I’ve been wanting to write the Alphabet of Poisons for some time now, and what better time than the 100th post of Natures Poisons. The structures are hand drawn with fountain pens, which you may have noticed in recent posts here and on Twitter, so if there’s a smudge or the bond angles aren’t perfect, that’s why.
There are so, so many poisons and toxins to choose from – especially C, inexplicably there are dozens of poisons that start with C – so if I didn’t include your favorite, let me know, and maybe it will show up in another iteration. I have links to poisons I’ve written about before at the end of the ABCs.
Thank you all for your support over the years, the insightful comments and stories shared are wonderful, so enjoy this special 100th post of Natures Poisons!
Links to Nature’s Poisons posts (I haven’t written about all of them yet, so ones without links are just placeholders):
- Aconitine
- Batrachotoxin
- Cantharidin
- Domoic acid
- Ergotamine
- Fluoroacetate
- Grayanotoxin and another one.
- Hypoglycin
- Ibotenic acid
- Jingzhaotoxin
- Kalkitoxin
- Lycorine
- Moroidin
- Nicotine (blowing smoke) and another one.
- Orellanine
- Pahutoxin
- Quinine
- Resiniferatoxin
- Scopolamine and another one (truth serum)
- Tetrodotoxin
- Urushiol
- Vomitoxin
- Wiatarin
- Xanthotoxin
- Yohimbine
- Zetekitoxin
** Featured image of Amanita muscaria by Bernard Spragg (CC 0) **
