10 of the most poisonous plants

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10th place. Tox
This family of plants, the most common types of which are poison ivy and poison oak. These trees grow mainly in Asia, North and South America. Emit volatile toxin that causes severe allergies from which affects millions of Americans each year.





9th place. Jasieniec
Jasieniec - herbaceous plant growing in the temperate latitudes. The risk to humans of the essential oils contained in it. In contact with the skin causing severe chemical burns that heal very long. There is a belief that if a clear calm day bring to this plant fire, the flames flare up around it, without damaging itself fraxinella. In the Old Testament it was called "burning bush».



8th place. Hogweed
It belongs to the family umbrella, it is widely distributed in temperate latitudes. Some of its species contain substances that cause photochemical severe burns. This means that when hit hogweed sap on your skin, nothing happens until this site will not get sunlight. At the same moment, a strong chemical burn.



7th place. Crow's Eye
It grows in the forests of Central Europe and Siberia. Toxic is the entire plant, especially the rootstock and berries. The substance contained in it, can cause nausea, vomiting, cramps, and sometimes paralysis of the respiratory tract.



6th place. Belem and dope
Both plants of the Solanaceae family, have the same toxic substance belonging to the alkaloids. In mild poisoning it causes speech disorder, hallucinations and delusions; in severe - convulsions with loss of consciousness, sometimes develop a coma and respiratory paralysis.



5th place. Hemlock
Another name - milestones poisonous. It grows in Europe, and looks like an edible plant angelica. However, there should not be, because the whole plant poisonous, especially the stem and roots. Cicutoxin secrete a substance that causes convulsions and respiratory failure.



4th place. Oleander
This beautiful flower is fraught with terrible threat, since even its poisonous pollen. This plant is common in sub-tropical regions and is widely used in landscape design. But few know that the juice of oleander ingestion causes colic and vomiting, and sometimes fatal.



3rd place. Manchineel
This tree of the family Euphorbiaceae grows in the Caribbean and Florida. Highlights thick poisonous juice, which the Indians used to lubricate arrowheads while hunting. Even touching the crust cause allergies, and getting the poison in the blood can kill.



2nd place. Curare
This is the well-known plant in South America, also used by the Indians. It contains curare poison instantaneous, paralyzing muscles. The victim dies from lack of oxygen caused by paralysis of the respiratory tract.



1 place. Castor bean
This is the most poisonous tree on the planet. Growing castor mainly in the tropics and subtropics, and from the get castor oil. However, in its fruit contains extremely toxic substance - ricin. Ingestion causes enteritis, vomiting and colic, but only 0, 25 grams of the substance can kill an adult human.
There are only 10 common poisonous plants, and there are many more, and even such seemingly safe plants like tulip, daffodil, hyacinth, magnolia and lily of the valley, can cause allergic reactions or poisoning.



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