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- partrow, on 03/30/2008, -0/+12Virtually anything around the house will kill you if used incorrectly, including water.
- cygnus2112, on 03/30/2008, -0/+11Because they're the most delicious part of an apple?
- Nougat, on 03/30/2008, -0/+9"Next, there’s the amaryllis– affectionately called the naked lady, for reasons I’ll never understand–"
It's because it looks like a vagina. - stavrogin2, on 03/30/2008, -0/+9I guess I'll have to stop eating daffodils.
- Bukowsky, on 03/30/2008, -0/+9I'm surprised Sago Palms didn't make the list... I guess those don't kill humans, but they can definitely kill your pets... I had a dog once, that died from eating the seeds dropped from a Sago Palm.
- AngelaQ, on 03/30/2008, -1/+9Only one of these plants is a "household plant". There are plenty of household plants that are seriously toxic that they could and should have written about. There are also lots of landscaping plants that are far more deadly than appleseeds.
- phildixon, on 03/30/2008, -0/+8Obviously, this list is not complete without the dreaded Ninja Ficus.
- epilonious, on 03/30/2008, -0/+8Digitalis (foxglove)? Castor Plant? Nightshade? The article left out some of the really big ones...
I mean, these plants and their histories are interesting, but I'm sure more plants are inedible than edible. - Elliuotatar, on 03/30/2008, -0/+7It's amazing I survived as a kid not knowing everything around me was poisonous. I think I chewed on a rose petal once cause it smelled like tea, and my buddy used to pick certain leaves off the forest floor which we both tried which may have been mint, because they tasted like it. And my sister when she was like five or six ate these ugly purple berries growing on these ugly vines in the yard of this old house my parents bought. I'm not sure what they were, but they turned out not to be poisonous either.
I also noticed recently the local supermarket selling edible flowers in the herb section. I hope nobody sees that and assumes they can save some money by picking their own to brew tea with. - epilonious, on 03/30/2008, -0/+7To be fair... most of the things that are poisonous also
A. Taste like spicy, bitter, and/or rotten death
B. Tend to make you barf before you can really absorb the hideous horrible toxic badness
C. Involve you eating 20 lbs of it to get a toxic dose.
I mean, there are plenty of plants that will give you or your pet a horrible case of the dynamite *****... but very few are "oops, I ate a leaf and now I am dead 2 hours later" - nachochease, on 03/30/2008, -1/+7What about everyone's favorite Christmas plant - Poinsettias? If eaten they can cause diarrhea and vomiting. Not the way you want to spend the holidays.
- epilonious, on 03/30/2008, -0/+6No one ever hears it coming.
- azurechaos, on 03/30/2008, -0/+5yeah sorry i'm going to have to disagree with you on that one.
maybe the stuff you eat, but i actually enjoy eating healthy stuff. - whitema, on 03/30/2008, -1/+6"My family has been in landscaping for five generations now, and I ’ve been doing it for ten"
Wow, for 200 years old, you think he'd know more than that..... - MtheoryX, on 03/30/2008, -0/+5"My family has been in landscaping for five generations now, and I ’ve been doing it for ten. I’m 22. You do the math."
For one, I hate when people say "you do the math."
For two, it's severely annoying when the math turns out to be completely illogical. - inactive, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Ha, I learned that apple seeds are poisonous from G.I. Joe. There was an episode involving a giant bacteria, and they killed it by luring it into an apple orchard. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle!
- mlvassallo, on 03/30/2008, -1/+5Thanks for depressing me today.
- doctorfungi, on 03/30/2008, -2/+6If the government made this list you can bet your ass that "Marijuana" would be on there.
- inactive, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4Just what the earth needs. More hate against plantlife.
- jtbandes, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3No one hears it growing, either.
- dietfacts, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4I had a German Shepherd that would pick up the fruit/seed balls that fell from our huge walnut tree. When they are fresh they resemble tennis balls in both size and color -- but when they turn black, the flesh contains some type of powerful toxin. Poor Nickie chewed on some of them and it rotted her intestines. :((...
- epilonious, on 03/30/2008, -0/+3"I thought I would clean the toaster, but I didn't want to expend the effort to unplug it first..."
- WindReaver, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Potatoes will produce a toxin if exposed to the air while growing.
