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Re: Cotoneaster/ Poisionous plants

>A cupful of apple seeds is poisonous - so silly.

Not necessarily silly at all. Many kinds of seeds in the Rose family
contain cyanides. When eat in large enough quantities, those seeds can (and
occasionally do) kill people.

>Do any ozies know if Fly agaric mushroom grows in Australia? ..... It is
>hardly a
>common plant in domestic gardens!!

Probably true. But that one is SO poisonous that a very little bit will do
you in. And it looks enough like certain very tasty, edible mushrooms to
warrant a warning. In the San Francisco area, several people die every year
from eating wild-picked mushrooms...usually a variety of agaric.

>...almost anything in excess is poisonous.

True, but for some things a very small amount constitutes too much.

Katherine

Katherine Pyle
Berkeley, California, USA
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