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Old 14-04-2004, 11:03 AM
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Default Poisonous plants

Kay Easton wrote in
:

In article , Edwin Spector
writes
Just how poisonous is an apple tree?


ISTR the pips contain minute amounts of cyanide ;-)
Not enough to do any harm unless you were to eat them in *vast*
amounts, but they are in the same family as bitter almonds and cherry
laurel.


I believe that I have read of someone who got appendicitis through eating
apple cores and the pips becoming lodged in the appendix.

....any good?

Cherry twigs apparently cause liver and kidney problems in rabbits...

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