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Poison Plants !
water hemlock is infused with deadly cicutoxin, especially in its roots, and will rapidly generate potentially fatal symptoms in anyone unlucky enough to eat it. Painful convulsions, abdominal cramps, nausea, and death are common, and those who survive are often afflicted with amnesia or lasting tremors.
It is the most widely grown commercial non-food plant in the world. All parts of the plant, especially its leaves, contain the toxic alkaloids nicotine and anabasine, and can be fatal if eaten.
water hemlock
(cituta maculata)
Tobacco
(Nicotiana Tabacum)
Castor Bean
(Ricinus communis)
While the processed seeds are the source of castor oil, they naturally contain the poison ricin and are deadly in small amounts. It only takes one or two seeds to kill a child and up to eight to kill an adult.Ricin works by inhibiting the synthesis of proteins within cells and can cause severe vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, and even death.
The deadly nightshade has dull green leaves and shiny black berries about the size of cherries. Nightshade contains atropine and scopolamine in its stems, leaves, berries, and roots, and causes paralysis in the involuntary muscles of the body, including the heart. Even physical contact with the leaves may cause skin irritation.
Deadly Nightshade
(Atropa Belladonna)
Rosary Pea
(Abrus precatorius)
these piously-named seeds contain abrin, an extremely deadly ribosome-inhibiting protein. While the seeds are not poisonous if intact, seeds that are scratched, broken, or chewed can be lethal. It only takes 3 micrograms of abrin to kill an adult. Like ricin, abrin prevents protein synthesis within cells and can cause organ failure within four days.
All parts are poisonous, especially the berries, the consumption of which has a sedative effect on cardiac muscle tissue and can cause cardiac arrest.
White baneberry
(Actaea pachypoda)
Despite its pleasant appearance, the Angel’s trumpet is devastatingly toxic, particularly its leaves and seeds. With alkaloids such as scopolamine and hyoscyamine, ingestion of this plant has a horrifying list of outcomes including, diarrhoea, confusion, migraines, paralysis and even death.
Angel's trumpets
(Burgmansia)
All parts are poisonous, containing an alkaloid called aconitine, which disables nerves, lowers blood pressure, and can stop the heart. Even casual skin contact should be avoided.
devil's bane
(aconitum napellus)
Ingestion of its leaves or a dicoction of its leaves causes hypokalemia (kaliuresis and cardiac arrhythmias), metabolic acidosis, hypotension, and hypoxia.
Toxic Gooseberry
(Cleistanthus collinus )
Globeflower is a herbaceous perennial plant that can grow up to 1 meter tall. It produces large, spherical flowers that can be yellow, orange, or golden in color. These blooms are made up of numerous petals that are densely packed, giving the flower its distinctive globe-like appearance.Consuming it can cause vomiting, bloody diarrhea, being unable to breath and dizzyness.
Globeflover
(Trollius europaeus)
Autumm crocus
(Colchicum autumale)
All parts of the plant can cause illness when eaten. It is categorized as having major toxicity. The lily of the valley contains several compounds that can affect the heart. It may be used in very small quantities in medication, but ingesting the plant can lead to severe illness, cardiac distress, and death.
Lily of the valley
(convallaria majalis)
It has small berries in profusion which start out green and turn red then dark purple, with two seeds per berry.
In case there is any suspicion of poisoning manifested by vomiting, strong abdominal pains and bloody stools, the sufferer should quickly be taken to hospital. If charcoal tablets are at hand they may be given.
Mezereum
(Daphne mezereum)
White snakeroot
(Ageratina altissima)
Every part of an autumn crocus plant is highly toxic. Eating the leaves, tubers, flowers or seeds can be fatal. While poisoning from contact alone is unlikely, we suggest wearing gloves when handling the plant and keeping it well away from your mouth.
It is an evergreen tree with needlelike leaves and red arils, or fleshy seed-coverings that are commonly found growing in church graveyards across Great Britian. Every part of the tree is toxic due to taxine alkaloids,
Which can cause convulsions, paralysis, and, in extreme cases, heart failure.
Yew
(Taxus baccata)
White snakeroot is a North American I. herb with flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and contains a toxic alcohol known as trematol. Symptoms of "milk poisoning" include loss of appetite, nausea, weakness, abdominal discomfort, reddened tongue, abnormal acidity of the blood, and death.
It has small berries in profusion which start out green and turn red then dark purple, with two seeds per berry.
In case there is any suspicion of poisoning manifested by vomiting, strong abdominal pains and bloody stools, the sufferer should quickly be taken to hospital. If charcoal tablets are at hand they may be given.
Alder buckthorn
(Frangula alnus)