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Veratrum nigrum, the black false hellebore,[2][3] is a widespread Eurasian species of perennial flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae.[1][4] Despite its common name, V. nigrum is not closely related to the true hellebores, nor does it resemble them.
The plant was widely known even in ancient times. For example, Lucretius (ca. 99 BCE – ca. 55 BCE) and Pliny the Elder (23 AD – August 25, 79) both knew of its medicinal emetic as well as deadly toxic properties.[5]
^ abKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^Bonine, Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden, 2009, p. 75.
^Toogood, The Gardener's Encyclopedia of Perennials, 1988, p. 144.
^Barceloux, Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances, 2008, p. 815.
^Lucretius Of the Nature of Things, Thomas Creech, ed., 1714, p. 363.
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