Top 10 most poisonous plants. The most dangerous plants in central Russia. Yew berry or European

It is believed that poisonous plants grow only in the hot tropics, but this is not the case. It is worth going to the dacha or the nearest forest, and we can meet with flora, which is a serious and even mortal danger to humans.

Belladonna (lat.Atrópa belladónna)

Can a plant with such a poetic name be dangerous to humans? And how! "The beautiful lady" - this is how belladonna is translated from Italian - is very insidious. Its fruit is a shiny black, sometimes yellow berry with many seeds, infused with a sweet-tasting deep purple nectar, but it is not worth tasting.

Italian women traditionally buried the juice of this plant in their eyes: the pupils, due to the atropine content in belladonna, expanded, acquiring an unnatural, but attractive shine.

And the berries were used as a dye to create a blush on the cheeks. In Russia, belladonna was also called "belladonna", but sometimes it was also called "rabies": the same atropine, when ingested inside the plant, could cause strong excitement, up to rabies. But this is not the main symptom. 20 minutes after tasting the leaves or the fruit of belladonna, the mouth becomes dry and burning, swallowing and breathing becomes difficult, heart rate increases, then vomiting, upset stool and urination appear. A person can also be poisoned by honey, which contains belladonna pollen, moreover, toxic effects are manifested even from touching this plant. The livestock eating it suffers from belladonna, but the rabbits feast on it absolutely without any consequences.

Spotted hemlock (lat.Conium maculatum)

He doesn't just have a headache - in the justice system Ancient Greece Hemlock was used as an official poison, and it was only from the time of Hippocrates that it became a medicine.

All parts of the plant are equally poisonous, and therefore it is recommended to collect it with extreme caution.

Washing hands with soap is the best prevention against its toxic properties. Finished raw materials must always be stored separately from others. medicinal herbs... In Russia, this weed grows everywhere - from forest edges to vegetable gardens. Children sometimes make whistles from its hollow stem, which is extremely dangerous. However, the unpleasant “mousey” smell of hemlock often scares them away from this activity.

Poisonous milestone (lat.Cicuta virosa)

The name of this plant speaks for itself. In Russia, it is found everywhere, especially near water bodies. The main danger is tubers that have a deceptively pleasant smell of either carrots or celery. The main substance of the milestone is cicutoxin, which in small doses has a sedative effect and also reduces arterial pressure- it is not for nothing that it is used in pharmacology.

In folk medicine, a milestone tincture is made, which has a number of useful properties: helps with migraine, gout, rheumatism, tachycardia.

However, an overdose of a drug based on a milestone is fraught with serious consequences - appears very quickly headache, chills, nausea, vomiting, pain in the abdomen, cramps, profuse saliva, and if the stomach is not rinsed in time, it can be fatal. Due to their toxicity, landmarks are also used as an insecticide in the fight against garden pests - caterpillars and insects. And not only. According to some reports, Socrates was poisoned with a poison made from this plant.

Belena (Latin Hyoscýamus)

We often had to hear the common expression: "Are you overeating henbane?" So they say about a person who behaves inappropriately. Even Avicena wrote that "henbane is a poison that causes insanity, deprives memory and causes suffocation and demoniacal possession."

Helen is a very unpretentious plant - it has chosen wastelands, courtyards, vegetable gardens and roadsides, there is a lot of it where a person lives.

The plant has a very bad smell, at least, animals are sensitive to it and bypass the henbane side. In the Middle Ages, there was such a military trick. The retreating army left its wine supply to the enemy, after adding henbane to it. The enemy, of course, could not help but take advantage of such a gift and drank the poisoned wine. Later, the soldiers returned to their possessions and massacred the intoxicated enemies. In henbane everything is toxic - the root, stem, flowers, but especially the seeds. First of all, children who mistake these seeds for edible can be at risk.

Daphne (lat.Dáphne)

In childhood, many of us were warned against eating such attractive-looking wolf berries, and for good reason - 5 berries can become a lethal dose for a child, and 12 will calmly send an adult to the next world. But even if you do not overdo it with the dose, then the poison of the wolfberry can cause redness of the skin and blisters, as well as diseases of the kidneys and stomach.

