In article . 10,
Victoria Clare writes
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?

I guess they'd be very bad news for a diverticulitis sufferer

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

I did a quick google on poisonous plants, and some of the symptoms
described were very compelling ... but they were on vets' sites. I
suppose it makes sense that plants would have evolved with good defences
against pure herbivores.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm