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Toxic Plants

Postby ergot » Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:31 am

World's Most Poisonous Plant
There are plants that are potentially dangerous. Never eat a plant without knowing what your eating or doing some research first.
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby ergot » Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:35 am

Poisonous Plants 1-2-1, Aconitum napellus, monkshood
Interesting historical info regarding this beautiful plant!
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby ergot » Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:48 am

Борщевик нападает
Cow parsnip is very poisonous!
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby surfsteve » Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:34 pm

I've pulled many 1000's of poison oak with my bare hands before I knew what they were and never had any symptoms from it. I must have some how developed an immunity to it. My grandma told us that you can develop immunity to poison ivy by eating a little bit of it when it first sprouts out of the snow and then a little more as it grows bigger. I suspect I may have developed my immunity to poison oak by pulling the baby plants in the spring, gradually being exposed to higher and higher amounts as the plants grew bigger.
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby wildrose » Sun Jul 10, 2016 7:46 am

10 Common Poison Oak Myths
surfsteve wrote:I've pulled many 1000's of poison oak with my bare hands before I knew what they were and never had any symptoms from it. I must have some how developed an immunity to it. My grandma told us that you can develop immunity to poison ivy by eating a little bit of it when it first sprouts out of the snow and then a little more as it grows bigger. I suspect I may have developed my immunity to poison oak by pulling the baby plants in the spring, gradually being exposed to higher and higher amounts as the plants grew bigger.

surfsteve: Maybe, maybe not...
Myth 9 – You can develop immunity from exposure. False. With some 90% of humans allergic to urushiol, it’s only a matter of time before most of us will develop a reaction, and it turns out the more reactions you experience from exposure to urushiol, the more likely you are to react to with further exposure. But the reverse is also true: avoiding exposure (and outbreaks) reduces your susceptibility to a reaction. In other words, the myth has it backward: your best immunity comes from simply avoiding contact to begin with.

LINK: https://wyeastblog.org/2012/05/28/10-common-poison-oak-myths/
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby ergot » Thu May 04, 2017 3:48 pm

Poisonous Plants In The Home
Deadly, but beautiful.
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby twister » Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:20 pm

14 Deadliest Plants
Datura, monkshood, love pea, etc. All sorts of deadly plants. BTW, according to this video oleander is poisonous to humans, but not to some rodents.
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby panamint_patty » Sat Nov 23, 2019 8:02 am

Top 10 Poisonous Plants In The Home
Interesting list. Some of these plants are common and others not so much.
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby recluse » Sat May 02, 2020 8:23 pm

Enter the Deadliest Garden in the World'
Many plants are toxic or poisonous and many of them are gathered together in this unusual garden.
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Re: Toxic Plants

Postby cloud » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:53 am

Sixteen Plants That Could Kill You
INCLUDING: apples, deadly nightshade, rosary pea, oleander, European yew, daffodils, doll's eye, hemlock, stinging tree, castor beans, angel's trumpet, monkshood, white snakeroot, larkspur, foxglove, and Melia azedarach.
Many gardeners may be surprised to discover that they are growing some of the world's deadliest plants in their own backyards.

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