A TV botanist has revealed that a popular vegan blogger has been decorating her food with poisonous flowers in Instagram photos. James Wong, who regularly appears on CountryFile, said on Twitter that flowers decorating a fruity pink chia seed pudding in a viral photo were highly toxic and could cause vomiting. Her Instagram feed reveals she has decorated several dishes with the toxic flowers, which are PaperWhite Narcissus blooms. 'It may not contain dairy or gluten *gasp* but it does contain the toxic plant alkaloid, lycorine. Several of her followers have highlighted that the flowers are poisonous in comments on her photos.

Source: Daily Mail January 31, 2018 09:01 UTC