The Top 10 Deadliest Plants (They Can Kill You!)
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- Some plants and flowers can be beautiful, but also extremely deadly. Join SciShow's Michael Aranda for a look into the top 10 deadliest plants, and find out just how toxic they are to humans and animals.
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I've actually seen manchineel when I was visiting Mayan ruins in the Yucatan in Mexico. There's actually an orange coloured tree that grows near them that have flaky bark and if you rub it on the sap burn from the manchineel it reduces the pain. There was actually a Mayan legend about two twins, the evil one became the manchineel and the good one became the orange tree to help those who fell victim to his brother.
Cool
wow thats preety cool
Ehh, Thats pretty good
OK, dumb question time, orange colour or orange fruit?
guessing ricin
"Oh you don't have to worry, it grows in south america"
* watching from Peru *
good luck my man
I feel like peruvians have bigger concerns than endangered trees tbh. Like I'm sure there's non-endangered poisonous trees there.
🌸 it’s also found in Trinidad, I’ve seen it up close in person
No one is obviously allowed to even pick a leaf, it’s so toxic
And in texas
lol
Geeze, I remember playing with nightshade berries and some red berries when I was a kid (we knew nightshade was deadly, or as my grandmother told me, would make me sleep forever). My cousins and I would throw them at each other. It's another of those "How the hell did I survive my childhood" moments.
I mean it sounds like if it was just one or two of them it probably wouldn't be enough to kill but it would still be a very bad idea.
@@Sara3346 2 consumed berries is enough to kill a child
Also make sure you don't climb up tree branches that break and coconut falling from tree can kill a person.
Candice H Hahaha! You got that right!
Their are these red berries called English yew and they made a sticky substance and because it was infront of my elementary school and unless you did an instrument they made you stay outside I'm pretty sure once or twice in rain or snow but yeah so we would throw them and it would stain the whole front floor of the school concrete with red stains but yeah now that I'm in 7th grade i left that school and even moved a town away but my block had the same bush and i have a feature i just discovered on my phone called google oebs which makes it so if you get a picture of something it will tell you what it is and so i did it with the bush on September 19th this year and i finally got the name so the first thing i did was look up why are they sticky and a sixth grader i know asked to look up if they're toxic and so i was like"they probably are not but ok" and turns out 50 grams of the bark or leaves can kill and adult and 1 or 2 seeds can kill a child and i was throwing them at other kids in elementary school (don't worry it was a game we made so 3rd grade me would throw at them and they would throw back making a berry nerf war so we called them berry wars and im serious they were fun also we called them berries because we didn't know the name and i didn't until today)but the flesh or the part you eat is safe and good people say also the seed that is the most toxic part is said to be really tasty like other deadly mushoabd also the water hemlock so I'm 12 and confused how i survived,will still play with the sticky substance and study them though
Fun fact about Nightshade: it is also known as belladonna which means beautiful woman in Italian. Since one of the symptoms of its poisoning causes the pupils to dilate, high-class woman would put a tiny amount to dilate their eyes to give themselves a doe-eyed look because it would make them more beautiful (and temporally blind themselves.)
yes! and another (odd) but darkly amusing fact: People used to confuse the flowers from belladnna for tomatoes. I bet they were like: wtf why am I sick! also since forever people have had (hopefully) small amounts to get high, or as a sleep aid. Like: hey barkeep I'll take a nightcap with a side of barfing! can you orange for that please?
Yeah they were forced to stay out of the sun because the blinking squinting and tears spoiled the effect. Blindness in older age was much in vogue back then too.
Eyes can take only so much.
Atropine witch is a tropane alkaloid is the chemical that makes you get enlarged pupils. Eye doctor once gave me some atropine and my pupils got so big that it was wery hard to see. The atropine from all I know might have come from a Belladonna or maye a different plant in the nightshade family like Henbane, Mandrake or Datura.
Well that explains “ Love is blind.”
I had NO idea plants could be dangerous until last night. I am old too. I think I have this at my house. I moved here one year ago. We have maple trees with long white flowers that have a beautiful artistic design in the inside of the flower. They are everywhere. I have had an eye conditiin, keradachonis with astignatism since I was 13. My friend was here last night and noticed my "large pupils" and here I am. I am upset and concerned. I have four children. I live in the US. Anybody know what I can do? I had no clue plants could make people sick. Thanks
I'm going to try to guess 1 plant before I watch this video.
