SciShow: Good News: Daffodils Are The Worst

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Content of the Lesson: 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/experiments/colorful-carnations/ https://journals.ashs.org/jashs/view/journals/jashs/122/2/article-p263.xml https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030442389090044F https://journals.ashs.org/jashs/view/journals/jashs/123/1/article-p146.xml https://www.nature.com/articles/213595a0 https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/archive/n/narciclasine.html https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auxin https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48531636.pdf https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1934578X1501000138 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3282671/ https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-016-0291-0 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00425-012-1632-z https://theflorist.co.uk/freshnews/1029-curse-of-the-deadly-daffs https://flowerduet.com/mixing-daffodils-with-other-cut-flowers/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15003420 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2856661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27542176 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Narcissi_Encylopaedia_Londinensis.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lycorine.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Narciclasine.svg https://freesound.org/people/divenorth/sounds/215558/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippocrates.jpg


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