Beautiful But Very Dangerous

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

People's hope for "Beauty", created by nature to save the world, does not always justify itself. There is beauty, contact with which threatens disease, and even death. Having admired the neighbors' flower garden, do not rush to ask them for seeds or a cutting. Get to know the lovely stranger before making room for him on your lot

The world of plants is so diverse and beautiful that sometimes it dulls the vigilance of a person who admires a bright flower, juicy berry, ornamental leaves. It is then that trouble lies in wait for him, showing the other side of seductive beauty. This happens especially often with children who know the world not only with their eyes, ears, but also taste attractive strangers.

Poisonous flowers of Aconite

Plant

Aconite can be found not only in forests, mountains and meadows, which are not so often visited by most modern people, but also near settlements, where it attracts a person's eye with luxurious dissected leaves and irregular flowers with a large helmet on top. Apparently, the last detail gave the plant a different name -

Fighter

Aconite likes to be located near koshars or stables, where the soil is rich in moisture and fertilizers, although the plant is not particularly picky about the choice of soil, moisture is very important for a powerful plant. Well, where there are kennels and stables, there is always a person nearby, including children.

Moreover, recently Aconite has been gaining popularity as an ornamental plant, making its way into the flower beds of summer residents who have forgotten or unaware that not only bright flowers of the plant are dangerous to humans. From the tips of the roots to the numerous seeds nestled along the ventral seam of the leaflet fruit,

everything in the plant is saturated with poisons

From ancient times to the present day, buffalo and elephant hunters have used and continue to use the poisons of Aconite in their unseemly business. There were times when people sentenced to death by society were sent to another world with the help of plant poisons. As little as 10 grams of eaten roots lead to death. The seeds of the plant do not lag behind the roots in terms of toxicity. Even small doses can deprive a person of hearing and sight.

Useful and dangerous digitalis leaves

Very ornamental plant, Digitalis, having been born in the mountains, did the person a favor and descended from the heights into summer cottages, forgetting to warn about his poisonous qualities.

Today she is a fairly popular participant in mixborders, rabatoks, flower borders or independent curtains on a green lawn, decorating them with her graceful thimble flowers that appear in the second year of life. When the racemose-pyramidal large inflorescences of the plant appear, its lanceolate whole-edged leaves can no longer be confused with other leaves collected for salad dressing. But in the first year of Foxglove's life, summer residents

you should be extremely careful, so as not to spoil the meal with the poisonous leaves of the plant.

The flowers of the plant are also poisonous to humans. But on bumblebees, the only helpers for the procreation of the plant, the poison does not work. Therefore, they boldly follow the signs that the flower painted on its corolla in order to feast on nectar, and at the same time pollinate the reproductive organs of the Digitalis. Such a delightful mutually beneficial fellowship of plant and insect.

As has been noted more than once, in small doses, poison can act as a medicine. So it happened with the poison of Digitalis, whose Latin name sounds like Digitalis (Digitalis). The latter gave the name to the main physiologically active substance of the plant -

digitalina

In large doses, it is a substance that is deadly to humans and can stop the main human motor - the heart. In contrast, small doses are used by medicine to make the heart work harder and harder.