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Printer Friendly VersionPLANTS AND POISON
- Never eat part of any plant or mushroom with which you are unfamiliar.
- Teach children to never put leaves, bark, stems, seeds, nuts, or berries from plants into their mouths.
- Learn to identify the names of all the plants in your home and yard in case you need to report a poisoning to the Poison Control Center.
- If you don't know the name of a plant in your home or yard, have it identified at a landscape or gardening center.
- Don't assume a plant is not poisonous because birds or other wildlife are eating it.
- Don't assume that cooking destroys toxic chemicals in plants.
The following plants contain a wide variety of poisons, so symptoms can vary from a mild stomach irritation, rash, throat and mouth swelling to involvement of the kidneys, heart and other vital organs.
| Acorn Anemone Angel Trumpet Tree Apple Seeds Apricot Pit Kernels Arrowhead Avocado Leaves Azaleas Betel Nut Palm Bittersweet Buckeye Buttercups Caladium Calla Lily Castor Bean Chinese Lantern Creeping Charlie (Ground Ivy/glechoma hedercea) Crocus, Autumn Daffodil Daphne Delphinium Devil's Ivy Dieffenbachia (Dumb Cane) Elderberry Elephant Ear English Ivy Four O'Clock | Foxglove Hedge Apples Hemlock, poison Holly Berries Horsetail Reed Hyacinth (Bulbs) Hydrangea Iris Ivy (Boston, English) Jack-In-The-Pulpit Jequirty Bean/Pea Jerusalem Cherry Jessamine (Jasmine) Jimson Weed (Thorn Apple) Jonquil Lantana Camara Larkspur Laurels Lily-Of-The Valley Lobelia Marijuana Mayapple Mescal (Peyote) Mistletoe Moonseed Monkshood Morning Glory | Mushroom Narcissus Nephthytis Nightshade Oleander Peach Seeds Periwinkle Philodendron Poison Ivy Poison Oak Poppy (except Cal.) Pokeweed Potato Sprouts Primrose Ranunculus Rhododendron Rhubarb Blade Rosary Pea Star-Of-Bethlehem Sweet Pea Tobacco Tomato Vines Tulip Water Hemlock Wisteria Yew |
If you have an emergency call: 1-800-222-1222
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| Minnesota Poison Control System |