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Eating Organic Food Is The Right Choice

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

Many people have been saying organic food as if it were some holistic word. Like “natural” a lot of people smirk and giggle as if these were some word that only hippies use. As a matter of fact, there is now a growing market for organic food and many groceries have been clearing out shelves stocking them with organic food.

Organic food has always been available; as a matter of fact again, organic food is what we used to have. It’s just the natural way of planting our food. What happened is that as more people have populated our planet and the demand for more food has dramatically increased farmers and food growers have searched for different ways to yield more produce at a faster rate. This is where pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals have come into the picture. 

And as more scientific discoveries have uncovered the damaging effects of these chemicals to our body, the more people are appreciating organic food. The fear of contracting cancer and other diseases have propelled the popularity of organic food and have branched from just fruits and vegetables to other types of food as well. 

Other organic foods that you will be able to purchase include prepared and baked goods, dairy products, andfruit juices. This is essential as fruit juices that are not organic usually have a significant amount of chemical traces as a number of fruits are needed to produce them. With organic fruit juices you can confidently have your fill of juice without the fear of inducing chemicals that may cause diseases. 

As a testament to this, there’s a growing demand by more people to organic food, more health food stores are now popping out and more grocery stores are devoting their shelves for organic food. The only setback for organic food is that they are a bit pricier than regular ones. But there is a good explanation for these.

Since organic food are harder to grow and organic farms don’t yield as much produce as regular farms, organic food farmers have to put a higher price on their products to get back their investments. Also, there are only a small number of farmers who have gone into organic farming so the demand is higher than the supply. But the small rise in cost is nothing compared to the many benefits your body will have. 

But with the concerns over diseases claiming many lives each year, and with the fear of the chemicals being spread on our food, surely more people will be leaning towards organic food. And with the rise in demand, there will be more farmers and farm space which will be devoted to growing organic food. This can help curb the high costs of organically grown food and be more affordable for everybody.

It’s high time that we take care of our body. We may be watching our diet, exercising for that perfectly chiseled physique, but if we continue to eat pesticide and fungicide laden foods, we are just doing harm to our insides without even knowing it. You may think that you are in the pink of health, then one day, you may just hear a devastating news that you have cancer.

Therefore, let’s not only take care of our outsides, but let us also keep our insides healthy. Eat organic foods! It’s the right choice!

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Growing Organic Fruit

June 3, 2011 By eenatura 1 Comment

Growing organic fruit in your garden has advantages over the fruit purchased in grocery stores. Organic fruit tastes better and you know that the fruit was not sprayed with any dangerous chemicals. The fruit that is planted in your garden was chosen by you because of its particular variety and you wanted to grow them organically.  

Many of the plants that you plant in your garden are annuals, producing flowers or fruit only once, all in the same year that they were planted. A vast majority of fruit trees will not produce any fruit until the third year or later after planting. Once they start producing fruit they will continue every year, some years better than others, for generations. Some organic dwarf fruit trees that are container grown will produce fruit 1 to 2 seasons ahead of the earth grown trees.

Even if your yard is a small one you can still grow a fruit tree.

Fruit trees produce blossoms in spring and it will enrich the soil around it. Your yard size determines the variety of fruit tree that is best for growing. Semi dwarf and dwarf fruit trees are best types for container growing. Fruit trees will not only need sunlight but they need protection from the wind. In order for fruit trees to bare fruit they need to be pollinated. Some of them are self-pollinating, some need pairs planted, and others must have three of a kind in order to be pollinated. Your local nursery will let you know which varieties are which

The soil preparation is the same as for any organic garden. You can enrich the soil with any store bought organic compost or you can use your own compost. When selecting organic gardening fruit trees always visit a nursery in order to examine it before purchasing. There will potted trees to choose from and also bare-root trees. Areas in the garden that have deep soil that is rich in organic nutrients and minerals are the best places for planting any organic fruit tree. Organic pear trees and organic apple trees prefer a soil that is slightly acidic which is found in the coastal areas of the United States; the stone varieties such as organic plum trees and organic cherry trees would rather have a mild alkalinity as in the inland soils. Poorly drained soils that are damp will not handle fruit bearing trees very well.   

