Dieffenbachia (Dumb Cane)
Dieffenbachia, also known as dumb cane, is highly toxic and not recommended for cultivation. Merely coming into contact with its sap can cause itching, and if it gets into the eyes, it can lead to a burning sensation and severe discomfort. If ingested, one may experience lip numbness and throat irritation. Children who consume the leaves or flowers of this plant are at risk of poisoning. Keep young ones away from the plant, and prevent them from touching or breaking its branches to avoid allergic reactions and skin burns from the sap. If you accidentally get the sap on your skin, use a hairdryer to heat the affected area and reduce itching. Rinse your eyes and mouth with warm water if the sap gets into them.
Golden Chain Tree
The golden chain tree (Laburnum anagyroides) contains toxins in its flowers, leaves, fruits, and seeds, which can be fatal to humans. The tree exudes a white sap that contains cardiac glycosides, notably thevetin A and thevetin B. While this sap has been used medicinally in small doses for heart failure treatment, it is highly toxic in larger amounts. These glycosides can cause severe symptoms such as tingling, mouth ulcers, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, drowsiness, coma, seizures, and cardiac arrhythmias. Children are particularly vulnerable to this plant, often found in home gardens and school grounds, so keep them away from it.
Golden Chain Tree (Laburnum anagyroides) contains toxins in its flowers, leaves, fruits, and seeds.
Money Tree Plant
The money tree plant, also known as a money plant or money tree, is popular for its auspicious name. However, it contains toxins in its stems and leaves that can harm humans, especially children, upon contact. The stems and leaves of the money tree plant contain high levels of calcium oxalate crystals, which can irritate sensitive skin and the mucous membranes of the tongue, lips, throat, and eyes. When ingested in large quantities, calcium oxalate can cause nausea and severe gastrointestinal distress, leading to difficulty breathing, seizures, and even coma in severe cases. If children consume the leaves or get the sap on their skin or mucous membranes, they may experience itching, a burning sensation in the mouth, swelling, inflammation, and a potential airway blockage.
Chinese Money Plant
The Chinese money plant’s fruits are highly toxic, especially the seeds, which contain high levels of harmful alkaloids. Ingesting these seeds can lead to whole-body spasms, respiratory muscle paralysis, suffocation, and even death. Despite their attractive appearance, it is best not to grow these plants indoors or in gardens due to the high risk they pose, especially to children.
Chinese Money Plant: Its fruits contain highly toxic seeds with harmful alkaloids.
Bird of Paradise
The Bird of Paradise is commonly used for landscaping, but its flowers and seeds can cause gastrointestinal poisoning, leading to nausea, diarrhea, and dizziness. Avoid touching or consuming the flowers and seeds, as they can cause a burning sensation on the tongue, nausea, diarrhea, and dizziness. Prolonged exposure to the flowers’ fragrance may also cause discomfort.
Rhododendron
Rhododendron contains toxins such as andromedotoxin and arbutin glucoside. Poisoning from this plant can result in nausea, excessive salivation, vomiting, fatigue, dizziness, difficulty breathing, and loss of balance. Ingesting just 100-225g of its leaves can cause severe poisoning in a 25kg child.
Monstera Deliciosa
All parts of the Monstera Deliciosa plant contain the toxins calcium oxalate and asparagine, which can cause burning and itching sensations in the mouth and irritate the intestinal mucosa if ingested.
Monstera Deliciosa: All parts of the plant contain calcium oxalate and asparagine toxins.
Pothos (Devil’s Ivy)
The leaves and vines of the Pothos plant, like the money tree plant, contain calcium oxalate crystals. If ingested by children, it can cause diarrhea, nausea, and a burning sensation in the mouth’s mucous membranes.
Sago Palm
The Sago Palm contains the compound alkaloids in its trunk, which poses a potential cancer risk, while the seeds contain cycasin, which can poison children. Keep this plant out of children’s reach for their safety.
Iron Tree
The Iron Tree, also known as the money tree, is a common houseplant but contains toxins. Its leaves contain substances that can stimulate saliva production, and if ingested by children, may cause vomiting, high fever, and digestive disorders.
In addition to the above plants, many other ornamental plants are toxic, such as the bean plant, which contains a resin that causes severe blistering, and 10-20 drops can kill a large cow. The castor bean plant (Ricinus communis) is also toxic, especially its seeds, which contain the poison curcin, leading to dizziness and nausea if ingested. The cactus plant’s sap can cause a burning sensation when it comes in contact with the skin. The hydrangea, despite its exquisite appearance, contains hydragin-cyanogenic glycoside, which can cause diarrhea, vomiting, and difficulty breathing. Daffodils contain alkaloids that can cause dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, coma, and even death. Lastly, the Cape honeysuckle (Tecoma capensis) has fruits containing the toxins lantanin alkaloid and lantadene A, which can cause gastrointestinal irritation, muscle relaxation, and circulatory disorders and, in severe cases, death.
If you are concerned about the potential toxicity of houseplants, it is best to avoid keeping them in your living space.
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