In spring, the "wolf" bush is decorated with delicate flowers - pink, cream and lilac, but their beauty is deceiving - flower pollen can cause dizziness and headache. Curious that in Nepal, wolfberry is used to make paper top grade, and we use it for landscaping areas. The wolfberry is listed in the Red Book of Russia: a plant that poses a danger to people is itself on the verge of extinction.

Wrestler or aconite (Latin Acónítum)

The name "aconite" is associated with the feat of Hercules, in which he freed the three-headed Cerberus from the underworld. When the hero brought out hell dog into the light of day, then the beast flooded the grass with poisonous saliva - and tall, slender plants grew there. It happened near the city of Akoni. In Russia, there are more than 60 types of aconite, and it is actively used in folk medicine.

Everything is used for the preparation of preparations, except for the root - it is so poisonous!

Children are very often attracted beautiful flowers aconite they taste - burning pain and numbness oral cavity may appear within a few minutes. Facts speak about the fighter's poisonous properties: the Germanic peoples rubbed the arrowheads with them to hunt wolves, and the skullcap soaked in his juice killed Tamerlane. For any person, a 2-3 gram dose of aconite will be fatal.

Ash tree (lat.Dictamnus)

During its flowering period, the ash tree is unusually beautiful. Large white, pink, lilac flowers with purple veins will not leave anyone indifferent. And when the fruits appear - five-celled capsules with shiny black seeds - a rather pungent aroma spreads around the ash tree, similar to the smell of orange peel. It smells like essential oils.

They say that if you bring a lighted match to a plant on a calm sunny day, a red-purple flame will flare up around it, but the plant itself will remain untouched by the fire.

So he was nicknamed by the people "the burning bush". Despite the beauty of the ash tree, you should never touch or even smell flowers and seed boxes! At first, a person will not feel anything, but after a day, a burn occurs at the place of touch, which can be replaced by long non-healing ulcers - a trace of them will remain forever. And the contact of an ash tree with a large area of ​​the body is fraught with a risk to life. In our opinion, this is the most dangerous plant in Russia.

Talking about the most poisonous plants in the world, it is not enough to warn: "Do not go, children, to walk to Africa." Under the sky of the tropics, of course, there are killer plants, but not only there. In Russia, for example, such "grass" can be in a summer cottage or in a garden, and they will be lovingly looked after, because insidious cultures are usually amazingly beautiful. So that the danger lurking in fruits, leaves and stems does not become the cause of a nightmare, you need to know everything about such plants, otherwise how to protect yourself and your loved ones from trouble?

Areas with tropical and subtropical climates are ideal places for castor oil plants. In its natural environment, this shrub is more like a tree, it can reach a height of 10 m, but in temperate climates it does not grow more than 2-3 m. It has long been used for landscaping various public places in Egypt, Argentina, China, Brazil, and in last years Castor oil plant is also loved by Russian landscape designers.

Threats to health and life are posed by the substances ricin and ricinin contained in all parts of the plant. The lethal dose is 0.2 g for an adult, which means that ten castor bean seeds are a lethal dose. Once in the body, the poison, which is 5-6 times more dangerous than potassium cyanide, causes vomiting, colic and stomach bleeding. Death can occur 5-7 days after poisoning.

Castor oil is made from castor bean - a traditional laxative

The homeland of this representative of the legume family is India. There, abrus can still be found in its natural environment. In other tropical climates, the plant is cultivated mainly for its sweet root. Inside the pods are poisonous seeds - 4-6 pieces each. If even one enters the human body, death can occur within a few days. Signs of poisoning are vomiting, convulsions, liver failure occurs a little later.

Even if the poison did not enter the body, but ended up on the tips of the fingers, and the person rubbed their eyes with them, this can lead to loss of vision.

Earlier, a rosary was made from abrus seeds in India, therefore the plant is called prayer, and its second name is the rosary. Today such a dangerous production is prohibited in India.

The salts of glycyrrhizic acid contained in the root of the abrus sweeter than sugar 100 times

Vech poisonous

Sometimes called hemlock, this plant prefers meadows and marshes. Found in Europe, Asia, North America. Outwardly, it resembles an edible angelica, which can deceive not only humans, but also domestic animals. If, for example, a cow eats 100 g of a poisonous root, she will die.

The danger to humans is the substance cicutoxin - it causes convulsions and seizures, similar to epileptic ones. The victim's pupils are unnaturally dilated all the time. The digestive organs also suffer from the poison. Poisoning often ends in death.

