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Teens Be Careful: These Plants Could Kill You!

Ever wondered how poisons are made? Being young and curious, I bet your curious minds often ponder over these things. But really…has it ever occurred to you that poisons are often made from toxic plant extracts? But then how toxic can these plants be? Now that’s something to consider! And while you are busy considering that, we are going to look at some of the world’s most toxic and deadliest plants. Mind you, these plants are not scary at all. If anything, beautiful plants, the kinds I’m certain you’d love to behold. A few of them even have very lovely scents and as such may easily attract you to touch them. Please don’t; they could deal with you! Read below-

Oleander

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This is a beautiful plant grown/used mostly for ornamental purposes, even though every part of the oleander plant is actually deadly. It contains lethal cardiac glycosides– oleandrin and neriine. If eaten for whatever reason, the plan can cause vomiting, diarrhea, erratic pulse, seizures, coma, and eventual death. Even a mere contact with the leaves and sap can cause skin irritation. As a matter of fact, some people have reportedly fallen ill after eating honey made by bees that visited the flowers! Fortunately, the oleander plant is very bitter and as such much people do not go about eating it. This makes fatalities very rare. Thank goodness!

Angel’s Trumpet

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Angel’s trumpets are flowering plants, native to the tropical regions of South America, but found around the world. The name Angel’s trumpet comes from the pendulous trumpet shaped flowers, covered in fine hairs that hang from the tree. Flowers come in a variety of sizes and colours. All parts of the plant contain toxins such as tropane alkaloids scopolamine and atropine. The plant is sometimes turned into a tea and ingested as a hallucinogenic, recreational drug. As levels of toxicity varies prom plant to plant, and part to part, it is almost impossible to know how much toxins you have ingested. As a result of this, many users have overdosed and died from it.

Water Hemlock

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This plant is often referred to as the most violently toxic plant there is! It is a large wildflower in the carrot family and can easily be confused for edible celery; especially so by someone who is hungry. Unfortunately, it is not as healthy as it is beautiful because the plant is infused with deadly cicutoxin, especially in its roots. Consumption of the water hemlock will lead to rapid and fatal symptoms, including painful convulsions, abdominal cramps, nausea, and death are common, and those who survive are often afflicted with amnesia or lasting tremors. Fear this!

Strychnine Tree

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The Strychnine tree, better known as poison nut or Quaker Button, is a medium sized tree, native to India and South East Asia. The small seeds inside the trees’ green to orange fruit, is highly toxic, being filled with poisonous alkaloids’ Strychnine and Brucine. 30 mg of these toxins are enough to be fatal to an adult, and will lead to a painful death from violent convulsions due to simultaneous stimulation of sensory ganglia in the spine

Other equally dangerous plants include the following:

  • White Snakeroot
  • Rosary Pea
  • Belladonna
  • Castor Bean
  • Rosary Pea
  • Castor plants
  • Doll’s eyes
  • Wolfsbane

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