Dead Man’s Fingers (Hemlock Water Dropwort)

[RaM]

Hemlock Water Dropwort (Oenanthe crocata), also known as Dead Man’s Fingers
is being washed up on our beach, could end badly if you don't know what it is.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Hem...edge..69i57.1697j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[gordonrutter]

Here’s a direct link to the story

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...umbria-beaches-hemlock-water-dropwort-parsnip

 

[Mikefule]

I used to be a diver. What we knew as "dead men's fingers" was a pale soft coral, Alcyonium digitatum. We usually found it festooning the sides and rails of shipwrecks. Quite atmospheric, but neither poisonous nor parsnipoid.

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[eburacum]

Researchers in Italy have also written that hemlock water dropwort was used in pre-Roman Sardinia for the ritual killing of older people considered a burden.

The plant, it has been said, leaves corpses with what could be described as a sardonic grin.

Sardonic=Sardinia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardonicism

 

[Mythopoeika]

Sardonic=Sardinia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardonicism

Sardines?

 

[RaM]

You learn something new every day, better look out though as am over 70.

 

[maximus otter]

Here’s a direct link to the story

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...umbria-beaches-hemlock-water-dropwort-parsnip

Why did the Groan have to include that its consumption can cause hallucinations? Now we’ll have hippies, Guardian readers and other degenerates combing the beaches of Cumbria…

maximus otter

 

[eburacum]

Sardines?

Yeah; the etymology of the term sardine seems to be connected with Sardinia, where these fish were abundant.

 

[RaM]

Dead mans fingers and now Portuguese man o war.

 

[Frideswide]

Now we’ll have hippies, Guardian readers and other degenerates combing the beaches of Cumbria…

Probably farmers too @ramonmercado

 

[RaM]

And now treasure hunters, Ho well perhaps not.

 

[ramonmercado]

Probably farmers too @ramonmercado

Fish farmers no doubt.

 

[Kondoru]

Ive seen a Man o war.

Or just the float. That one looks very intact.