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In This Ancient Garden, Plants Can Cure or Kill You

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Apothecaries founded this famous garden—one of the most ancient botanical gardens in Europe—to teach their students which plants poison and which plants cure.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.7

So the apothecaries founded this space

0:36.5

as somewhere where they could train their students

0:39.3

in how to identify medicinal plants from harmful plants, plants that can kill and cure, so to speak.

0:46.3

In London's neighbourhood of Chelsea, next to the River Tham and enclosed by a tall brick wall,

0:52.3

is a collection of poisonous plants that can kill you.

0:56.5

There are also plants that can treat you when you're sick,

0:58.7

and even plants that many of our modern medicines are derived from.

1:02.2

I'm Shayla Love, and you're listening to Scientific American Science Quickly.

1:05.9

Today, we're paying a visit to the Chelsea Physic Garden,

1:09.1

one of the oldest botanical gardens in Europe with

1:11.6

four acres dedicated to the ancient science of healing. When I first walk inside, it looks like a typical

1:19.8

garden. There's a gravel path that crunches under my feet and twists and turns through crowded

1:24.7

plant beds. But after glancing at the map, it becomes clear I'm in a

1:29.2

different kind of garden. On my right is a poison bed, where the plant signs also include a skull

1:34.3

and crossbones. Maybe we can go to the poisonous plants, because I feel like that's probably a big

1:39.2

draw. Yeah. You don't see that often in botanical gardens. That's adjacent to the garden of useful plants,

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