Dog owners 警告するd to look out for poisonous 工場／植物 after it's linked to deaths of several pets

By Jo Tweedy For Mailonline

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Dog owners have been 警告するd to keep an 注目する，もくろむ out for a 工場／植物 that could 害（を与える） their pets - after a 洪水／多発 of deaths in Northern Ireland were linked to the hemlock 工場／植物.?

The 工場／植物, often given the longer 指名する of?Hemlock Water Dropwort, 含む／封じ込めるs alkaloids which attack the nervous system, which can 原因（となる） breathing difficulties, paralysis and even death in 国内の animals.?

It's also harmful to humans, with its roots 存在 the most 有毒な part.?

A dog became ill and later died while out walking in Lough Neagh in 郡 Antrim this month, with the animal's death thought to be かもしれない 原因（となる）d by （危険などに）さらす to the?poisonous 工場／植物. Several other canine deaths have been 報告（する）／憶測d in the area.?

Pet owners are being warned to keep animals away from hemlock, after the deaths of several dogs in Northern Ireland were linked to it

Pet owners are 存在 警告するd to keep animals away from hemlock, after the deaths of several dogs in Northern Ireland were linked to it?

The white blooms pictured close up

The white blooms pictured の近くに up

Hemlock: The UK's most potent 工場／植物??

In 古代の Greece, hemlock was used to kill 非難するd 囚人s, most famously the philosopher Socrates in 399BC.

Its botanical 指名する Conium maculatum comes from the Greek word ‘konas’ meaning to whirl around, because it 原因（となる）s trembling before death.

In Agatha Christie’s 殺人 mystery Five Little Pigs (1943), the painter Amyas Crale is killed when he is given a hemlock-laced beer to drink.

Some birds do not get 毒（薬）d by hemlock, such as larks and quails. But by eating it, they become just as poisonous as the 工場／植物.

予定 to its sedative 所有物／資産／財産s, Greek and Persian 内科医s used it to 扱う／治療する arth ritis. But they had to stop as it was 平易な to give an accidentally 致命的な dose.

The 指名する hemlock comes from the Anglo-Saxons, who also used it in their 薬／医学, and it means ‘shore 工場／植物’.

An old English legend had it the purple streaks on the 茎・取り除く 代表するd the brand on Cain’s brow after he had 殺人d his brother Abel in the Old Testament.

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A damp spring is thought to have led to a bumper 刈る of the 工場／植物, which can grow in 超過 of five feet tall.

Hemlock has clusters of tiny white flowers on long 茎・取り除くs with?green leaves flecked with red 示すs.

Arguably the most 悪名高い of poisonous 工場／植物s, it was a recurring 成分 in Shakespearean potions and used in 死刑執行s in 古代の Greece, most 顕著に that of Socrates.?

The 工場／植物 is a member of the Apiaceae or Umbellifer family, and grows 井戸／弁護士席 in the UK and Northern Ireland 気候.?

There are 関心s it is finding its way into people's gardens, who may mistake it for 類似の 工場／植物s such as Cow Parsley, which is edible.?

A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland 環境 機関 (NIEA) said?a 場所／位置 査察 on May 23 had 設立する 'a large 量 of 有毒な but 公正に／かなり ありふれた Hemlock Water Dropwort' and 述べるd it as 'perhaps the most poisonous indigenous 工場／植物.'

Signage has since gone up around the beauty 位置／汚点／見つけ出す to 警告する pet owners.??

Hemlock's 毒（薬） 原因（となる）s the 工場／植物 to 放出する a foul smell, which botanists have compared to the odour of mouse urine.?

普通は reaching 高さs of between three and six feet, some seen on 道端 瀬戸際s and waste-ground have been much higher.?

支援する in March, a walker in Carbis Bay, Cornwall 設立する roots, the most potent part, from the 有毒な 工場／植物 on the beach.? ??

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