Good News: Daffodils Are The Worst

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Daffodils are cheerful symbols of spring… and also cold blooded killers. But it turns out, the poison in these plants may actually be helpful to us humans! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.poison.org/articles/2015-mar/daffodils https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/lycorine https://youtu.be/p71KQM1hc30 https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/03/23/daffodils-kill/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2856661/ (Table 5) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mucilage https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/03/how-to-keep-fresh-cut-flowers-from-dying-with-science/ https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experim

Published 2020-03-10 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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