Historical Data

hogapple, umbrella plant, wild lemon, wild mandrake. Native to <native>Ohio</native>. The ripened fruit can be eaten in small doses, but the rhizome, foliage and roots are all poisonous. It has been used by American Indians as an emetic, cathartic, and antihelmintic agent. They also boiled the poisonous root, and used the water to cure stomach aches.