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Poisonous plants
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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 |
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