Ovid ( 43 BC AD 17 / 18 ) has Cerberus'mouth produce venom, and like Euphorion, makes Cerberus the cause of the poisonous plant aconite.
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Substances known to be potentially dangerous include aconite, powdered centipede, the Chinese beetle ( " Mylabris phalerata ", Ban mao ), and certain fungi.
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The common name comes from the early flowering time and the resemblance of the leaves to those of the related genus " Aconitum ", the true aconite.
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Consider these rodent-resistant bulbs : allium, Anemone blanda, chionodoxa, daffodils, fritillaria, leucojum, pushkinia, scilla, snowdrops, Spanish bluebells and winter aconites.
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An overdose of aconite was the method in which Rudolph Bloom, father of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Hannah McKay uses aconite to poison some of her victims.
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An overdose of aconite was the method in which Rudolph Bloom, father of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Hannah McKay uses aconite to poison some of her victims.
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The yellow winter aconite is up, and I keep telling myself to plant thousands more of these little bulbs on the grassy bank that slopes down from our barn in Maryland.
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More cheerful but less dependable is eranthis, a yellow buttercup that grows from bulbs and is also called winter aconite, not my idea of an easy-to-remember common name.
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Another tradition had Cerberus brought up at Heraclea Pontica ( the same place which Xenophon had earlier associated with Heracles'descent ) and the cause of the poisonous plant aconite plant grew up.
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Aconite also plays a prominent role in James Joyce's " Ulysses ", in which the protagonist Leopold Bloom's father used pastilles of the chemical to commit suicide.
