A toxic tour of the high-security facility with more than a hundred plants that could kill you. “Look, don’t touch” is the motto at Alnwick’s poison garden in Northumberland, unless you’re a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Some poisons are known for creeping slowly through the ...

In pre-Roman times on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, legend has it that Phoenician settlers used a poisonous plant called hemlock water dropwort for the ritual killing of elderly people and the ...