These small white flowers are some of the prettiest wildflowers around, but if you have curious pets, you should remove them. Just one leaf from this striking flower has been known to harm a child! Symptoms of poisoning include drowsiness, slowed heart rate and uncontrollable shaking. Even the water you place cut lily-of-the-valley flowers in can contain deadly traces of convallatoxin, which intensifies the heart’s contractions. These tiny, white bell-like shaped flowers pack a potent, sweet-smelling scent despite its small size, but just a bite can cause headaches, hot flushes, hallucinations and irritability – not to mention red blotches of cold, clammy skin. After you lose your voice, respiratory complications, intense digestive disruption, and violent convulsions begin – the combination of which has proven fatal. Steer very clear of this one – though the entire plant is toxic, if you pop just a handful of berries in your mouth you’ll be physically incapable of calling for help. There have only ever been two documented cases of them causing human death, but you’ll want to keep your children and pets away from them nonetheless, as vomiting and diarrhoea could be rife if ingested. Most often seen around the festive period, the milky sap in the veins of this plant is actually quite toxic. But don’t worry, pets and humans would need to ingest quite a bit for the effects of this flower to be fatal. These popular blossoms contain a toxin that we’ll all be scarily familiar with: cyanide! It can cause shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting, and a rapid pulse, along with a drop in blood pressure.
“From potentially suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, to hallucinations and convulsions – these are some of many reasons Brits should educate themselves on the potentially harmful plants hiding in and around their homes.” Here are 10 deadly plants that could be hiding in your home or garden: 1 Foxgloveĭon’t let the pretty colours and striking appearance of the foxglove flower fool you – these bell-shaped blooms contain a compound used for treating heart failure, so eating them is like taking an unregulated dose of heart medicine! 2 Hydrangea “Whilst most are only deadly if consumed in large quantities, they still pack nasty toxins that can cause some pretty horrible side effects. “But in actual fact, some of the most toxic plants and flowers are perfectly capable of growing and surviving in the UK – and they do so in thousands of homes and gardens. Whilst to many, poisonous petals and toxic leaves might only be found in the pages of their favourite childhood fairy tales, the reality is that some of the nation’s favourite and most common domestic and wild plants are actually harbouring harmful – and even deadly – toxins.Ī spokesperson for commented: “Being killed by eating part of a deadly plant sounds like something from a horror movie, or something that could only happen to somebody living in the most tropical countries. Subscribe to our magazine for more great contentīritish gardeners have been warned to beware of poisonous and toxic plants lurking in their flowerbeds this spring.Īs spring rolls around and thousands of gardening enthusiasts take to their backyards to preen and plant, the garden experts at have compiled a list of the ten deadly plants we should be steering away from this year.
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