Vech has a pleasant taste, so animals often "come across"

Aconite

A plant of the buttercup family (many know it as the "fighter") is widespread throughout the globe... It can often be found in gardens and on summer cottages Russians as a decorative culture. However, you should be careful with the plant because of the poison of aconitine contained in the leaves, stems and flowers. It can enter the body by contact, through the skin. When the poison enters the stomach, vomiting and diarrhea begin, the head is spinning, and it becomes difficult for a person to breathe. Respiratory paralysis is the cause of death of the victim.

Ancient Gauls and Germans rubbed arrowheads and spearheads with aconite extract to hunt large predators

This plant, found in European and Siberian forests, is poisonous in everything: the heart can suffer from berries, the central nervous system can suffer from leaves, and the roots have a detrimental effect on the stomach. Crow's eye poisoning symptoms: vomiting, convulsions, respiratory paralysis and, as a result, cardiac arrest.

It is believed that when dried, the plant becomes less dangerous, therefore it is used in traditional medicine, but it is still not worth the risk.

Other Russian names for the plant are raven berries, wolf berries, cross-grass

Belladonna

Other names: belladonna, sleepy stupor, mad berry. Moisture-rich deciduous forests in Europe and Asia are areas where belladonna feels particularly comfortable. In this representative of the Solanaceae family, the poisonous substance atropine is found in all parts, but the roots and fruits are especially dangerous, which seem to be quite edible, but, once in the mouth, cause severe burning and dryness.

Symptoms of belladonna poisoning are photophobia, hallucinations. A person ceases to understand where he is, his speech is confused, sometimes attacks of violent insanity are noted. Death can result from respiratory paralysis.

In the old days, Italian ladies buried belladonna juice in their eyes for a "languid look" - pupils dilated from atropine

Curare poison, which the Indians South America treated with arrows, is found in the roots and stems of strychnos. In curar, scientists isolate two deadly alkaloids - brucine and strychnine, and death from them is called one of the most painful. Symptoms of poisoning are convulsions that affect the entire body of the victim and become especially severe from loud sounds and bright light, as well as respiratory paralysis and heart palpitations. The most likely outcome is fatal.

Symptoms of death from strychnine poisoning are very similar to those of death from tetanus

The area of ​​this beautiful plant With rich in greens, large flowers and fruits - Australia, the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans, tropical regions of Asia. It is sometimes called the tree of suicides, and the name "Cerberus", which is used more often, reminds of the dog Cerberus, according to ancient mythology, who guarded the exit from the kingdom of the dead to the world of the living.

Cerberine poison is found in all parts of the plant. Once in the human body, it blocks the work of the heart, which ultimately leads to its arrest. If the branches of a tree are burned at a stake, the poisonous smoke causes severe poisoning, which the body cannot cope with.

Cerberine blocks the conduction of electrical impulses in the body

In nature, this plant is found in Central America - in coastal areas, marshlands. The tree reaches a height of 15 m. All its parts are toxic, but especially dangerous is the milky sap, which, if it gets into the eyes, leads to blindness, and leaves severe burns on the skin.

If you eat its fruit, which looks quite appetizing, symptoms characteristic of poisoning appear. A similar thing happened to sailors who, having escaped from a shipwreck, ate the fruits of mancinella, mistaking them for edible.

Mancinella is currently listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most dangerous tree in the world.

This beautifully flowering shrub is found in its natural environment in Asian countries, and as a cultivated plant - in parks of almost all continents of the world.

Poisonous substances contained in all parts of oleander are cornerin and oleandrin. If they get inside the body, the person experiences severe pain. The typical symptoms of poisoning are colic, vomiting, diarrhea. In the most severe cases, cardiac arrest occurs.

Preparations obtained from oleander leaves - neriolin and cornerin - were previously used for disorders of cardiovascular activity

In addition to the top 10 most poisonous plants in the world, there are many other dangerous flora found in nature. Even with timely provided medical care the health of a person whose body has been poisoned can be seriously undermined. You should be interested in the nature of the places where you plan to visit in advance.

