Deadly poison or tasty celery?

I’ve just downloaded the Google app to my phone and am trying the Google Lens feature. It allows you to take a photograph in the app and then search for images of a similar object.

Naturally it works with the natural world.

Walking along the river I see a bright green plant growing in profusion.

I give it a quick check.

It comes back with an American species. It can’t be. Surely Google knows where I am? That’s got to be part of the way they make their billions.

I try again. Water Celery, it says. No, I think that doesn’t sound right either.

I take another shot and give it another go.

Hemlock Water Dropwort, Oenanthe crocata, it says. Isn’t Hemlock poisonous, I think?

Hemlock Water Dropwort is the most deadly plant in the UK and also very common along waterways. It’s definitely not Water Celery.

It smells lovely, though.