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  Poisonous Flowers & Plants
     Commonly Found In or Around Homes   
  
  
  The plants and flowers listed represent only a partial list of the most common    varieties found in the home and/or garden - contributed by Alpha Affiliates

• Autumn crocus - Bulbs cause vomiting & nervous excitement.
  
  
• Azaleas - All parts of plant are fatal. Products nausea, vomiting, depression,                 difficult breathing, prostration and coma.
  
  
• Bleeding Hart - Foliage may be poisonous in large amounts. Have proven
                             fatal tocattle.
  
  
• Buttercups - All parts have irritant juices-which may severely affect some.
  
  
• Castor bean - Seeds are fatal. One or two castor bean seeds are near lethal dose for                         adults.
  
  
• Daffodil - Bulbs cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea May be fatal.
  
  
• Dutchman's Breeches - Foliage and roots may be poisonous in large amounts.
                                          Have proven fatal to cattle
  
  
• Elderberry - All parts except berry. Children have been poisoned by using pieces of                       the pithy stems for blowguns. Nausea and digestive upset.
  
  
• Foxglove - Leaves are one of the sources of the drug digitalis. In large amounts causes                    irregular heartbeats and pulse, digestive upset, and mental confusion.
                     May be fatal.
  
  
• Golden chain - Bean-like capsule causes severe poisoning. Excitement, staggering,                          convulsions and coma. May be fatal.
  
  
• Hyacinth - bulbs cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. May be fatal.
  
  
• Iris - Underground stems cause severe digestive upset, but not usually serious.
  
  
• Jack-in-the-pulpit - All parts, especially roots contain small needlelike crystals of                               calcium oxalate that cause intense irritation & burning of the mouth.
  
  
• Larkspur - Young plants and seeds cause digestive upset, nervous excitement,                    depression. May be fatal.
  
  
• Lilly of the valley - Leaves and flowers cause irregular heartbeat and pulse, usually                                 accompanied by digestive upset and mental confusion.
  
  
• Mistletoe - Berries are fatal Both children and adults have died from eating the                     berries.
  
  
• Narcissus - Bulbs cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. May be fatal.
  
  
• Oleander - Leaves and branches are extremely poisonous. Affects the heart, produces                    severe digestive upset and has caused deaths.
  
• Poinsettia - Leaves are fatal. One leaf can kill a child.
  
  
• Rhubarb - Leaf blade is fatal. Large amounts of raw or cooked leaves can cause                 convulsions, coma, followed rapidly by death.
  
  
• Yew - Berries and foliage are fatal. Foliage more toxic than berries, Death is usually           sudden without warning symptoms.
  
  Distributed as a service by Alpha Affiliates, Inc., Mendham, NJ 07945,
  973/539-2770, E-mail AlphaAffiliates@WEBTV.net