A nuclear plant.
Get out :l
ಠ_ಠ
W
+DrunkenRampage read nuclear 2.0 by mark lunas - see what you think
+DrunkenRampage Bu-dum dis
I live in a rural valley area and Foxglove grows EVERYWHERE, farmers have to go around cutting it out of their paddocks. I still really like Foxglove, very aesthetically pleasing.
I have a bunch of hemlock growing in my backyard. I've also had deadly nightshade and pokeweed pop up. The woods behind my house have snakeroot, stinging nettles, more hemlock, poison ivy, and probably some other stuff that i haven't ID'ed yet like mushrooms
Basically, dont go messing with a plant unless you're 110% sure it's not gonna mess with you back
what state?
Can I have some hemlock? I have someone I need to take revenge on.
@@makssachs8914 your roommate ?
Your backyard is absolutely awesome ! Can I send my roommate over there to camp out for a while ?
Stinging nettles and pokeweed are actually both edible and very nutritious when cooked properly. It's the cooked "properly" part that most people really seem to have a problem with.
The Manchineel tree is actually quite common in Barbados, they grow along much of the shoreline, my brother and I played with them as kids when we were there visiting family. One of the Bajans noticed what we were doing and told us to stop and wash our hands in the ocean. We were both alright, but it was pretty scary. He kept asking us if we ate any of it and it was obvious that he was concerned. Fortunately, we didn't eat them, but they do look like small apples or quince that aren't ripe.
This tree grows also in Curaçao, at Piscadera Baai. I climbed in it, and the next day I was covered in blisters.
Are you dryads?
Moral of the story... Just don't eat random plants.
David Butt And if you have to eat a wild plant, know exactly what you're eating. Know the difference between blueberries (good for muffins) and deadly nightshade (terrible to eat, especially in muffins)
My thoughts exactly.
David Butt are muffins good for muffins
Good choice. Moral #2- Don't ever eat blueberries BCUZ THEY CULD BE NITESHADE AND DAS NAHT GUD
Is it 'cause it tastes bad? @@joshuahunt3032
"you dont need to worry. they only are found in south america"
and i live in south america.
+Matheus Farias Well good luck with the... you know, dying thing.
Then you need to worry bro hahah
Anurag Sharma
*why are you laughing he may die*
Don’t worry I live in central america
you misunderstood it; they are mostly found in the southern North America and northern South America (not the whole continent). Probably the population from those countries in that region is already aware about this tree and its implications. If you never heard on it probably you live more in middle to southern part of South America :)
Plant: These Humans eat us
Other plants: They have this thing called a heart
Plant: I'm listening
for those curious this is what the manchineel tree does to you; czcams.com/video/NISWwty2oW8/video.html
its literally glue-like sap gets on your skin and its acid forms ulcers in your skin.
Human: Eats plants foliage.
Plant: So, you have chosen death?
The old medicine woman, "Aunt Shawnee" was the last of her people in the area. She had stayed after a forced relocation of her tribe by the government and was likely in a lot of danger by being there. But she still chose to heal. Legends, both of them!
the trick is to stay indoors 100% of your life so you will never encounter these plants
I go out side all the time.Plus,I live in the amarican Northwest.
Ehhhh another American Northwestener.
Demoturtle but what if you want to die because of crippling depression 🤔😎
+05x32
I actually spend most of my time indoors - I'm an introvert who loves video games, and is sensitive to light.
Why would I ever go outside, save for going out to cafes (just for the food, not for 'social stuff') or university?
Demoturtle yep be homeschooled work from home order all your items and groceries and always have people do you other tasks
R.ibosome
I.nactivating
P.rotein
Underrated comment
Some years ago, a group of boys scouts cut some sticks to roast hotdogs on. The sticks were oleander, which it seems killed some of the scouts. A giraffe was killed by oleander here at the zoo in Tucson. People brought things they had trimmed from their yards. Someone brought both oleander and Carolina jasmine, both common in yards here. The zoo no longer accepts yard trimmings except from a few trusted people.
There's an interesting book titled The Poisoner's Handbook which is about the history of forensic medicine being developed and used to scientifically determine how and why people died from something they ingested, whether it was an accidental or intentional poisoning. A fascinating read ,especially if you like exploring grim or macabre subjects. Forensic science got a particular boost in funding and research when prohibition led to huge numbers of people being poison from adulterated or badly made bootleg alcohol.
