Forgotten flower from the USSR "Slipper" revealed to me a dangerous side

Sometimes I like to look on the internet plants from childhood.

My family had an impressive "hacienda", and part of the area in front of a country house was occupied by large flower gardens. Part of the plant with the "historical" beds I now do not see the cottages. And it gives me special pleasure to look for their names and see photos. Sometimes I share with readers my channel.

Directly in front of our house grew in a number of tall plants with openwork foliage and flowering lilac's slipper. In fact, my family as they are called. But now I have found their legal name.

So, get acquainted. Wrestler, or aconite:

As a child I was very amused by the shape of a flower, and I even wore them on his fingers:

Completely unassuming plant, which does not need maintenance at all.

I was quite surprised to find his picture on the page "most poisonous flowers dacha." Although, as I read the fighter and today is used as an ornamental plant, and all kinds of the attractive flowers are poisonous.

Ancient Gauls and Germans were rubbed with extract of this plant arrowheads and spears, intended for hunting wolves, panthers, leopards and other predators. This is to some extent confirmed by preserved popularly nicknamed aconite - wolf root volkoboy, Slavs - Dog-death pese potion, black potion

Sounds scary, right? But in my photo albums, stored somewhere in the closet, there are children's pictures of me in a thicket of poison fighter. plant properties were not known to anyone, and the flower has never led to problems!