List of poisonous plants
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This is a list of plants containing poisonous parts that pose a serious risk of illness, injury, or death to humans.
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Poisonous food plants
- potato (all parts contain the glycoalkaloid solanine) (though the edible part is considered very safe.)
- tomato (foliage and vines contain alkaloid poisons)
- rhubarb (leaves contain oxalic acid acid salts)
Poisonous garden plants
- privet (possibly fatal to humans, berries contain ligustrin and syringin)
- foxglove (fatal to human, contain cardiac or steroid glycosides)
- oleander (fatal to human and animals, all parts poisonous, contain nerioside, oleandroside, saponins, cardiac glycosides)
- Most lilies are poisonous, especially to cats.
Poisonous ornamental plants
Notes
- poinsettias are notable for not being poisonous despite persistent beliefs to the contrary. [1]
