Many people don't know that there
are plants that are highly poisonous, so poisonous that your single bite to
these plants is enough to kill you in a matter of minutes. Actually, all plants
contain some amount of toxins as their protection against predators. But, we
are going to enlist top 10 of the most toxic plants that can take your life. Here
goes the list:
10. Doll's Eyes
White Baneberries are popularly
known as Doll's Eyes as its tiny white berry with a small black dot looks very
similar to an eye. It's a flowering plant and the poison is mostly concentrated
in the Doll's Eye part. Accidental bite to Doll's Eyes shows immediate sedative
effects on cardiac muscles that can cause a quick death of anyone.
9. Jimson Weed
Jimson Weed contains poisonous
tropane alkaloids that can cause poisoning in human and other animals as well. If
you happen to eat the seeds and nectar of Jimson Weed, it can kill you. As Jimson
Weed has large flowers, mostly the children get attracted to this.
8. Rosary Pea
Rosary Peas are also popularly known
as Jombie Beads or Crab's Eyes. Actually, they are the slender perennial climbers.
They are so poisonous that even three milligrams of it is enough to kill human.
7. Angel's Trumpets
Angel's Trumpets can be found all
around the globe and are its flowers come with variety of colors and sizes. The
whole plant contains the excessive toxin such as atropine and alkaloids scopolamine
that can take your life, if ingested in the body.
6. Monkshood
Many people know Monkshood with the
name Wolfsbane. It is believed that people once used Monkshood to kill the
werewolves. People also believe that Monkshood was also used by many ancient
warriors to kill their enemies by poisoning water. Monkshood plant contains highly
poisonous alkaloids that slight overdose is enough to kill human.
5. White Snakeroot
White Snakeroot is known to be one
of the highly toxic plants. This plant is said to kill people indirectly. Actually,
they have white flowers and they blow away tiny fluffy seeds in the wind. When the
cattle eat this plant, the toxin called tremetol is absorbed into their milk
and meat. The people who consume the milk and meat of infected livestock get
the sickness called Milk Sickness. Milk Sickness is known as one of the most dangerous
diseases. This disease has taken the life of the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
4. Belladonna
Mostly known as Deadly Nightshade or
Death Cherries, Belladonna is also one of the most toxic plants known in the
earth. This plant contains tropane alkaloids that cause delirium and
hallucinations. About 10 berries of Belladonna can kill you while only one leaf
is enough to take the life of any adult human.
3. Water Hemlock
Water Hemlock is another toxic plant
that can kill you. All parts of this plant contain alkaloid coniine which is
known to cause stomach pains and progressive paralysis. If you happen to ingest
the excessive amount of Water Hemlock, it can take your life. This plant is
said to have killed Socrates.
2. Oleander
According to many people, Oleander
is the most poisonous plant in the planet earth. Its plant contains different types
of toxins such as Oleandrinn and neriine that can cause dangerous effect on
heart. Even a single leaf of Oleander is enough take your life. Not only that
but also the smoke from a burning Oleander is reported to cause death.
1. Castor
Have you ever guessed the Castor Plants can be the most poisonous plant in the world? But, it will astound you to know that the Castor plant holds the Guinness World Record for the most toxic plant known in the world. Single Caster seed possess enough ricin to kill an adult within few minutes.
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