| hint | Common Name | Scientific Name |
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| An efficient way to load bunches of this fruit onto boats inspired the chair ski lift. | |
| Also responsible for St. Anthony's fire, this fungus may have caused the 'possession' that led to the Salem Witch Trials. | |
| Eating only this new-world staple can cause pellagra (niacin deficiency). Did this give rise to vampire legends? | |
| Mussolini's men inflicted diarrhea on dissidents by force-feeding oil from this plant. | |
| Hannibal drugged defenders of Carthage with wine from this 'screaming' root. | |
| Common name comes from Jamestown, whose colonists used it to incapacitate the British (their 'trip' lasted 11 days). | |
| Slave women in the Dutch West Indies, wanting to spare their children slavery, used this plant to induce abortion. | |
| In the early 17th century, these flowers inspired a huge speculation bubble. When it burst, the Dutch economy crashed. | |
| Timoleon's men successfully defened Syracuse from the Carthaginians while wearing victory wreaths made of this herb, usually used fresh. | |
| Milk from cows that ate this plant killed Abraham Lincoln's mother and hundreds of other settlers. | |
| Mithridates VI left combs of this toxic honey for invading Romans, then killed the soldiers. | |
| Caribbean tourists are warned about this tree, which blinded woodcutters from Captain Cook's crew for two weeks (and whose sap poisoned Ponce de Leon's fatal arrow). | |
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