A young tree that is potted will probably adapt faster to a new environment than a tree that has been potted for a long time. Once that young tree has adapted and is healthy it will most likely bare fruit quicker than an older one, even though it may take years to produce fruit. A bare-root tree is less expensive to purchase and is sturdier than the potted tree; planting either type works fine for organic growing.  

You can train a tree to grow into any shape or style. You can train it to grow diagonally along a fence, or just have it grow wild.  Young trees will need to be staked for support after they have been planted; this procedure will keep the stem sturdy and help it to grow straight.

Pruning your fruit tree helps to train it in the direction you wish to have it grow and will encourage it to produce fruit. If you do not like to prune, the least amount that should be done is to take off any branches that are crossing each other. To grow a fruit tree horizontally, use chicken wire along the fence and carefully tie the branches with garden tape to the wire. If you plant native plants and grasses around fruit trees you may be able to avoid harmful pests. The bees are an important part of pollination for your fruit trees; entice the bees by planting flowers or lavender bushes near the trees. The more insects your garden attracts a healthier production of fruit will be yours.

Barbara has planted dwarf fruit trees in containers along with in the ground. She has been enjoying oranges and mandarins for years and is now trying peaches. Come visit the website Gardeners Garden Supplies for more interesting tidbits on gardening.

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How to Grow Organic Foods in Your Back Yard

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

Sometimes, you have to develop a sense of independence and just grow your own…at least to some extent.

What’s Wrong With Our Food Processing Today ?

All of us want to feed our families the best foods that money can buy, but sometimes money just is not good enough to buy the best. The price we pay at the supermarket does not necessarily tell us that it has not gone through any irradiation process that is supposed to prevent the spread of disease from salmonella or other bacterial growth. Irradiation does not necessarily totally eradicate its growth, but what it does do is deplete most of the nutrients from the vegetables, fruits, etc., so that they only contain about what is found in canning our vegetables, or what is found on store and supermarket shelves. Irradiated foods, we are told by expert nutritionists lose as much as 80 % of their vitamin contents, which we are told include A, C, E, K and much of the B complex groups. Irradiation also creates free radicals of which the depleted vitamins are supposed to protect us from by neutralizing them.

How Can We Avoid The Nutrient Losses ?

For those of us who have even some small available space in our back yard and even if we rent, sometimes the landlord will give its tenants permission to use a small area to grow a few vegetables. It is certainly a little more difficult for the apartment dweller to grow their own vegetables, especially organic, but, with perseverance and a little luck, it can be done. For the home owner, one must first find an area for the compost bin, where all of the organic refuse, such as grass clippings and shrub clippings are stored. The “bin” can only be a 3x3x3 wooden box, sturdy enough to hold a few hundred pounds of organic material, mixed with some sod. The soil can be purchased at a local department store garden center, on sale in the spring for $ 3-4 for a 40 lb. bag. This is a pretty small investment considering the future return on investment. All refuse such as grass clippings should be layered with the purchased garden soil, only using a quart or two at the time. Of course if you have leaf piles in your back yard, this is perfect to mix in. The compost bin should be watered on a regular basis, unless you get some pretty good rainfall periods. Now, choose a small patch of land area for the garden itself. Even a 4×8 foot plot will do for a start. This can be increased in increments of a foot or two in both length and width as time goes on, or each early spring. To start, just purchase small tomato or pepper plants from your department store garden center and layout the garden on a small sheet of paper. The first thing is to turn over the soil with a spade shovel, or you can dig small individual holes accommodating each plant. Of course, actual planting should only be done after the last frost in your area. Each plant must receive ample watering during initial plantings.

What Are The True Benefits That You Have Accomplished ?

One, of course is independence and the other is that you know that all the vegetables you pick from your little garden will be totally devoid of any commercial processing and thus will contain all of the vitamins and minerals needed to feed you and your family. You will obviously not be able to pick your harvest every day of the year as can be done at your local produce store, but those you are able to pick during harvest time will more than make up for the wait. If you live in the south, you might be able to harvest year round. It will be a lot of labor, but it will certainly be worth all of your time.