From Wikipedia:
Potatoes contain glycoalkaloids, toxic compounds, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine. Cooking at high temperatures (over 170 °C or 340 °F) partly destroys these. The concentration of glycoalkaloid in wild potatoes suffices to produce toxic effects in humans. Glycoalkaloids occur in the greatest concentrations just underneath the skin of the tuber, and they increase with age and exposure to light. Glycoalkaloids may cause headaches, diarrhea, cramps and in severe cases coma and death; however, poisoning from potatoes occurs very rarely. Light exposure also causes greening, thus giving a visual clue as to areas of the tuber that may have become more toxic; however, this does not provide a definitive guide, as greening and glycoalkaloid accumulation can occur independently of each other. Some varieties of potato contain greater glycoalkaloid concentrations than others; breeders developing new varieties test for this, and sometimes have to discard an otherwise promising cultivar. - zippy757, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2..in the case of Daffodils, you would need to eat the bulb ...not the flower, to be poisoned...it appears sometimes people mistake the bulb for an onion
- fyngyrz, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Um.... Horse Chestnut?
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+2First time I have seen such heated discussion about plants on Digg (apart from marijuana). I am impressed.
- epilonious, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2depens on whether or not you hate your in-laws. Then they can get the special Christmas salad.
- epilonious, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2'tis better to keep one's mouth closed and let people think you are a fool....
- skunkman62, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2apple trees are not household plants and the author states that apple seeds "aren't deadly to humans." so why is the headlines "five household plants that can kill you"?
- godplaysdnd, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3Dihydrogen monoxide poisoning! its serious!
- bootle, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2You've been doing it for ten generations. And you're only 22, wow! After doing the math, I conclude that you are the highlander. There can be only one!
- ordig, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1No check it out
this is the one you are talking about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycas_revoluta
The actual sago is a staple food of New Guinea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sago - harpreetgiani, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
... or has a toxin which can kill you if you eat a tonne of it! - ordig, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1they're also edible though aren't they? If you prepare them right?
- Lunarbunny, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1How about Golden Chain (Laburnum)? Entire tree contains cystine (similar to nicotine), and though i'm sure it's hyperbole, I heard a single seed pod could kill a moose.
- krystofr, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2Feed me, Seymour, feed me!
- krazykit, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1I don't believe so. Real palm trees have edible parts; a sago palm is not a palm at all. It is a cycad; the poisons are called cycasins. Don't try to eat sago palm.
- AuldNic, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1I'm NEVER going to be able to do that perfect murder with this list :(
- partrow, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1It really isn't amazing, it is just a fact that most "poisonous" plants and "toxic" items that are available are not toxic enough to kill or permanently harm us with the small amounts a person might take in. We also have very good poison control centers and medical teams which are well trained in the many compounds that we might be exposed to. Keep in mind that this curiosity is the method by which the early people in an area would use to determine uses and toxicity of the many natural flora and fauna they found around them.
- DonTazeMeBro, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Aflatoxin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin - blakespoorbrain, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2Beware of the Devil's Snare.
/Harry Potter - INDOAZZ, on 03/30/2008, -4/+5Little Shop of Horrors.
- jtbandes, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Because we're not meant to be mostly eating flowers.
- andyd273, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I remember seeing that one back when I was 8 or so!
And here people haven't believed me when I tell them not to eat the seeds...
Even though none of them has died, yet, this'll show em! - Elliuotatar, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1This brings up an interesting question though...
Why do flowers smell so good to us if most of them are poisonous? Shouldn't evolution have made flowers smell revolting to us? And why did flowers evolve to smell they way they do at all? I mean, do bees find flowers by smell? I thought they found them by the way they look in the ultraviolet spectrum, where the center is bright white and the rest appears black.
The only thing I can think of is maybe flowers smell good so animals rub themselves on them, and therefore rub the pollen off. - HanSolo69, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1This guy has been landscaping for 10 generations???? WHHAAAA??????!?!!!?!???
- KaiPie, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0Is that plants that can kill you, or plants that can totally kill you? Wow man like totally dude. He's not just dead, he's like totally dead.
- Atash, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0Most of these plants aren't what I would call "household" (maybe he just meant "common"), several of them are misidentified, the Rhododendron pictured is a Vireya (Rhododenron zoellerii) native to New Guinea that the Delaware Indians never had anything to do with, and the deadliness of most of those plants is wildly exaggerated. Narcissus for example are hallucinogenic--yes, they could kill in high enough doses but that would take plenty of them, and they are one of the most poisonous of the list.
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/?section=species&id ...
"Narcissus and daffodils (as well as tulips) rarely cause fatalities, but they do contain toxic alkaloids that may cause dizziness, abdominal pain and upset, and occasionally, convulsions if eaten."
Apple seeds have very little cyanide in them and even a mouse would not keel over dead from eating a belly full of them. - Nhmarine, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0I was under the impression that everything in life is dangerous, whether from a toxin or by the volocity caused by a douchebag throwing it at your head XD. But there is one thing that is extremely detrimental to your life....
I hope you are prepared for this, because it will be shocking!
The most dangerous thing, the most deleterious thing you could encounter is... (drumroll)
Old Age!
hehe - Lkxd88, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1I bet if you throw one of them walnuts with the spines on them hard enough you could probably consider those deadly aswell
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