Eating Plants from Your Yard? Do You Know Which Ones are Poisonous?
Missouri Environment & Garden Newsletter today provides an up to date list of plants that can harm those who eat enough of them. I must say again that I don't know who is going around eating apricot pits, azaleas and yew, but it seems to be a recurring theme in garden literature from many sources. In honor of National Poison Prevention Week please click over to University of Missouri Newsletter and read their warning about the following plants. The Missouri Poison Center provided this list: Apricot pits and leaves Prunus armeniaca Arrowhead vine Syngonium podophyllum Avocado peel and pit Persea americana Autumn crocus Colchicum autumnale Azalea Rhododendron species Bird of Paradise Poinciana gilliesii Bittersweet Solanum dulcamera Black nightshade Solanum nigrum Caladium Caladium bicolor Calla lily Zantedeschia acthoipica Castor beans Ricinus communis Crabapple seeds Malus species Daphne Daphne mezereum Deadly nig...