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Lychee. Ingesting large amounts almost certainly caused the death of four horses. [25] Malva parviflora. Mallow. [10] Marsilea drummondii. Nardoo. Contains an enzyme which destroys vitamin B 1, leading to brain damage in sheep and horses.
Equisetum palustre is poisonous to mammals, most often reported as potentially fatal to horses, as it contains alkaloids palustrine and palustridiene, which destroy vitamin B 1. According to Wink, Equisetum palustre also contains thiaminase enzymes. It is also known to contain lesser amounts of nicotine.
water hemlock, cowbane, wild carrot, snakeweed, poison parsnip, false parsley, children's bane, death-of-man. Apiaceae. The root, when freshly pulled out of the ground, is extremely poisonous and contains cicutoxin, a central nervous system stimulant that induces seizures. [citation needed]
Equisetum arvense, the field horsetail or common horsetail, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the Equisetidae (horsetails) sub-class, native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It has separate sterile non-reproductive and fertile spore-bearing stems growing from a perennial underground rhizomatous stem system.
Berteroa incana. (L.) DC. Berteroa incana is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. Its common names include hoary alyssum, [1] false hoary madwort, hoary berteroa, [2] and hoary alison. [3][4] It is a biennial herb native to Eurasia and it has been introduced to western Europe and North America. [3][4] It is listed ...
Solanum pleei Dunal. Solanum carolinense, the Carolina horsenettle, [2] is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, native to the southeastern United States, though its range has expanded throughout much of temperate North America. [3]
Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock.Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, [1] and Swainsona in Australia.
Nothoscordum bivalve is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae known by the common names crowpoison and false garlic. It is native to the eastern United States from Texas to Florida up to Nebraska and Ohio, as well as Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina and central Chile. [2][3] Nothoscordum bivalve is a perennial herb ...