 

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Growing A Healthy Rose Garden

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

Roses are one of the most beautiful and sought after flowers to grow in a garden. They offer the benefits of gorgeous and mostly resistant blooms.

However, getting them to grow without experiencing any problems like disease and pests can be difficult if you are inexperienced. The process just takes trial and error, and your collection of roses may look and grow differently, depending upon the climate that you live in.

Choosing the right species for your area and the amount of care you are able to offer will make all the difference. First off, when you are planting, you may also want to add some other types of foliage or bushes to the mix.

Often, part of the problem with trying to nurture a rose garden is having a plot that is strictly devoted to the flower. Adding other types in may prevent diseases and other situations from occurring.

Make sure that you choose those that are compatible with the foliage but do not compete with it; you will most likely want the flower to be the star of the show. If you are unaware of other variations that could be added into the plot to give it more color and texture, ask assistance from a professional at a nursery or ask help of those that you know who are more experienced with this type of growing.

The success of your nursery depends on the type or species of rose that you choose. Some are more resistant to environmental factors than others, so making the right decision for your climate is essential to their health and success.

Humid regions will almost always be prone to mildew; you will need to research and purchase the type of flower that will not be affected by moist air. One can also prevent issues with mildew by practicing efficient garden sanitation.

When you water, only direct it at the roots; if you place it on the actual flower and leaves, there may be too much moisture for the plant to handle. It is best to do your watering first thing in the morning, so that the water and moisture has time to dissipate throughout the warmth of the day.

There are other sprays and treatments that can be used on soil before and after the growing season to lessen the likelihood of one experiencing Black Spot or mildew. Lime sulfur or potassium bicarbonate are probably the best options, and can usually be found at most nurseries or gardening centers.

To prevent diseases in the soil and ground from having the ability to splash up onto the plant during waterings place mulch at the base. That way, any illness should be unable to reach the leaves and, therefore, unable to affect your blossoms.

When it comes to pests, they choose to pick on the weakest and least healthy of plants first. If you keep yours healthy in the first place, there is less of a likelihood that critters will snack on your beloved foliage.

Aphids prefer a great deal of tender new growths so do not overdo it on fertilizer. Try to give each bush ample time, and do not try to plant and germinate a huge group at one time.

Prune when necessary, but make sure to stop doing so around six weeks before they may experience frost. This way, new growth will have less of a chance of being affected by freezing temperatures.

Not all insects will be bad for your nursery plot; there are some that actually eat the pests and aid your plants in being healthy. Just spraying insecticides randomly can actually do a lot of harm to the soil and greenery; it is also pointless, because aphids are constantly being gestated and born.

Lady beetles, mites, parasitic wasps, and Green Lacewigs all feed on aphids, mites, eggs, and caterpillars. Allowing them to live in your garden may actually be the saving factor when it comes to damage that is done by parasitic insects.

When plants do shed leaves and other debris, make sure to clean it up right away. The longer you leave the bits on the ground, the more likely they are to experience molding and mildewing and possibly affect the soil and plants.

They also attract bugs that will want to eat your greenery. Following these tips will help your rose garden to stay beautiful and last; get gardening!

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Tips For Healthy Garden Soil

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

A healthy garden grows from healthy soil. When the soil in your garden is healthy, your plants are most resistant to disease. Their roots can reach into the soil to extract water and nutrients, making these plants more vigorous. If you want to create healthy garden soil, you need to find a way to improve the conditions in the garden. Often, garden soil is poorly drained, compacted, and low on nutrients. It may also have a pH that is out of the neutral to slightly acidic soil pH that most plants love.

Identifying Common Soil Problems

Is your soil tough? If you find that water pools on the top of your soil and does not drain into it, you may have soil that is far too tough – compacted soil. You may also have poor drainage, which can be caused by an excess of clay in your soil.

If your plants seem to have stunted growth and will not flourish, even if your soil seems to be well-drained, you may have trouble with soil pH and nutrients.

