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Yellow Jessamine is a twinging
vine with shinny leaves and yellow flowers that look like trumpets with five
rounded petals. It blooms around here
about the middle of February. It can be
found in dry or wet woods and thickets.
Years ago, root preparations
were used to depress the central nervous system (CNS). It deadened pain and decreased spasms. It was also used externally as a folk
treatment for skin cancer.
HOWEVER!!!! THE PLANT IS DEADLY POISON. Eating a single flower could kill a child or
small person. Decrease of feeling would
start in your legs and go up. It kills
nerve cells, including the ones that make your heart beat and the ones that
allow you to breathe.
My mother told me once
that they placed the vines around the outside edges of the rooms in their house
to kill mice at night. In the morning
they would pick up the dead mice and throw them outside.
If you can’t tell the difference
between Carolina Yellow Jessamine and Japanese Honeysuckle…use someone else’s
brain. It is a pretty plant but I
wouldn’t use that plant for anything except to look at early in the spring.
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