Since primitive times, man has been using various plants: at first he only ate them, then he learned to make fabrics, paper, houses, ships from them, and having understood their healing properties, he began to isolate them physiologically active substances for the manufacture of effective drugs.
Of course, not all plants are good for humans. They make up a large kingdom of living organisms that have been adapting to constantly changing conditions for hundreds of millions of years. environment... Some of the abilities of plants surprise and amaze us - their use of poisonous substances, sharp thorns and even digestive juice, which helps to cope with insects and even larger representatives of the animal world. There are many types of plants that can harm a person, and some of them are even capable of killing him. What are the top 10 most dangerous plants in the world?

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1. Castor oil plant

From castor bean people get the well-known castor oil, which has been widely used in medicine for a long time as an analgesic and antiviral agent that helps in the treatment of skin diseases. But castor oil plant got into the Guinness Book of Records as the most poisonous plant.
Castor bean grows in Egypt, China, Iran, Brazil, Argentina, where it reaches a decent height of 10 meters, and in temperate climates, like ours, it is much shorter. It is often grown to be very beautiful. ornamental plant with reddish carved leaves. In the shells of its beautiful seeds, castor bean contains the strongest protein poison - ricin, and in all other parts of the plant there is another toxin - the alkaloid ricinin. Ricin is about 5-6 times more toxic than the "classic" poison - potassium cyanide.
In fact, castor beans are not easy to poison - you need to eat a handful of seeds that resemble beans. An adult is unlikely to do this, but children sometimes buy into beautiful "roasted nuts" and almost certainly become its victims. Signs of ricin poisoning appear after a long pause (sometimes more than a day), and then remind food poisoning... Treatment for ricin poisoning is conditional, since there is no antidote against it, and the mortality rate is very high.

2. Mancinella

The manchinella tree belonging to the euphorbia family (also known as Manchinilla, Manzinella) is one of the most poisonous plants on earth. It grows in Central America. The fruits of this beautiful plant have the tender name "apples of death". Fruits similar to small greenish-yellow apples are so poisonous that biting off a few pieces from them, a person can quickly go to their ancestors. The milky juice of these fruits causes the strongest disorder. digestive system, accompanied by vomiting, and then some organs fail and the person dies.
However, not only the fruits, but also the rest of the mancinella are poisonous, since they contain phorbol. Even a simple touch on the trunk of a tree is enough to cause an allergic rash on the skin. If the poison gets inside the body, then death is inevitable. If the sap of the plant gets into the eyes, then the person can go blind. Even from the rain, it is better not to save yourself by standing under the crown of the mancinella, since the water flowing down it is already becoming poisonous. But it is considered a great delicacy obtained from the flowers of mancinella honey.

3. Ongaonga (nettle tree)

This endemic species that lives in New Zealand is also called "ferocious nettle". But the local nettle has a tree trunk, and on the leaves and the trunk itself there are thousands of sharp thorns with a mixture of formic acid and histamine. This New Zealand nettle grows up to 5 meters. The slightest touch to this plant is enough to get a very painful burn. Therefore, people and animals need to stay away from ongaong. There is at least one case of human death from the "gentle embrace" of this inhospitable plant, which affects the nervous system of the victim, dying of respiratory paralysis.

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4. Strychnos poisonous

This tree-like South American liana contains one of the most powerful plant poisons. The vine grows small green juicy fruits. The Indians long ago discovered the secret of this plant and began to use its juice for hunting and war, lubricating the points of their arrows or darts with it. The strongest alkaloid, alpha-tubocurarine, is the active ingredient in this plant toxin. It paralyzes the acetylcholine receptors of the striated muscles, that is, it paralyzes the respiratory function of the body, and a person who has received even a minor scratch with a poisoned arrow can die of suffocation while remaining fully conscious. If the portion of the poison is not too large, then the victim can be saved by doing artificial respiration until the kidneys remove the poison from the body. This poison is widely used in medicine.

