In article . com,
"a.c." writes:
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| Over the years I've worked alongside people, adults, with varying
| degrees of susceptibility to plant poisons.
|
| Euphobias were relatively successful in causing skin irritations.

An amusing typo!

| Rue, on the other hand, affected anyone in contact with it and even got
| to me, which surprised me.

Interesting. I react little to it.

| On a different angle, fremontodendron is covered in tiny, almost
| glass-like-invisible shards. It's a lovely plant which flowers very
| well for such a long time that I wondered why it was not more popular.
| Then one day I found out when, presumably, I rubbed my eyes whilst
| de-heading some of its flowers and by the evening my eye was glued up.
| The following day it was even more glued up and I had to go to an
| optician. Not exactly a chemical burn, or the deadly-poisonous
| catogory, but unpleasant enough in my experience.

Now, that's worth knowing. Nasty.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.