{"id":8,"date":"2005-08-13T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-08-13T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T19:48:01","slug":"ricinus-communis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Ricinus communis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricinus communis (Castor bean)<\/p>\n<p>A friend once asked me why I bothered growing castor beans.  Well if not for the foliage, the architectural form, or those cute fuzzy seed pods, maybe it was just to make sure I got on a terrorist watchlist somewhere for being a regular purchaser of seed.  <\/p>\n<p>The plant is highly poisonous (hence deer-resistant) and the beans can be processed to make a very potent poison.  (A local seed company reported a big sale of seed to some guy who turned out just to be disturbed, not dangerous.)  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansci.cornell.edu\/plants\/castorbean.html\">Cornell poisonous plants website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In 1978, ricin was used to assassinate Georgi Markov in 1978, a Bulgarian journalist who spoke out against the Bulgarian government. He was stabbed with the point of an umbrella while waiting at a bus stop near Waterloo Station in London. They found a perforated metallic pellet embedded in his leg that had presumably contained the ricin toxin.<\/p>\n<p><img src='images\/castorbean1.jpg' alt='Castor bean' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='images\/castorbean2.jpg' alt='Castor bean' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricinus communis (Castor bean) A friend once asked me why I bothered growing castor beans. Well if not for the foliage, the architectural form, or those cute fuzzy seed pods, maybe it was just to make sure I got on a terrorist watchlist somewhere for being a regular purchaser of seed. The plant is highly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ricinus communis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}