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Toxic Plants

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:31 am
by ergot
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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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:35 am
by ergot
Poisonous Plants 1-2-1, Aconitum napellus, monkshood
Interesting historical info regarding this beautiful plant!

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:48 am
by ergot
Борщевик нападает
Cow parsnip is very poisonous!

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:34 pm
by surfsteve
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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 7:46 am
by wildrose
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/

Re: Toxic Plants

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2017 3:48 pm
by ergot
Poisonous Plants In The Home
Deadly, but beautiful.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:20 pm
by twister
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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PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 8:02 am
by panamint_patty
Top 10 Poisonous Plants In The Home
Interesting list. Some of these plants are common and others not so much.

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PostPosted: Sat May 02, 2020 8:23 pm
by recluse
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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PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:53 am
by cloud
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.

LINK:
https://www.treehugger.com/plants-that-could-kill-you-4869362