{"id":6091,"date":"2014-08-26T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2014-08-27T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T06:55:32","slug":"the-telegraph-discovers-that-plants-can-be-poisonous-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/08\/26\/the-telegraph-discovers-that-plants-can-be-poisonous-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock Horror \u2013 The Telegraph discovers that plants can be poisonous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's good to be back. \u00a0The Daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/11054977\/Project-promoted-by-BBC-spreads-poisonous-wild-flowers-across-Britain.html\">Telegraph<\/a>, every-ready to bash the BBC, has splashed an hysterical story about corn cockle [Agrrostemma githago] seeds being distributed in packages c\/o Kew Gardens and the Countryfile programme. \u00a0 You'd think the country was now awash with them (fat chance), the way that\u00a0vigilantes are roaming the highways and byways\u00a0looking for the evil weed. \u00a0What will these urban types worry about\u00a0next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2014\/08\/Unknown-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6092\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2014\/08\/Unknown-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Unknown-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Corn cockle (a member of the Pink family) used to be a common weed of corn fields, and, because it ripens in July and August, the poisonous seeds got threshed out with the corn and found their way into grain and hence into \u00a0bread, etc. \u00a0This can still happen in countries where seed is not cleaned and dressed. \u00a0Here, sadly, you'd be as likely\u00a0to see a corn cockle in a corn field as a cornflower. \u00a0Dear me!<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, if I worried about poisonous plants, I'd never\u00a0leave the house. \u00a0Personally, I find that the best way to avoid being poisoned by plants is not to eat them in the first place \u2013 especially their seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental education anyone?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's good to be back. \u00a0The Daily Telegraph, every-ready to bash the BBC, has splashed an hysterical story about corn cockle [Agrrostemma githago] seeds being distributed in packages c\/o Kew Gardens and the Countryfile programme. \u00a0 You'd think the country...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}