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And today's poisonous plant is...
Sep. 18th, 2009 04:17 pmwhite baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)
It's in the woods where I walk, and I tried twice to photograph it, so startling with its white berries on their purple-red stalks, but my pictures came out blurry. But here is what Google offers:
The plant is also called doll's eyes, for the berries' creepy resemblance to the same. Eyes--poisonous eyes--growing on a red stalk. Yes, the berries are the poisonous part. Wikipedia says, The berries contain cardiogenic toxins which can have an immediate sedative affect on human cardiac muscle tissue ... Ingestion of the berries can lead to cardiac arrest and death.
So don't eat them. Have an autumn raspberry instead.
It's in the woods where I walk, and I tried twice to photograph it, so startling with its white berries on their purple-red stalks, but my pictures came out blurry. But here is what Google offers:
The plant is also called doll's eyes, for the berries' creepy resemblance to the same. Eyes--poisonous eyes--growing on a red stalk. Yes, the berries are the poisonous part. Wikipedia says, The berries contain cardiogenic toxins which can have an immediate sedative affect on human cardiac muscle tissue ... Ingestion of the berries can lead to cardiac arrest and death.
So don't eat them. Have an autumn raspberry instead.