The government went on it's own poisoning spree by adding wood alcohol to booze to punish the sinners. Killed an unknown number of people but we know that it was a lot. Numbering in the tens of thousands.
Ah fanaticism. And it's alive and well today.
Oh I remember the story! I was at Home Depot and my mother was looking at Foxglove. I put my face really close to it and said "what a pretty flower!" And the Home Depot guy said, "Oh, yes! It's poisonous! Eating it could kill you."
I was very little and absolutely horrified. I've been terrified of Foxglove since, even though it's a very irrational fear.
“Deadly poison? OR delectable tea ?!?”
Only if you substitute bleach for water.
It gives the tea more body...or bodies, if you serve more than one person.
Gives a whole new meaning to the expression "I'm dying for a cuppa!"
"You didn't..."
Iroh, No!
The giant hogweed is pretty gruesome too. The sap genetically alters your skin removing its UV resistance and can cause third degree sunburns wherever it had touched. I forget how long the effect lasts. It might be seven or ten years. England waged a very expensive and ineffective war against it. Also in Wisconsin, if a person sees it, they are supposed to call the DNR who will come and try to destroy it. It likes cold wet places like river banks and originally came from Russia.
Oleander was planted in the middle median along Highway 101 in S.F. Bay Area. That’s the best place where no one can get to them. A farm near me had planted them around the property away from any farm animals. Well, they had inexperienced landscapers to clean them up. They had thrown them in a cow pasture not knowing they were poisonous and about 30 cows died. It was sad to drive by and see the cows there in the pasture until they were removed.
You should do a list of edible plants that happen to also be poisonous or dangerous- like fig tree sap which can cause horrible rashes & welts if you're not careful when trimming the trees, potato fruits which can be mistaken for tomatoes but are poisonous, skin burns & rash from when handling carrot foliage and UV exposure are combined, extreme drying & peeling of the hands when cutting & handling butternut squash that has not been cured/aged, etc. Good stuff to know, especially with the current trend of people starting to grow their own food again.
Really? I grew one and cooked the only fruit on the vine??
And rhubarb leaves are poisonous even though we eat the stalks
Celery kinda also does the UV issue on human skin when picked.
Yeah food plants can be very toxic or irritating. Dig down into that black french zucchini and get its stickers shred not only your arms but the fruit you're harvesting. Radishes, mustards, carrots, squash, figs, artichokes and strawberry leaves. All can rash you out. And I don't recommend that.
Also there are edible plants that have parts that contain urushiol (the irritant in poison ivy)
Like mango peel and cashew nut hulls.
Man, plants are just the most interesting thing. I would love more episodes on plant chemistry and biology, and how humans use/have used plants throughout history.
Should have included Giant Hogweed, very dangerous and much more common than Manchineel
Giant Hogweed lives in my nightmares. A plant that's 2 to 4x my height that basically makes you allergic to the sun? No thanks.
Nightshade is actually quite common. I've even seen some of its greens in bunches of supermarket vegetables, like spinach and chard. Always make sure you check your greens, before cooking. Most outside plants are grasses, but nightshade can easily get in to a commercially harvested bunch.
Yeah it's actually invasive in a lot of the USA.
The reason it's such a problem? Many birds can safely eat Nightshade berries, and they do exactly what Nightshade wants them to do: spread it all over the place by pooping out the undigested seeds. This can mean a singular plant getting its seeds strewn about for like hundreds of miles. Oops.
Normal nightshades that aren't deadly are ok to eat though, yeah? Like, tomatoes and peppers are nightshades, and you can eat their leaves.
@@sydneygorelick7484 In small amount the leaves won't poison you. Not worth the risk though.
@@sydneygorelick7484 Normal nightshades? So it has to be non toxic in order to be qualified as a normal nightshade. I dont understand your logic. Mandrake, Henbane and Belladonna for instance was used in the civilized world way before we discovered non toxic nightshades. Henbane, Belladonna and Mandrake was even used in ale or wine brewing in order for the ale/mead to give a stronger buzz then the alcohol.
@@sydneygorelick7484deadly no gut shade isn’t grown with commercial produce or sold in grocery stores.
People watching this video now in a suspects list.
Fuc
Fuuuuuuuc
OR...you're an outdoor plant forager and need to learn what NOT to eat!
