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Profile: Background of the castor bean plant, a poisonous plant that produces ricin

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Gardeners are giving new consideration to a certain common plant in the wake of this week's terrorist arrests in Great Britain. British police discovered members of a suspect terrorist cell had a supply of the deadly poison ricin. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports that ricin is extracted from a plant that just might be in your front yard.

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Ricin comes from ricinus communis, also known ...

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