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deadly carrots
Thapsia
Thapsia, commonly known as the deadly carrots, is a small genus of poisonous plants in the family Apiaceae. Their center of diversity is around the western Mediterranean, extending into the Atlantic coasts of Portugal and Morocco. Some species are used in traditional medicine.
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first
villous deadly carrot
speciesThapsia villosa
Italian Thapsia
speciesThapsia garganica
Thapsia gummifera
speciesThapsia gummifera
Thapsia transtagana
speciesThapsia transtagana
Thapsia foetida
speciesThapsia foetida
Thapsia minor
speciesThapsia minor
Thapsia tenuifolia
speciesThapsia tenuifolia
Thapsia nitida
speciesThapsia nitida
Asclepios Fennel
speciesThapsia asclepium
Thapsia nestleri
speciesThapsia nestleri
Thapsia scabra
speciesThapsia scabra
Thapsia eliasii
speciesThapsia eliasii
Thapsia meoides
speciesThapsia meoides
Thapsia dissecta
speciesThapsia dissecta
Thapsia gymnesica
speciesThapsia gymnesica
Thapsia thapsioides
speciesThapsia thapsioides
Thapsia platycarpa
speciesThapsia platycarpa
Thapsia laciniata
speciesThapsia laciniata
Thapsia maxima
speciesThapsia maxima
Thapsia pelagica
speciesThapsia pelagica
Thapsia smittii
speciesThapsia smittii
Thapsia cinerea
speciesThapsia cinerea
Elaeoselinum fontanesii
speciesElaeoselinum fontanesii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.310
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.786
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.701
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1474
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.374
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.574
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.568
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.254
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Thapsia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 353456.