BUSHMAN POISON BULB

also known locally as "Gifbol"
We planted this bulb because the papery scales, applied as a plaster, healed the leg ulcers of an elderly friend when all the medication prescribed by doctors and specialists failed.
When I consulted a book that I have on useful plants in Southern Africa, I discovered much to my horror that the bulb has a reputation as a powerful hallucinogen and the thick milky juice was used as arrow poison by the Bushmen in days gone by.