Re: Bignonia - caustic substance on leaves?
>Anyone heard of this?
>
>Yesterday I was threading a Tangerine Beauty Crossvine vine through an
>arbor. Something on the leaves and/or vine got on my fingers on both
>hands. It caused burning pain equivalent to someone smearing sulfuric
>acid on my fingers.
>Katherine Sullivan
According to "Poisonous Plants of the United States" (Macmillan),
contact dermatitis has been reported with both Campsis radicans and
Catalpa speciosa, two other members of the Bignoniaceae, so it is
not surprising that the Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) could cause
this in susceptible individuals.
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Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com
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