5. Belladonna

A rather remarkable plant, common belladonna or belladonna, also has less romantic names - mad berry or mad cherry. It grows in our middle lane as well as in western Asia and North Africa. Its berries contain alkaloids from the atropine group, which can cause hallucinations and delusions in a person. The very first symptoms of belladonna poisoning are dry mouth, shortness of breath, loss of voice, headache and seizures.
The shrub has beautiful blue-purple berries, cherry-sized and sweet in taste. But if you eat a dozen of these berries, then you can say goodbye to life. Belladonna venom greatly dilates the pupils, so in the past, beauties often buried it in their eyes to give them a special shine, and rubbed their cheeks with berries to give them a blush. Belladonna Toxin Kit Targets Work Blocking nervous system, therefore, they are used as an anticholinergic agent in the treatment muscle spasms, asthma and excessive sweating.
The whole plant is poisonous, but most of all its leaves, which contain the alkaloid atropine. It is not uncommon for children to mistake the beautiful belladonna berries for blueberries or blueberries. When a person is poisoned, his vision becomes blurred, the pupils dilate, there is a headache, hallucinations, balance is lost, urine is not drained.

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6. Vyokh is poisonous

This plant has many names: cicuta, cat's parsley, omegas, omezhnik, vyakha, dog angelica, water hemlock, pork louse, gorigolov, mutnik, water rabies. This is a very poisonous plant, and in all parts, but especially at the root. This is a typical umbellate plant with small white or slightly greenish flowers, collected in openwork rosettes.
Cicuta has a very wide habitat throughout the world in areas where there is a humid temperate climate. It is very reminiscent of the smell of parsley or celery and grows in low lush bushes with white umbrellas of inflorescences. Tsikuta is easy to spot against the background of other grass, and its root is easy to extract from the ground. The root is also pleasant to the taste, so many ignorant people, being flattered by this, eat it with pleasure, not realizing that this is the last delicacy in their life.
The main component of the plant's venom is cicutoxin, which can induce seizures. The hemlock poison, which has entered the body, acts very quickly and is able to kill a person in an hour. Poisoning symptoms: nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps. Death usually occurs as a result of paralysis. Death from heart and respiratory failure occurs within hours.

7. Datura

This plant also has several names: devil bell, devil pipe, devil weed. It grows in North America and some of the Caribbean islands. Datura poison is a powerful hallucinogen that cloudes the mind. All parts of the plant are poisonous, but most of all the seeds and leaves. Very beautiful graceful flowers of white-purple, cream or white-pink shades smell very nice and bloom all summer. The toxicity of a plant depends on its age, place of growth and climate characteristics.
Inadvertent consumption of the juice of the leaves or roots of Datura can damage vision, hearing, mouth and throat, as well as the human nervous system, and an overdose can lead to death. Datura toxin contains tropane alkaloids, including atropine and scopolamine, which are powerful hallucinogens. Datura is widely used in medicine. But it cannot be used on its own due to the serious risk of overdose.

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8. Raven eye

The four-leafed raven eye is a forest plant familiar to many living in the European part of the country and in Siberia with single bright blue berries. They are especially dangerous because they are deadly poisonous. After poisoning, nausea and vomiting, seizures, severe headache, disturbances in the cardiovascular system and paralysis appear respiratory tract. ethnoscience uses dried leaves and berries of this plant.

9. Aconite

Other names for this perennial plant from the buttercup family are wrestler or wolf venom (since the Hellenes also used it when hunting wolves and leopards). It grows in the hilly and mountainous regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In the venom of aconite there are many toxic components, chief among which is the alkaloid aconitine. Tubers and roots of wild growing aconite are especially poisonous. This plant grows up to one and a half meters, and for its beautiful large flowers of purple, blue and white it was even made a garden plant.
If you accidentally eat any part of aconite, then vomiting, burning, diarrhea, heart rhythm disturbances, pressure surges will follow, and everything can end in a coma. With a large dose of aconite poison, a person dies. The Japanese used aconite for hunting in the same way as the American Curare Indians.

10. Wolf's bast

It is also daphne and wolfberry - a low (1.5 m) bush growing in central Russia. Daphne has beautiful red and appetizing-looking juicy berries and very fragrant flowers. But if you eat just a few berries, you can die. Signs of poisoning: burning in the mouth and throat, diarrhea, convulsions, vomiting of blood and loss of consciousness. Cardiac arrest and death are possible. The juice of the berry of wolf bast, even with a simple contact with the skin, causes burns, manifested in the form of ulcers and blisters.

Everyone should know about it! All about the most poisonous plants - those that are cultivated for medicinal purposes, about wild and indoor, mushrooms and trees.

Poisonous indoor plants

For example, all plants of the euphorbia, aroid, amaryllis family have a dangerous sap that causes burns on the skin, and if ingested, a rather severe poisoning follows - the gastrointestinal tract, mucous membranes, and even the nervous system are damaged.

