Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

Snowdrops are pretty prolific in the woods right now, but there are also these splashes of colour to enjoy

Today's Falcon flower photo of the day has all you need to answer "whatplantisthisthen "

click to enlarge

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Winter Aconite?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Winter Aconite?

It is, pretty colourful and cheerful and quite toxic according to wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eranthis_hyemalis

All parts of the plant are poisonous when consumed by humans and other mammals, because it contains cardiac glycosides similar to those present in Adonis vernalis. Glycosides of this type stimulate the heart when administered in small doses, but in very large doses may cause serious, often irreparable heart damage. Poisoning symptoms include colicky abdominal pains, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, disturbed vision, dyspnea, bradycardia and, in severe cases, cardiac arrest. Specific cardiac glycosides present in E.hyemalis include Eranthin A and B, belonging to the bufadienolide group, also found in (and named for) the toad venom bufotoxin.

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Today's Robin of the Day from the trail cam

Neil

[myglaren]

It is, pretty colourful and cheerful and quite toxic according to wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eranthis_hyemalis

All parts of the plant are poisonous when consumed by humans and other mammals, because it contains cardiac glycosides similar to those present in Adonis vernalis. Glycosides of this type stimulate the heart when administered in small doses, but in very large doses may cause serious, often irreparable heart damage. Poisoning symptoms include colicky abdominal pains, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, disturbed vision, dyspnea, bradycardia and, in severe cases, cardiac arrest. Specific cardiac glycosides present in E.hyemalis include Eranthin A and B, belonging to the bufadienolide group, also found in (and named for) the toad venom bufotoxin.

Neil

I grow large poppies, including opium poppies as it happens, and a neighbour saw them and said when he lived further up the road, on the main drag, the police had rolled up and confiscated all their poppies, of the same variety and also the aconitum they had.

His wife had planted them and he knew very little about flowers despite teaching something about trees at Sunderland University.

Must add some to my poison garden. Have deadly nightshade and foxgloves to put in soon.

[bobins]

It would appear to be a little bit daft of the police to confiscate his opium poppies (Papaver somniferum) as - not only are they a widely grown ornamental - I think you'd need to grow quite a few to <ahem> get anywhere with them

[Rp0thejester]

I think it's raining....so many floods tomorrow can't wait....

[myglaren]

Indeed, something of an overreaction. Mine are not visible from the street and there are a lot of them, not just the opium ones though.
Collecting the seed heads the sap that seeps out is what opium is made from and as you say, there is very little of it in an individual plant.

[CitroJim]

I think it's raining....so many floods tomorrow can't wait....

It was! I drove home last night in absolutely biblical torrential rain... It started as I departed and remained so for the entire 120 miles...

I did not appreciate just how much it had rained up here until I saw our River Lovat this morning during my run.

Very muddy and right up to the top of the banks. Within an inch of flooding the meadow...

The ducks liked it

[Stickyfinger]

Just to replace one of yesterday's misplaced posts

Ekkk.....I thought that was Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars !

[Hell Razor5543]

Just to replace one of yesterday's misplaced posts

Ekkk.....I thought that was Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars !

Nah, the Emperor is better looking!

[mickthemaverick]

I can see where you're coming from Alasdair,:

BFTW

If only I had his hair!

BFTW

[Hell Razor5543]

I know I'm no oil painting. When somebody tried to paint my portrait the oil paints asked to be refined into fuel, so that they could be burned instead. They said it would be less painful!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Fresh out of the trail cam tin, nothing added nothing taken away

The familiar common blackbird takes a nice close up pose for the camera.

POTD bird of the day.

Neil

[Gibbo2286]

I bought my daughter a trail cam for her lakeside place in Maryland, she had a lot of pictures of half deer they moved too fast.