On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 4:09:54 PM UTC-7, Amos Nomore wrote:
On 2016-08-05 17:17:14 +0000, Al Tprk said:

Arum Maculatum leaves seem to be different on most photos, but some
photos show similar leaves.

I have been thinking that the fruits may be poisonous and never touched
it for years. However, my roommate ate some and he survived! So I will
try some.

Better not to. There is a wide range of sensitivity to oxalates in the
human population. You don't want your throat to swell shut and
suffocate, do you?

Amos, I think I did not delineate my answers properly. Or did not have enough coffee and got the plants mixed up. Or both

I meant to say that my roommate ate the fruits of the cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) and survived.

Wikipedia article in English on it says:

"fruit and seed may cause severe discomfort to humans if ingested".

Yet my roommate, who speaks and reads Chinese fluently, has read the Chinese version of the Wikipedia article, and he says that it does not say that the fruit is poisonous.

And yet another article I read in a third language says that the fruits are edible!

Go figure...