Potential indoor poisoners include such popular plants as poinsettia, dieffenbachia, monstera, philodendron, beautiful calla lilies, and even tulips, hyacinths, daffodils! If their juice gets on the skin, you need to immediately wash your hands, and even though you very carefully cut and formed a bunch, you should not touch your eyes with the same hands.

In some plants, for example, nightshade or kutrovy, only some parts are poisonous, as luck would have it, the most attractive for unintelligent children (bright fruits, sometimes tubers). Therefore, you should not keep such flowers in the public domain.

However, life-threatening representatives of flora await us almost everywhere: in the forest, in the meadow, and in the middle lane there are no less of them than in the exotic jungle. Take the same quiet hunt or gathering of medicinal herbs: everywhere you need to know which mushroom or flower is better to bypass.

The most poisonous mushrooms

Also, various mushrooms are confused with mushrooms - not bright red, but panther or smelly. If the brown panther fly agaric most often does not lead to the death of an unlucky taster, then the white smelly fly agaric is almost as poisonous as the pale toadstool.

The next deadly poisonous mushrooms - gallerina - are disguised as honey agarics. They also grow on stumps of the same color. Only experienced mushroom pickers can immediately tell the difference. Moreover, these are not false mushrooms: they are also poisonous, but differ in the shape of the cap.

The most insidious mushroom poisoner is called the most beautiful webcap. Accidentally worming into the basket, it is eaten and digested, but its poison is such that the symptoms of fatal poisoning appear after a couple of weeks. No one even assumes poisoning, so most often the case ends in death.

Poisonous plants of Russia

Take, for example, a plant like aconite, also known as a wrestler. Tall grass with noticeable pipe flowers is completely poisonous, leaves and roots are especially dangerous. A couple of grams of any part of aconite, taken internally, can kill an adult - death occurs from respiratory arrest. Previously, aconite was deliberately used for bad purposes, for example, they poisoned edged weapons with it.

Belladonna is also poisonous, as well as its close relatives dope and henbane - they are all from the nightshade family.

We also meet the famous cicuta, it is a poisonous milestone. It is often mistaken for an edible plant such as celery, as its roots have a pleasant smell and taste. Hemlock poison affects the nervous system. Suffering from hemlock and cattle, accidentally eating it along with other grass - 200 g of roots kill a cow.

Everyone knows both the wolf's bast (wolf berries) and the raven's eye - most often children get poisoning with unusual berries. Fatal cases are few, since berries, to put it mildly, are much more attractive in appearance than in taste, so a large dose can only be eaten deliberately. Another danger is the hogweed - its giant umbrella inflorescences are often found along the roads. When hogweed juice comes into contact with the skin, or simply on contact with leaves, human skin becomes extremely sensitive to ultraviolet light. Bottom line - heavy sunburn, even in the shade. And if you eat a hogweed, then in addition to the somatic signs of poisoning, even reversible mental disorders are observed.

Popular forest and wild flowers, for example, buttercups, lilies of the valley, are also very poisonous. Lilies of the valley are often grown in gardens as ornamental, but all parts of them are poisonous, from roots to berries. You can even poison yourself with water in which there was a bunch of lilies of the valley. The poison affects the activity of the heart.

But buttercups are dangerous only in fresh- during drying, the poison is destroyed, therefore, buttercups hay is safe for animals.

Interestingly, almost all of the listed poisonous plants are widely used in medicine, like other plants not mentioned above. For example, celandine in dermatology, hemlock in oncology and much more. Quantity issue: wrong dosage medicinal plant kills. But there are also representatives of the flora that you should not even approach, let alone use in homeopathic doses. Moreover, they look, so to speak, rather ordinary. It's good that they are not growing with us.

The most poisonous plant in the world

In general, you just need to stay away from the mancinella. Therefore, it is often surrounded by a red marker. Remember and avoid.

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For thousands of years, by trial and error, people have learned which plants are edible and tasty, and which ones are better to bypass. In our urbanized age, we began to forget the valuable experience of our ancestors, and today, in the gardens and on the windowsills of many flora lovers, you can find very insidious representatives of the kingdom Planta, contact with which can end in failure. There are 13 similar plants collected here.

