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Old 13-10-2010, 11:05 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Enabling a garden bonfire
On 13/10/2010 11:02, wrote:
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Don't breathe the smoke from the laurel, it's poisonous.

Negligibly more than any other smoke. Be more careful of sumachs,
in case they have the same characteristics as Toxicodendron to
a much lesser degree.

I think you probably need to be a bit wary of the smoke when burning yew
for much the same reason. A few UK plants do contain potent chemical
weapons or their precursors - luckily in the UK there is nothing quite
in the poison ivy league. Some of the euphorbias might be quite nasty
when burned if the sap is vapourised in the smoke.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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