Plant-Lore

Collecting the folklore and uses of plants

Red-hot poker

1. My mother always told me … it was very unlucky to grow red-hot poker plants in the garden [Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, February 1998].

Image: cultivated, The Temple, City of London; July 2014.

This is the only record of this belief in Plant-lore Archive; other records and any comments would be appreciated.