No this cant be true! but one thing how can one analyze this number of suspects
😂bet
Plants that could kill me? No. I want plants that _will_ kill me. Plants that will come after me with a knife and a vendetta.
just hire a fucking hitman
Living Tar Or just move to arizona where there are jumping cactuses.
Cylindropuntia fulgida, it's a cactus with parts that easily pop off and latches on to whatever got near it. It does it so that I can spread it's seeds.
Zim Vader0017 How does it know when something is in its vicinity?
It doesn't. The bulbs are easily detachable. Say a wolf happened to walk by it and accidentally brushes it's tail against the cactus. It's going to have a bunch of spiky bulbs full of seeds attached to its tail.
milk sickness unheard of
lactose intolerance: im a joke to you?
Not the same thing
foxglove and oleander are two of my favorite flowers, tho wolfsbane is also super beautiful
Belladonna is quite a pretty shrub.
Giant Hogweed, at up to fifteen feet high, gives good backround height.
Wow, so edgy
You forgot Ricinus, no prizes for guessing what that contains. Atropine is also used as an antidote for a organophosphate poisoning and vice versa, they cancel each other out which is pretty cool.
For oleander, one should also avoid using it as firewood, especially to cook stuff over.
As hundreds of gulf wind butterflies eat it and make their chrysalis all over the trees outside my parents house every year. How is this?? Lol
@@mommyharris1111 it is poisonous to you not them.
For me it affects my allergies
I heard it can poison honey if planted within range of a hive..
yeah and funny enough my parrents when I was a yute had a raised flower bed that had some oleander in it. Pretty af. weirldly enough they also grew strawberries and blackberries in the same flowerbed. I have no idea how my dad didn't get violently ill from picking fruit in the morning before work.
I've encountered many of these plants in my life from childhood.
We were smart enough not to eat it.
The problem I have with the Van Gough assessment is that if he was seeing things with a yellow tinge, it's unlikely that he would have chosen actual yellow. He would be more likely to choose yellow if he really had trouble seeing yellow in the first place, as he would be unaware of how yellow his paintings were getting.
Nightshade is why I never would eat wild berries.
pussy
My parents had this as a huge vine climbing the outside of our greenhouse when i was a kid. Very pretty flowers, but tasted horrible. jk!
+Ruffles the great at least he isnt pikachu
+BenCubed I have wild Black Raspberries growing near me, I tried them and didn't die! They are yummy and grow wild and wild blackberries have to toxic look-a-likes.
+BenCubed
Well, only eat what you know. And deadly nightshade looks soo different than other berries. Also it takes some berries to harm you (if you are an adult). They aren't even tasty. Some kind of verry dull sweetness.
As much as I love Michael presenting the information, I would have loved to see the plants more than a blurry millisecond when he named them. I mean, isn't the point of this list to avoid those plants? ;)
You realise that you can pause the video?
Llol. You need to avoid mikael. He's the belladonna of hot men.
@@sabinadonofrio8863 I'm asexual. But thanks for the warning lol
@@cloverhighfive lllol!!!what does that mean? Being flirtatious doesn't mean sexual.
@@sabinadonofrio8863 oh that was flirtatious? I didn't know. I'm the asexual who doesn't get flirting - cause I don't experience attraction to other people. I don't understand why and how ppl flirt. I don't know the endgame. I get none of it.
I also don't find people "hot". It had to be explained to me what it even meant.
We're built different, friend, and it's alright. Your joke was still funny :)
As a 9 years old child I ate 3 or 4 rosery peas. It was found in the bushes in front of my house and elder boys from the village used ti pick those to play with them. I thought they picked them to eat. I had upset stomach, I vomited and probably had loose motion too. But here I am learning, after 25 years now, that those seeds could have taken my life then.
🌸 I grew up in a country with the Manchineel tree, it’s normally remote & lots of warning signs. Sadly few locals have been harmed by just standing under it to try to shelter the rain. That was sadly before signs were placed to warn people of the dangers
brb making a toxic garden
@@adamfoda5559 probably dead.
I want to do that too 😂
just start growing them around your local parks and whatever for shits and gigs
He's going to make that garden, and after so much stress and health deterioration, he's takes a trip to Alnwick in the UK. And there he'll find that there was already a toxic garden, just next to Alnwick Castle.
😂
_"Nightshade causes every symptom possible..."_
__
Hell, I get a list of symptoms longer than that when I go out and party. :P
Other plants you may want to research are: castor plant where that white powder comes from. (I forget the name of the powder).
