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Mountain laurel is poisonous to several animals, including horses, [24] goats, cattle, deer, [25] monkeys, and humans, [26] due to grayanotoxin [27] and arbutin. [28] The green parts of the plant, flowers , twigs, and pollen are all toxic, [ 26 ] including food products made from them, such as toxic honey that may produce neurotoxic and ...
A specimen of Dermatophyllum secundiflorum in its fruiting stage.. Dermatophyllum secundiflorum is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae [2] that is native to the Southwestern United States (Texas, New Mexico) and Mexico (Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo, Puebla, and Querétaro). [3]
The fruit is a hard, woody seedpod 2–15 cm (0.79–5.91 in) long, containing one to six oval, bright red seeds 1–1.5 cm (0.39–0.59 in) long and 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter. All parts of the mescalbeans are very poisonous, containing the alkaloid cytisine (not mescaline, as suggested by the name).
Other names for Kalmia, particularly Kalmia angustifolia, are sheep-laurel, lamb-kill, calf-kill, kill-kid, and sheep-poison, [3] which may be written with or without the hyphen. (See species list below.) "Kid" here refers to a young goat , not a human child, but the foliage and twigs are toxic to humans as well.
The Evergreen State is full of beautiful, delicious wild plants. It’s also full of toxic lookalikes.
These seeds are five-parted, round, and woody. [9] Kalmia polifolia can grow to be two feet tall. Its leaves are arranged oppositely upon its branch and grow to be an inch to an inch and a half in length and tend to be waxy with an entire and revolute margin. [9]
In Oregon, this tree is known as Oregon myrtle, while in California it is called California bay laurel, which may be shortened to California bay [5] or California laurel. It has also been called pepperwood , spicebush , cinnamon bush , peppernut tree , headache tree , [ 6 ] mountain laurel , [ 7 ] and balm of heaven .
Kalmia microphylla, known as alpine laurel, [2] [3] bog laurel, [4] [5] swamp-laurel, [6] western bog-laurel [7] or western laurel, [3] is a species of Kalmia of the family Ericaceae. It is native to North America and can be found throughout the western US and western and central Canada below the subarctic.