What Are the Benefits of Mayapple Fruit? Exploring Culinary and Medicinal Uses
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According to botanists at Cornell Botanic Gardens, while the fully ripe fruit of the mayapple is edible, the rest of the plant, including unripe fruit, leaves, and roots, is highly poisonous. Understanding the specific benefits of mayapple fruit requires distinguishing it from the plant's potent, and toxic, medicinal compounds found in its rhizome.
