467835,"sku":"9780738778617","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0596\/3159\/9675\/files\/0da0060fc88976cd6643a2dddbec79b5c3a36518ad97aa23fa0a899deb74fc0f.jpg?v=1778954787","url":"https:\/\/fireandember.org\/products\/poisonous-plants-and-fatal-fungi","provider":"Fire \u0026 Ember","version":"1.0","type":"link"}