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The plant is poisonous, containing cardiostimulant compounds such as adonidin and aconitic acid. [38] Aesculus hippocastanum: horse-chestnut, buckeye, conker tree Sapindaceae: All parts of the raw plant are poisonous due to saponins and glycosides such as aesculin, causing nausea, muscle twitches, and sometimes paralysis. [39] Agave spp.
In fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name. Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire. [1]
Ingesting large amounts almost certainly caused the death of four horses. [ 25] Malva parviflora. Mallow. [ 10] Marsilea drummondii. Nardoo. Contains an enzyme which destroys vitamin B 1, leading to brain damage in sheep and horses.
Aconitum. Aconitum subgenus Lycoctonum ( DC.) Peterm. Aconitum ( / ˌækəˈnaɪtəm / ), [ 2] also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, devil's helmet, or blue rocket, [ 3] is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
Strychnos toxifera, the Strychnos species which is the principal source of 'calabash curare' and its main active constituent, the alkaloid toxiferine. Curare ( / kʊˈrɑːri / or / kjʊˈrɑːri /; kuu-RAH-ree or kyuu-RAH-ree) is a common name for various alkaloid arrow poisons originating from plant extracts.
Digitalis purpurea is an herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 10–35 cm (3.9–13.8 in) long and 5–12 cm (2–5 in) broad, and are covered with gray-white pubescent and glandular hairs, imparting a woolly texture. The foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year.
Aethusa cynapium ( fool's parsley, fool's cicely, or poison parsley) is an annual (rarely biennial) herb in the flowering plant family Apiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia, and northwest Africa. It is the only member of the genus Aethusa. It is related to hemlock and water-dropwort, and like them it is poisonous, [1] though less so than ...
Amaryllis belladonna, [2] the Jersey lily, [3] belladonna-lily, naked-lady-lily, [4] or March lily, [5] is a plant species native to Cape Province in South Africa but widely cultivated as an ornamental. It is reportedly naturalized in many places: Corsica, Portugal, the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Scilly Isles of Great Britain, the ...