"Les linfoot" wrote in message
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If it was fatal for
Socrates, is hemlock OK for my cryptomeria?
It's not the same hemlock. Not even close. The hemlock Socrates drank was
Conium maculatum (
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/conium.html ). "Your"
hemlock is a tree of genus Tsuga
(
http://www.botanik.uni-bonn.de/conifers/pi/ts/ ). I think it's bark would
be OK for your cryptomeria.