"Victoria Clare" wrote in message
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Kay Easton wrote in
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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.

I heard of someone who saved apple pips (because he liked the taste)
until he had a bagful. Then died of cyanide poisoning after he scoffed
the lot.
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Nick Wagg