Picture and Information requested - What is this plant?
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: Picture and Information requested - What is this plant?
- From: M* D* G*
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 04:32:07 -0700
The deaths of 2 adopted Russian boys who died after eating oleander
leaves in a neighbor's hedge underscores the importance of warning
employees and customers about oleander toxicity. Alexei Wiltsey, 2,
and his 3-year-old brother, Peter, were found dead in their cribs at their
El Segundo, Calif., home, L.A. Times reported. Laboratory tests
confirmed they died of oleander toxicity. The chemical oleandrian in
the popular landscape plant causes the heart to stop beating. The boys
mother said she found them chewing oleander leaves a few days before
they died and noticed they had picked some again the night of their
deaths.
Duncan
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