In Austria, a couple dies of poisoning after confusing wild garlic with a toxic plant. The elderly couple confused wild garlic, the harvesting season of which had begun, with colchicum.
The latter contains colchicine, a deadly substance which acts on the inside of cells and which can kill within a few days. Between 2020 and 2022, in France, 28 cases of confusion between Colchicum and wild garlic (or more rarely wild leek) were reported to the health authorities.