Although nature can be incredibly beautiful, it can also be dangerously misleading at times. Out of all the plants in the world, one plant has the dubious distinction of being the deadliest: Aconitum.

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A gardener was killed after apparently brushing against a super-poisonous plant while working on a £4 million country estate. Nathan Greenaway is thought to have touched the toxic flower aconitum, ...

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Diterpenoid alkaloids are a class of nitrogen-containing natural products derived from a diterpene backbone and found predominantly in Aconitum and Delphinium species. They have underpinned key ...