Angels trumpet: A large shrub with long white trumpet shaped flower.
Night shade plants including tomato and potatoe.
Green potatoes can make you sick if not kill you.
Strychnine tree which I believe grows in the Northern Territory of Australia.
I have been told it produces berries.
Queen Anne's Lace (wild carrots) are delicious, but are easily confused with Hemlock.
Here's a few ways to tell them apart so you can forage for carrots in peace.
-Hemlock stems have purple blotches.
-Carrot stems are visibly fuzzy, Hemlock stems are not.
...Actually, that's about it. Stay safe.
Thank you for the info!
Queen Anne's Lace (Docus carota) also has a small black dot in the center of the flower clusters.
@@WoodRabbitTaoist Only some of them do, in my experience. It's better to identify them based on stems because not all of them have dots.
I've heard that someone once committed suicide because they accidentally use a Manchineel tree's leaf for toilet paper while camping
;-;
Feedex Feldex its gympie gympie
If it was accidental then it wasn't suicide, was it?
no he'd lived if he didn't commit suicide, all the leaf did was cause pain
it was suicide, because he wanted to die, all the leaf did was make pain, it's like torture, only this time the victim had to choice to live or die, he didn't know the leaf was poisonous
- "Digitoxin as you know by its name is toxic to"
- "Fingers?"
- "humans."
- "Shit."
+AvengerXP Laughed way too hard
I thought it was Digimon
"This plant is sooo deadly the symptoms are just too numerous to even say!"
Lists 9 symptoms.
Nine is numerous.
Ten is *too* numerous!
Lmao.
I mean, I'm sure if you tried it you'd likely quickly figure out just how many symptoms are too many for you
The Manchineel Tree does the same as the "Shoemake Tree" that grows wildly abundant in the western NC mountain area. You can't touch it, get sap on skin, breathe in the smoke (if burned), or get stuck by it's long thorns. It is deadly....starts with shutting down kidneys, then multi-system organ failure. Agonizing death.
This video is like a shopping list for the deadliest salad ever. Remember kids, don't do salad!
+ZefVolk If I am in prison and get a last meal, I want it composed of all of these things. Then I died on my terms, not theirs.
@@GarrigKitten
Feed some of the plants to someone you don't like.
That way you'll have the pleasure of an enemy dead, and you get your favoured last meal.
Double bonus!
Solutions are easy.
Lol.
5:32 'Ribosome-inactivating Protein' if you read the first letters it literally says RIP XD. No wonder it is deadly...
yup Ribosome-inactivating Protein = rip
rip = rest in peace
Lmao
Hank Green: "Murder is bad."
Me: *Proceeds to watch this video.*
It's disturbing to know that I grew up with oleander and there are hundreds of them in my neighborhood and along the route that I run. I'm surprised that I haven't been poisoned yet. I used to play with the flowers when I was younger, every little kid in my neighborhood played with them. They were pretty and I didn't think much about it. :P glad I didn't try and munch on them
Why are you surprised you havent been poisoned yet if you say youve never eaten them? The only way 2 be poisoned by them is by eating the plant or using it as kindling 4 a fire and breathing in a decent amt of smoke (or eating a fair amt of food that was cooked over that fire) You have to eat a LOT of oleander to end up dead, thats why its NOT a popular murder poison. Simply touching or smelling it isn't gonna hurt you according to another video. That's why it's still a popular flower in gardens despite being potentially toxic.
@@bearsbeetsbattlestargalactica8 I’m surprised because as a kid I probably wasn’t very hygienic and probably mix it with my food. I was young the chances of me eating a few is pretty likely lmfao. Also my neighbors didn’t know and they liked to paint their nails with the flowers and bake them or just put it in tea. I run daily and I always see them picking the flowers. The amount of times I’ve eaten those cookies is also probably pretty high. I didn’t know until years later. I’m alright but not so sure about my neighbors.
nausea vomiting diarrhea....
YAY PEPTO-BISMOL!
the best 'fun' I had in years
Pikapetey Animations Yay DEATH and ALLERGIES!
Pikapetey Animations xD
Pikapetey Animations why do you pop up everywhere? X’D
I'm not sure if that's anything to say yay about.
