Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
Plants with toxic alkaloids - University of Washington
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Deadly Poisons<br />
Sandbox tree Hura crepitans: A member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Euphorbiaecea from the West Indies was used as an arrow<br />
poison by cannibalistic indians at the time <strong>of</strong> Columbus.<br />
The fruits explode <strong>with</strong> a loud bang and shatter poisonous<br />
seeds at a distance <strong>of</strong> up to 100 m dynamite tree<br />
Ratbane : Dichapetalum cymosum is flowering tree from<br />
west Africa. Several plants produce the same toxin Sodium<br />
fluoroacetate. This toxin is taste & odorless & some<br />
smart US boys in the 1940s tried to poison coyotes.<br />
However, the poison is not catabolized and poisons the<br />
whole foot chain the poison that keeps on killing. EPA<br />
banned Compound 1080 in 1972. US firms also supplied<br />
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.<br />
Larkspur Delphinium is a buttercup like monkshood<br />
Aconitum napellus . Like the neuro<strong>toxic</strong> alkaloid aconitin,<br />
larkspurs also contain a deadly alkaloid in their foliage.
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