B is for Botany: The Corpse Flower & Hemlock

In this episode Casey and Karen get down and dirty with plants. Karen covers the old (The Magna Carta Yew) and the stinky (The Corpse Flower). Casey goes dark and tackles the plant that killed Socrates, hemlock.

Artwork: Jovana Stekovic
Logo:  nydaaa
Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod 

Karen's Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/legend-says-ankerwycke-yew-witnessed-signing-magna-carta-180954373/
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/runnymede/features/ankerwycke
https://www.treehugger.com/year-old-tree-witnessed-magna-carta-signing-4866961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankerwycke_Yew
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/stable/pdf/41515102.pdf?ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%2F5187&refreqid=search%3A331f8f14fd1b0b4de5054c132479d822
https://www.edenproject.com/learn/for-everyone/plant-profiles/titan-arum
https://www.britannica.com/plant/Titan-arum

Casey's Sources:
https://www.healthline.com/health/hemlock-poisoning
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Socrates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates
https://www.biography.com/scholar/socrates

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