Foxglove grows naturally wild about our land back home. Beautiful plant, we were of course told very young & often not to play with or taste it :P I've spent a good while painting & sketching them :)
I think aconite grew near by too. [basically we just didn't eat flowers unless we knew for sure one was good to eat, but Dad was in charge of the Food & Forestry Dept' so knew his stuff in that respect...]
Lilly of the valley is also quite deadly. The Strychnine tree is another. I would have listed these , before Dumbcane.
nux vomica plant.
Castor Bean.
Aconite has some lovely flowers. I got some plants at a greenhouse and they grew well, but always had skin irritation after weeding that flower bed. So sorry to lose that pretty, but decided it would have to go. A couple years later I was curious when mentioned in HP series so looked it up. Yikes, how could a nursery sell those plants?
Because they're also useful. Monkshood, when properly prepared, can help treat some medical problems. However, you need training to learn how to prepare it so that it won't poison you or anyone else. I believe it's also an antidote to some other poison, oddly enough.
I once found aconite flowers in the forest, while hiking. I took a few photos because it was unlike any other wildflower. When I used Google Lens to identify it, I was very surprised to find out it's poisonous. Luckily, I no longer pick wildflowers, just take photos
#2 is why my mom told ke not to go eat suspicous-looking small berries.
*me
+Hurricanefalcon128 Funny. My mom told me to go eat suspicious looking small berries.
+Brad Evans At least you had a mum...
+Andrew Bykar At least you had a Dad ...
+sanos999 at least you were produced by cel division.
"But why would anyone ever eat a houseplant like dumcane"
three words
Drunk College Students
The #dumbcane challenge 🤣
Or little toddlers
The gene pool has a mind of it's own and does self-cleans on a regular basis.
Or one word... *demetia.*
Repent , the kingdom of God is at hand , read your bible for yourself, and pray , there is nothing our there in the world ,ask God to guideguide and protect you ,if you have any question please ask me. ,
@@tinajsews2835 which god? Yaweh or the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Or Allah?
I had a friend in highschool tell me a story about how he ate Deadly Night Shade when he was ten years old,he was immediately taken to the hospital after eating just one berry.
i like the eye contact and your manner of information delivery.
It's easy to see why a plant would evolve poisonous leaves, but why would it need poisonous fruit? Wouldn't that mean there would be no animal to eat the fruit and spread the seeds? And why did the manchineel evolve to be pretty much entirely poisonous??
That is interesting. Maybe it was being terrorized by some fruit eater and evolved the toxins to survive. Maybe like a wood pecker or something. Not sure
I imagine a giant herbivorous dino, like a sauropod, eating it, getting the roaring shits, and the seeds would be in their dung and it would get widely dispersed. And if the animal didn't die, it would probably be smart enough to not eat it again. A sauropod herd could wipe out an entire forest in one day so being a poisonous tree would be very handy.
Some plants are poisonous to humans but not other animals. Poison ivy berries would cause swelling in the throat of a person who ate them but birds are immune and its an important fat source for them during migration. Other plants might use different ways to disperse, such as wind or water, so their toxicity is incidental.
Maybe the seed inside the animal would use the decomposing body as a fertilizer.
If the fruit is poisonous to humans, it means it is targeted for another type of animal.
I was near that manchineel tree when I went to galapagos. The local turtles were able to eat the fruits, which could've been very misleading to the first unfortunate colonists.
I only recently found out that deadly nightshade family also includes egg plant and potatoes to name a few and heard a story about a whole family that died from improperly storing their potatoes killing everyone except the youngest daughter never knew that some deadly plants have very closely related relatives that arent when handled right as well as being able to eat without harm when cooked right even though deadly nightshade doesnt care regardless
Yup, theyre all in the family Solanaceae! Thats every pepper, eggplant, potato, tomato, tomatillo, nightshade, and even tobacco! There are many types of nightshade as well, I have a type growing wild in my yard with very little solanine so I keep it for the gorgeous purple and yellow flowers it produces.
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The Manchineel Tree's motto: "To go down fighting"
No survivors!
Manchineel trees grow throughout the Southern Caribbean along the beaches, but usually they are labeled.
Dumb Cane is called that because the stalk resembles cane if you take off the leaves. My grandmother told me that in the old days if you were working (farm worker) the land and someone kept stealing your food and you wanted to know who it was you would purposely contaminate your lunch and the person who ended up w a swollen tongue and a bunch of blisters and couldn’t talk was the culprit hence the name Dumbcane.
