RE: OT: Iris Toxicity

it is from a list of plants, some of which have thorns.  follow the URL
provided to see the entire list.  It is all text, so it shouldn't take that
long to get up in your browser.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Clark [j*@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:40 AM
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: Iris Toxicity


>Dermatitis: Exposure to juice or sap from these plants or a puncture wound
>from the thorns may produce a skin rash or irritation. Skin wounds from
>some of these plants can be extremely painful causing large blisters and
>burning of the skin.

Steve are you sure this article is referring to irises? I tend towards
sensitive skin, so I am wondering which thorned irises are causing these
extremely painful skin wounds?
About the worst wound I have received is a poke in the eye by a leaf tip.
Cheers, Jan Clark
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