Yes, don't be surprised. One apple a day is very healthy and rich in vitamins, which cannot be said about its seeds, which contain cyanogenic glycosides (when they break down, hydrocyanic acid is formed). Of course, from 1-2 seeds, especially eaten whole, nothing bad will happen, but in large quantities they can be dangerous and especially for children.

The most dangerous plant in the world is found in the forests of Australia and Indonesia, known as the burning tree or Dendrocnide moroides... Like other members of the Nettle family, all parts of the shrub are covered with trichomes containing the neurotoxin moroidin. The unbearable pain from burns with this plant lasts from several days to weeks and even months, while at the moment there is no effective antidote. Repeated burns can cause anaphylactic shock and death. So, be careful walking through the forests of Australia!

Being the source of the textbook "castor oil" or castor oil, castor bean fruits contain one of the most toxic substances in the world - ricin and the alkaloid ricinin. Just one castor bean fruit ricin is enough to kill an adult, despite this, in Europe and the United States, many people grow castor bean as an ornamental plant.

Representatives of the Brugmansia clan are welcome exhibits in the collection of flora lovers, of course, because the large elegant flowers of these shrubs and trees leave no one indifferent. Not surprisingly, these plants are often used in decorative landscaping. However, all parts of brugmansia, especially leaves and seeds, contain a large amount of poisonous alkaloids, including scopolamine, hyoscyamine and atropine.

The poisonous properties of aconite have been known to mankind since ancient times. The barbarians used it to poison the water of their enemies. It was later used as an "effective means of detecting werewolves." All parts of the plant contain a dangerous alkaloid with neurotoxic action, aconitine, for which no antidote has been found. It is known that with the help of aconitine, the First Vice President and Minister of War of Egypt Abdel Hakim Amer committed suicide.

This very insidious plant contains the toxin tremetol, which has a destructive effect both when used directly and indirectly. For example, when goats or cows eat steak, their meat and milk becomes "contaminated" with tremethol toxin and human consumption leads to severe poisoning, also known as "milk sickness". It is known that Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, died from poisoning with just such milk. Today, consignments of milk with stethoscope tremetol are rare, but still occur.

Sleepy stupor or belladonna

Belladonna, belladonna or sleepy stupor - this plant, famous for its poisonous properties, has a rich history of poisoning, both accidental and deliberate, but many people do not even realize that among the closest relatives of this dangerous beauty are potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and spicy chilli. Their leaves, like belladonna, although in smaller quantities, contain toxins that can cause serious poisoning.

Prayer abrus

This liana from the legume family received its religious name for the fact that beads were made from its seeds before. There are many known cases when jewelers died by pricking their fingers with a needle, which pierced seeds, stringing them on a thread. The fact is that the seed juice contains the toxin abrin - chemically very similar to ricin - one of the most deadly compounds on Earth.

Oleander

Oddly enough, but one of the most poisonous plants on the planet is actively used in urban landscaping in the United States and Europe, moreover, it can be found even in playgrounds. Any part of this plant is highly poisonous, even inhaling smoke from burning oleander leaves, stems or flowers can lead to a fatal ending. It is known that in 2002, 847 deaths from contact with this plant were recorded in the United States.

Yew berry or European

Relatively common in Europe and even in the botanical gardens of Russia, this plant is by no means harmless. Particularly poisonous are the beautiful red seedlings surrounding its seeds containing taxanes. The medical literature describes many cases when people tried to commit suicide by eating "berries" and yew leaves. However, today this plant has a different glory. It has been found that taxanes may have anti-cancer activity.

Narcissus

These beautiful flowers, delighting gardeners with their flowering in early spring, have been known since ancient times. Their bulbs, from which they grow, are poisonous. Socrates also referred to them as the "Crown of Hades of the Kingdom" for their strong analgesic effect, however, overdoses often led to death.

Thick-legged raven

The very sight of these eerie berries of the thick-legged crow warns that you should not eat them. After all, they contain cardiogenic toxins that can cause cardiac arrest.

Milestone poisonous or cicuta

Perhaps there is no more famous plant in history than milestones or cicuta, the extract of which Socrates was poisoned with. All parts of the plant contain coniin, a toxin that causes severe abdominal pain, vomiting and progressive paralysis of the nervous system. The plant is also known as the Devil's porridge and poisonous parsley.