Very good to know this! These were some I never heard of as being poisonous.
Always interesting, thank you.
if the oleander killed you not the snake would it be a cure?
+Abyssaljam
"Did he die of the snake bite?"
"No, he definitely died of oleander poisoning."
"....so it worked!"
hazzar
in deed it would
Kill or cure either way.
Another one that ought to be listed is Poison Ivy/Oak. Very common and usually causes little more than the familiar rash that lasts for about a week. But burning a fairly large quantity of it after clearing a wooded lot can be very dangerous, requiring hospital care.
My grandmother had this huge dumbcane/dieffenbachia. 4 yo me thought it was a beanstalk and, since I loved green beans, thought that biting the stalk would taste good.
The treatment was a bright red syrup, that (apparently?)
tasted foul as the nurse ended up wearing it.
I was a handful.
Thanks for the info. Good to know.
You show the plants only half a second before overwriting them with their names.
Better pictures and longer appearence would help a lot to recognise these plants.
Maybe share half of the screen with the plants, the other half would still be enough for Micheal to show up.
+Bonzolein Stachelschwein They probably want people to open a new tab and google to find more information. These videos tend to be short and give you the just basic information on any given topic.
Also, ever heard of pausing the video?
@@NeonV01D ever heard of content being more important than some douche bag with "frosted" hair reading a cue card?
My thought too, Thank you
Luckily, being a keen gardener, I'm already familiar with these and other plants/weapons in Mother Nature's arsenal.
She isn't as sweet as many believe and that gene pool needs constant cleaning. Lol.
Number # 7 Deadly Nightshade. When Michael stated that people can build up a tolerance, did anyone else immediately think of iocaine powder?
Buttercup: "And to think, all that time it was your cup that was poisoned!"
Man in black : "They were both poisoned. I've spent the last few years of my life building up an immunity to iocaine powder."
*"AHAH HAHHAHA HAAA HA-"*
Glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of that.
Great plant vid!! TFS😘✨👍🏾
These shows are Soo cool andtto the point. Keep em coming.
the books do mention that aconite is used in the draught of living death
A couple of the local trees around me are the Karaka: [Wiki] "poisoning would result with symptoms including violent convulsions and severe muscle spasms which could leave the limbs permanently fixed in contorted positions". When in season is often in the local news; killing dogs who eat the fruit. Another is the Tutu: [Wiki] "It acts as a potent antagonist of the glycine receptor,[1] and has powerful convulsant effects". According to the local natives it can easily kill if ingested.
Thank you for sharing us this important knowledge. I admire plants but sometimes I handle them carelessly that may put me in danger. Again, thank you for this content. New subscriber here.
Cool! Thanks for for sharing this
Re: Hemlock
"Generally if a modern patient can get on a ventilator, they'll be okay."
Just so you guys know, if can tell you from personal experience the whole ventilator bit is a lot worse than it sounds, I was on one for only nine hours and I wanted to die it was so uncomfortable. Not to mention whatever the hemlock would do to your body once you recovered.
Don't eat hemlock guys.
Instead of focusing on the narrator as much, you should have kept a picture up beside him - that way it will keep our attention and the appearance of these deadly plants would sink in.
No I actually think that'd be annoying
Exactly!!!
The whole purpose is to have you shying away, whilst screaming in a hysterical fashion, from *any* green plants, including vegetables and fruits, thereby causing you to get scurvy and rickets.
Your focus is the last thing they want.
It's a ploy dreamt up by big Pharma to sell you masses of suppliments at outrageously inflated prices.
Don't fall for their dastardly plan.
Get out there and start scoffing these delicious and highly beneficial plants!
Watch the video numerous time, memorising them and their names, then seek them out.
I’m a gardener and growing medicinal plants.i loved this video.learned alot thanks
Hi belladonna, keep it up
Thank you! Now I know what tree the Conan writer, R.E.Howard, referenced in Red Nails, where the fruit (the Apples of Derketa) is pure poison whether it’s eaten or the juice touches flesh.
"10 items that COULD kill you" - a gun - a rock - .... xD
Kuby Mobile Gaming do I smell a reptilian-army soldier??
+5iwot5 everything can kill you.
+5iwot5 a sword fish.... (sorry was watching csi before)
Dihydrogen Monoxide.
