ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Vienna man has pleaded guilty to possession of unregistered ricin on Wednesday. Ricin is a toxin that's naturally found in castor beans, according to the Centers for Disease ...
Ricinus communis, a perennial flowering plant native to East Africa and India, appears innocuous at first glance. The wide-leafed plant’s two-meter stalk bears a large seed, deceptively known as a ...
In 2015, a Massachusetts biomedical technology researcher bought a couple woodland plants and several hundred beans online, claiming in the years that followed the latter were purely for decoration.