Man who bought the poisonous plant by mistake have been found alive

Can you distinguish between a nordic aconite and a lovage? If not then it is probably a good idea to learn it, otherwise there is the risk that the difficulties which had been made after a visit to a nursery garden in southern Gotland.

A man who visited the garden was looking after the herbaceous plant lovage, and it was also there he thought he had with him when he left the garden.

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mistake: the man had been with nordic aconite, a poisonous plant that, in the worst cases can be fatal. They went out with a call on Facebook where they invited the man to hear of them.

On Monday came the news that the search produced results: the man has been found, and not only that – he lives, and has not eaten of the plant. According to the garden's owner Lars Jonsson, it has been a demanding job to find the right person.

"We have called and gone around in the district and tried to find the person, and in the end we got the fish to bite," says Lars Jonsson.

On the förväxlingen of plants, " says Lars Jonsson ”it should not happen and it may not be done”, and that it is a human mistake.

the risk that the customer would eat of the gibus was a kid, it tastes very bad. This has not prevented some people from criticising trädgårdshandeln in the comments section of Facebook.

" somehow we had no idea it would get these dimensions. I think maybe it sounds more serious than what it is, but the gardener thought it was important to do what you can, that is to say, go out on Facebook. It was then it became viral, " says Lars Jonsson, and adds that he himself did not read the comments on the page.

– So is in such situations, it is very much people who come in and have opinions about the one and the other, he continues.

According to Lars Jonsson, the client wished to maintain the nordic gibus, but he has still been compensated with ”a proper gift”. So maybe there will be a lovage to the end?