+wikiwikiwee and a teacup
Fox glove! Aw the times I have spent killing fox glove..... I was planting trees in a small 500 yard valley that was probably 500 yards across and 600 yards deep and there were all the wonderful beautiful colors of fox glove, pinks, whites, purples, oregon rain just makes em grow! I have so many beautiful pictures of the valley with baby trees littered with white purple and pink flowers. Foxy gloves
Thank u .this info is very helpful some of these plant I ve seen in Jamaica excellent warning
My neighbors kept dumbcanes 7 years ago, ever since i never visited again.
Dumbcane is very popular in Indonesia.
"When you look at a plant, you're probably not thinking that it's gonna kill you"
Well obviously. We were taught that they're the things that keep us alive
Cooked down and applied and dried to weapon edges and points, have made them more deadly for centuries.
In conservative amounts they've been used to stun fish and game.
Swings and roundabouts.
@@billyandrew are they really still plants anymore at that point though?
I think I have dumbcane in my house. It requires almost no light, no fertilizer, and is almost indestructible. Care consists solely of a glass of water every day, and occasionally rotating it. It's like easy mode for plants.
And then there’s angel’s trumpet, a horn-shaped flower that hangs upside down from a branch. Though they’re popular in gardens, you should only tend to them while wearing gloves. Their poison can be absorbed directly through your skin and send you to the hospital if it affects you
The pongpong and rosary pea (or "Saga Seeds" as we call them) are/were common here in Singapore, they grew near community eating areas and while we were warned as kids, never to eat them (pongpong fruit being the legendary notorious apple Eve gave to Adam haha) and Saga seeds poisonous despite their colour.. they were always around us. We'd even collected saga seeds as a hobby for some and made them into "five stones" - a local beanbag game we'd play. Some adults used to say (though you still should not do this) that if a person had accidentally swallowed the saga seed whole (without chewing), they'd still be OK and it'll come out the back way eventually.
If either Hank Green or this guy ever become incapacitated, they could easily do a voice-over for each other.
My exact thoughts.
Can the next episode be like this one, but with plants that are bad for your pets?
Garlic, onions, grapes(I think), chocolate, and wheat are bad for cats and/or dogs.
Xylitol (a sweetener found in some gum), and Ibuprofen. And yes, grapes and raisins
+Sereda Hawke that's food. I'm talking about common house plants that are bad for your pets
Oh, well then mostly it's just plants that are mildly toxic but common. Also, don't put Ricinus seed pods in ziploc bags within reach of your precocious kittens unless you want to be really really worried for about 36 hours.
Basically all of thesessssss.......Christmas trees, all other seasonal plants.....(like pointsettas and ferns...) still....wild onions...
I have an oleander shrub thats pretty huge in my backyard, once my little cousin was visitng and i found her picking the "pretty pink flowers" and putting them in her hair. I swear i had a heart attack in that moment.
I bit into the stalk of my grandmother's dumb cane when I was 5. I called it 'the beanstalk' and I loved green beans so I guess it made sense in my lil kindergarten brain.
The question is... Are you allowed to grow these plants?
+Neo Genesis Gaming Im pretty sure we have rosary pea bushes right in front of our yard o_o Im scared now...
Probably.
+Neo Genesis Gaming Yup. You can even have them in your front yard and get some children pretty sick. Although, that may cause a few lawsuits, so it's not reccomended.
Breaking bad anyone?
I have 14 oleander plants at my house. Extremely common.
This reminds us of how deadly the grass/poison type pokemon can be!
+The Humming Boy Nice try bulbasaur! we know it's you, now get out of here nobody likes you.
+The Humming Boy
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRD!
+The Humming Boy I blame Gloom, always blame Gloom
Bulbasaur meta
TY for sharing this important information 😮. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Unfortunately, foxglove sometimes grows within the fields of plantain (the weed not the banana). There was a very large recall in the 90’s because foxglove contaminated the plantain, which was processed into capsules as an herbal remedy. It was shipped to countries in Europe and the US and when people started suffering heart issues after taking plantain, collected samples found the capsules had detectably levels of digitalis.
Is this a new series? SciShow List show?! I'm okay with this!! MOAR!!
I want to make a smoothie out of all of these plants now…
Better not put any sugar in it, that stuff is bad for you. ;)
@@pietikke5598 LOL
great speaker! ..(.and rare) THANK YOU I really learned a lot!
My husband purchased monks hood and your #5 Wolf's Bane seeds. Planted it over a grave for a dog. Thank you!