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This article is about the plant also called wolfsbane. You may be looking for the potion of the same name.

"For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death. A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite."

— Severus Snape during Harry's first Potions class in 1991.^[src]

Aconite (also known as monkshood or wolfsbane) is a plant with magical proprieties. Once widespread, this plant is now only found in wild places. Its flowers are useful in potion-making, but its leaves are very toxic. Aconite is most commonly known as an ingredient of Wolfsbane Potion.^[1] The root of aconite can be used as a potion ingredient.

Behind the scenes

There are over 250 species of Aconitum, the most common of which are known as aconite, monkshood, or wolfsbane.
Aconitum species are highly toxic, although they were used in medicine as a pain-reliever, diuretic, heart sedative, and to induce sweating.^[2]
In medieval Europe, aconite was often used as poison in animal bait^[3] or on arrows used when hunting wolves, hence the herb also became known as wolfsbane.^[4]
Aconite, a member of the buttercup family, was believed to be an important ingredient in witches' flying ointments.^[5]^[6]
On 5 August 2011, it was reported that the local council at Kendal in Cumbria had had aconite planted in a flowerbed in Abbot Hall Park, near a children's playground. They swiftly removed the plants when this error was discovered.^[7]

Appearances

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (First appearance)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
Pottermore

Notes and references

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[1] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - GBC version

[2] ttp://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=HTML&rgn=div1&byte=1610857076

[3] ttp://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=HTML&rgn=div1&byte=1610857076

[4] ttp://books.google.com/books?id=htGD3Y7WNxwC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=aconite+witches+wolves&source=bl&ots=VjL2uk2bNP&sig=qdF2RB_9ejdcPaIq5tw_ZoQTN_0&hl=en&ei=IKM0Tr_yMcjogQfymsCYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=aconite%20witches%20wolves&f=false

[5] ttp://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_aconite.htm

[6] ttp://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=HTML&rgn=div1&byte=1610857076

[7] ttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022449/Bungling-council-staff-plant-deadly-Amazon-arrow-tip-poison-flower-children-s-playground.html

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 </ref> or on arrows used when hunting wolves, hence the herb also became known as wolfsbane.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=htGD3Y7WNxwC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=aconite+witches+wolves&source=bl&ots=VjL2uk2bNP&sig=qdF2RB_9ejdcPaIq5tw_ZoQTN_0&hl=en&ei=IKM0Tr_yMcjogQfymsCYDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=aconite%20witches%20wolves&f=false</ref>
 *Aconite, a member of the buttercup family, was believed to be an important ingredient in witches' flying ointments.<ref>http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_aconite.htm</ref><ref>http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=HTML&rgn=div1&byte=1610857076</ref>
+*On [[5 August]] 2011, it was reported that the local council at Kendal in Cumbria had had aconite planted in a flowerbed in Abbot Hall Park, near a children's playground. They swiftly removed the plants when this error was discovered.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022449/Bungling-council-staff-plant-deadly-Amazon-arrow-tip-poison-flower-children-s-playground.html</ref>
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