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The plant is poisonous, containing cardiostimulant compounds such as adonidin and aconitic acid. [42] Aesculus hippocastanum: horse-chestnut, buckeye, conker tree Sapindaceae: All parts of the raw plant are poisonous due to saponins and glycosides such as aesculin, causing nausea, muscle twitches, and sometimes paralysis. [43] Agave spp.
garden valerian, garden heliotrope, all-heal Valeriana officinalis "drowsiness, GI upset, headache, palpitations, insomnia", [3] oversedation, overstimulation [16] Vasambu sweet flag Acorus calamus: Vomiting and nausea [22] Yohimbe: yohimbine Pausinystalia johimbe: rapid heart rate, hypertension, hypotension, heart problems, death [4]
Noxious weeds can be deadly for humans, animals and other plants in your garden. Here’s how to identify a plants before you get hurt.
Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (). [1] They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple [2] (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia).
The plant poses danger due to its photo-sensitising furancourmarins. The chemical prevents the body from protecting itself from UV light. Essentially, the plant makes bodies susceptible to intense ...
Adenium obesum, more commonly known as a desert rose, is a poisonous species of flowering plant belonging to the tribe Nerieae of the subfamily Apocynoideae of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. [3] It is native to the Sahel regions south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan ), tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa ...
The plant, recorded as Herba Apollinaris, was used to yield oracles by the priestesses of Apollo. [2] Recently evidence for its use in the earlier British Neolithic has been debated. [ 13 ] John Gerard 's Herball states: "The leaves, the seeds and the juice, when taken internally cause an unquiet sleep, like unto the sleep of drunkenness, which ...
Parthenium hysterophorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the American tropics. [1] Common names include Santa-Maria, [2] Santa Maria feverfew, [3] whitetop weed, [4] and famine weed. [5] In India, it is locally known as carrot grass, congress grass [6] or gajar ghas or dhanura. [7]