Edible root or arrow poison? 🫚Uses of Jatropha, nettlespurge, leatherstem, sangre de drago, and relatives. 🫚 I do not recommend eating this poisonous plant. 🫚 Note that the Indigenous peoples mentioned are still living cultures and when I use past tense it is to describe practices in a historical context. 🫚 REFERENCES - Felger, Richard Stephen, and Mary Beck Moser. 1985. People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. - Ohlendorf, S