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Christmas dinner ingredient or deadly poison?

For each of these scientific names, decide if it's something you would eat at Christmas, or something best avoided.
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Last updated: December 11, 2023
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First submittedDecember 4, 2023
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1. Meleagris gallopavo
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Turkey
2. Vaccinium oxycoccus
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Cranberries
3. Atropa belladonna
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Deadly nightshade
4. Solanum tuberosum
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Potatoes
5. Arum maculatum
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
A poisonous plant which grows across Europe and the Middle East
6. Colchicum autumnale
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Autumn crocus, sometimes tragically and lethally confused with wild garlic
7. Taxus baccata
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
The yew, whose berries are attractive but highly toxic
8. B. oleracea gemmifera
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Brussels sprouts. They may have seemed like poison when you were a kid, but they are not.
9. Convallaria majalis
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Lily of the valley, sometimes confused with wild garlic with very bad results
10. Cortinarius rubellus
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Deadly webcap mushrooms - supposedly very delicious but will destroy your liver and kidneys
11. Pastinaca sativa
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Parsnip
12. Daucus carota
Christmas ingredient ✓
Deadly poison ✓
Yes, this is the carrot
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