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Toxicity Rating
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deaths recorded and/or cause severe reactions
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can cause dermatitis or irritate skin on contact
Common Name
A
Aconite or Monkshead
Angel’s Trumpet
Description
Long, rough stem with purple
flowers
Creamy white flowers trumpet
shaped
Apple
Arum Lily
B
Black Nightshade or
Blackberry Nightshade
Bluebell
Butterfly Iris
C
Cafta or Arabian Tea
Calla Lily
Cardinal Flower
Carolina Jasmine
Castor Oil Plant
Christmas Rose
Cow’s Udder Plant
Crab Apple
Cunjevoi
Creamy white tubular flowers
Blue to white tubular flowers
Flowers white with yellow or
purple markings, Honey
scented, Fruits are cylindrical
capsules
Creamy bell shaped flower
Yellow tubular flowers
(perfumed), Leaves long narrow
Pointed dark green leaves with
red veins, Spiky red flower
White flower with yellow
stamens
Green broad leaves with bright
yellow fruit shaped like cows’
udder
Small white tubular
flowers/apple shaped fruit 1-2cm
Wide glossy leaves hood
shaped flower (usually found in
rainforests)
Toxic Parts
Toxicity
Rating
All parts
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Nectar, seeds
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Leaves, seeds in large
amounts
All parts
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Green fruit/berries
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Bulb
All parts
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All parts
All parts
All parts
All parts
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Seeds, few
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All parts
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Unripe fruit/leaves
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Leaves, seeds in large
amounts
All parts
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D
Daffodil
Daphne
Deadly Nightshade
(also known as
Belladonna)
Death Cap Mushroom
(World’s most
poisonous mushroom)
Dumbcane
Duranta or Golden
Dewdrop
E
Elephant’s Ear or Taro
English Yew
F
Fly Agaric Mushroom
(see also Death Cap)
Foxglove
Tall stemmed, yellow flowering
plants
Leaves 4-20mm long, Flowers
honey scented, White tubular,
Fruits are yellow to red
Small deep purple berries
attached to star shaped base
Sap and bulb
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Berries
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Berries: few
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Looks very much like a field
mushroom but has cup at base
of stalk
All
NB: Mushrooms that
have redness on are
also toxic
Berries:few
Berries
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Root
Seeds, leaves
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All parts
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All parts
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Sap
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Indoor plant
Yellow berries
Small narrow pointed leaves
with red berries
Fungi with a cup at base of the
stalk, May have some redness
Flowers are purplish white to
pale pink, Fruits are dry
rounded capsules
Frangipani
G
Gidgee-Gidgee, Crab’s
Eye or Rosary Pea
Glory Lily
Golden Chalice
Golden Dewdrop
Golden Top
(Mushroom)
Bright red and black seeds in
pods
Flowers are red tubular, about
10cm long
Yellow Berries
Fungi with a cup at base of
stalk, May have some redness
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All parts, especially
seeds
All parts, especially root
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Sap, leaves, flowers
All parts, especially fruit
All parts
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H
Hemlock
NB Children have been
known to use these as
pea shooters or whistles
Henbane
Hollow stems, Leaves look like
parsley, Roots look like
parsnip, White flowers
All parts, large amounts
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Hairy plant with an unpleasant
smell
All parts
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Sap, especially in
berries
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Fruit: large amounts
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Small fragrant yellow or white
flowers (look like small
daffodils)
Sap and bulb
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Tree with drooping golden
flowers
All parts
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Berries, green fruit
Seeds, seedlings
All parts
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All parts
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Sap
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Berries
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All parts
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I
Italian Arum
J
Japanese Pepper Tree
Japanese Wax Tree
Jessamine
Jonquil
L
Laburnum
Lantana
Larkspur
Lily of the Valley
Lobelia
Bright purple flowers
White bell shaped flowers,
Large green leaves
Plant with bright, especially
blue flowers
Lords and Ladies
M
Madiera Winter Cherry
Mushrooms (see golden
top, fly agaric and death
cap)
O
Oleander (see also
yellow oleander)
A shrub 2-6m high, Evergreen,
Flowers can be white or pink
through to dark red
P
Peach
Poinsettia
Poison Ivy
Potatoes (green)
R
Rhubarb
Rhus Tree/Smoke Tree
T
Toadstools (also see
Mushrooms)
Tie Brush
Plant with large scarlet bracts
(leaf like) surrounding small
yellow flowers
American climbing plant
secreting an irritant oil from its
leaves
Potatoes that have a green
colour to them contain a poison
called solanine. NB If cut away
they are safe to eat
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Greek skin and shoots
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Plant with long fleshy read
leave stalks
Deciduous tree that turns a
beautiful deep red in Autumn
(same family as poison ivy)
Leaf, blade
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All parts
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Round top/ slender stalk
All parts
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Orangey/ red fruit, Small
flowers
Fruit
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Leaves and flowers
●
Fruit, leaf, bark, flowers
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Bark dark brown with greyish
ridges, Leaves 2-7cm long,
Flowers lilac, Fruit yellowish
brown and oval shaped
Wintersweet
Y
Yellow Oleander
Yew Tree
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Sap, leaves, fruit
Tree Tobacco
W
White Cedar Tree
Kernel, flower, leaf, back
Sap
Fruit and plant
Long thin waxy leaves, Yellow
flowers
Dark leaved evergreen tree
bearing berry-like cones
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All parts
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Seed in pod
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