Poisoning flower

Daphne fortunei Lindl. D. genkwa Sieb. et Zucc. Yuan Hua (Fish poison) (flower) Genkwanin, yuanhuacine, apigenin, hydroxygenkwanin, yuanhuatine, yuanhuadine, genkwadaphnin, 12-benzoxydaphnetoxin.33-53-144-235 This herb is toxic. Induce abortion, treat chronic bronchitis, malaria, cutaneous infections. 

The poisonous nature of New Zealand honey is a result of tutin and hyenanchin (mellitoxin) toxins from the tutu shrub (tanner shrub plant, Cori-aria arbora). Poisonous flowers of tobacco, oleander, jasmine, henbane Datura me tel) and of hemlock (Conium maculatum) provide nonpoi-sonous honeys. The production of these honeys is negligible in Europe. 

There is a long history of the use of Aconitum, Delphinium and Consolida species as the source of poisons and medicinals [1]. These three genera in Ranunculaceae family yield diterpenoid and norditerpenoid alkaloids. The name Delphinium derived from dolphine-delphine due to the shape of their flower buds [2]. Aconitum has an evil reputation from the antiquity [3]. The plant was used as poison in old Greece, also in north-west Pacific the natives used it to poison the whales and also as arrow poison. In England in the ancient times the plant was used against wolves, boars, tigers as well as against rodents, and it was also a homicide material [4]. 

Infants and preschoolers are the most frequent victims of plant toxins. Their natural curiosity leads them to put all sorts of non-food items into their mouths, and berries, flowers, and leaves from house and yard plants are often attractive alternatives to spinach. The number of deaths from consumption of poisonous plants is not great, but the number of near-deaths is about 10% of inquiries to poison control centers concern ingestion of house, yard, and wild plants, including mushrooms. Among the house plants dumbcane (species of dieffenbachia) and philodendrons are prominent, and a fair number... 

Castanea crenuta Sieb. et Zucc. C. mollissima Blume Japan Su (Chestnut) (flower, stem bark) Quercetin, urea, protein, beta-carotene, riboflavin, thiamine, ascorbic acid, niacin.48-50 Treat diarrhea, poisoned wounds, lacquer poisoning, astringent. 

Coniine is a poison found in the spotted hemlock, Conium maculatum. This type of hemlock is found commonly throughout the United States and the world, including SLO County. White disperse flowers on a long purple stalk are routinely mistaken for its nontoxic look-alike - the edible wild parsnip. It was a hemlock brew which Socrates... 

Chemicals have been used to kill or control pests for centuries. The Chinese used arsenic to control insects, the early Romans used common salt to control weeds and sulfur to control insects. In the 1800s pyrethrin (i.e., compounds present in the flowers of the chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum cineraefolium) was found to have insecticidal properties. The roots of certain Derris plant species, (D. elliptica and Lonchocarpus spp.) were used by the Chinese and by South American natives as a fish poison. The active ingredient, rotenone, was isolated in 1895 and used for insect control. Another material... 

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