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This is a list of plants containing poisonous parts that pose a serious risk of illness, injury, or death to humans.
Poisonous food plants
- Potato (Solanum tuberosum) All green parts contain the glycoalkaloid solanine - considered inedible when raw; cooked potatoes have had starches softened and rendered edible
- Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) Foliage and vines contain alkaloid poisons
- Rhubarb (Rheum rhaponticum) Leaves contain oxalic acid salts
- Cherry (Prunus cerasus), as well as other species such as peach, plum, almond and apricot (Prunus) Leaves and pits contain cyanogenic glycosides
- Pokeweed (Phytolacca sp.) Leaves, berries and roots contain phytolaccatoxin and phytolaccigenin - toxin in young leaves is reduced when boiled twice
Poisonous garden plants
- Privet (Ligustrum sp.) Possibly fatal to humans, berries contain ligustrin and syringin
- Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Fatal to humans, contain cardiac or steroid glycosides
- Lilies Most are poisonous, especially to cats
- Yew (Taxus baccata, the "English yew") All parts of the plant, except for the fleshy red bit of the fruit, contain poisons
- Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) All parts of the plant contain the toxic alkaloid atropine
- Oleander (Nerium oleander) All parts are toxic, containing nerioside, oleandroside, saponins, cardiac glycosides, but especially the leaves and woody stems
- Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) Oil is purgative; seed meal separate from oil is source of the deadly toxic protein, Ricin
- Aconite (wolfsbane, monkshood) (Aconitum napellus) The poison is concentrated in the unripe seed pods and roots
- Delphinium Contains the alkaloid Delsoline
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Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System - Plants poisonous to livestock, pets and humans in Canada. Also has links to other poisonous plant resources.
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Cornell University Poisonous Plants - Searchable database of plants toxic to humans and animals.
Guide to Poisonous and Toxic Plants - From the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
Guide to Poisonous Plants - Searchable database from the Colorado State College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Index of Poisionous Plants - Directory of toxic plants and herbs and their effects.
Poisonous Plant Database - A listing of papers of scientific information about the animal and human toxicology of vascular plants of the world. From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
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The Poisonous Plant Patch - Detailed information on several species of poisonous plants. Photographs, plant toxins, medicinal or toxic and an illustrated guide to poisonous plants in Nova Scotia. [Many of these are not regional specific - ed]
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