Check out your soil pH using a home test kit. While vegetables can be happy in soil that is slightly acidic, try to avoid very acidic soils under a pH of 5.5 or alkaline soils above 8. Plants thrive in the center and prefer not to grow in extremes.

Soil nutrient levels may also be the reason behind poor plant growth. While you may fertilize with natural or artificial fertilizers, these fertilizers often include nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium but no trace minerals. Trace minerals are also essential to plant growth and can make the difference between an insipid-looking garden and a stunning one.

Compost Can Help Solve Common Soil Problems

While composting isn’t the answer to every garden question, it is certainly the answer to many of them! Compost is an excellent soil amendment.

The light compost can be mixed with garden soil to improve the soil structure and drainage using light, organic-rich natural materials. For gardens with pooling water, this helps the water drain. Compost also acts as an erosion control when used as a top-dressing, preserving soil nutrients.

Gardens with a poor pH and lack of soil nutrients will also benefit from an infusion of compost, which is full of soil microbes that make soil nutrients more available to plants. It tends to be an ideal pH for most gardens and can shift the soil pH balance in a more favorable direction. Compost is also full of trace minerals and the essential big three fertilizer elements for the garden.

Adding compost to a garden bed is one of the most valuable things that you can do as a gardener. Compost acts as a soil amendment and a fertilizer. It creates gardens that are more resilient to disease. If your garden looks like it needs healthier soil, begin by adding compost to the garden beds.

Lars Handley is a master composter based in Dallas, Texas. Want to learn more? Visit his Composting site to learn every aspect of making compost. Don’t miss the Composting Q&A page where you can ask a question and get a personal response.

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How to Eat Healthy at Olive Garden Restaurant

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

Italian food is the ultimate comfort food and the Olive Garden does a delightful job of preparing mouthwatering bowls of pasta for hungry diners. It’s hard to not feel good when you’re devouring a fragrant bowl of their freshly prepared pasta. Unfortunately, the calories, carbohydrate and fat content of these foods can be enough to spoil your good mood, as well as your appetite. Thankfully, it’s possible to eat healthy at Olive Garden Restaurant if you’re creative about how and what you choose to order.

Your first challenge when dining at Olive Garden is to learn to make your pasta selection carefully or choose a menu item that has no pasta. If you opt for the pasta route, your best choices would be:

Shrimp primavera with 708 calories and 10 grams of fat

Linguine ala Marinara with 551 calories and 8 grams of fat

Capellini Pomodoro with 644 calories and 14 grams of fat

You can also ask for a grilled chicken breast with a side of sautéed vegetables for a heart healthy, low fat, low carbohydrate meal. When you eat this meal along with the unlimited salad, you can enjoy the Italian atmosphere without all the guilt.

If you’re even more disciplined, you can forgo pasta completely and go with the unlimited salad and soup. Be sure to ask for the salad dressing on the side so you can control the portions. Also, it may be best to hold off on the bread sticks. A few of these empty calorie sticks can blow your diet for the day.

Fortunately, Olive Garden offers some relatively healthy and delicious tasting soups. The minestrone soup is a particularly healthy option with its sweet fragrance of roasted tomato and its heart healthy lycopenes. As a substitute for the almost ubiquitous pasta, you can ask for a side of steamed vegetables with just a touch of butter added for flavor.

You may want to resist the temptation to indulge in one of Olive Garden’s Italian deserts. They don’t list the calorie content on their website but from all appearances they aren’t exactly diet food. A better choice would be one of Olive Garden’s cappuccinos served prepared with skim milk. This makes a satisfying finale to a delicious and healthy Italian meal.

Who says you can’t eat healthy at Olive Garden restaurant? By making the right selections an Italian dinner at Olive Garden can be an evening to remember.

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Gardening Tips: From Start to Finish

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

If you are looking to save a few extra bucks at the grocery store and have some fun at the same time, then I can think of no better activity than planting a vegetable garden.  It might seem on the surface like a lot of work, but with some of the techniques and tips I am about to give you, you will have no problems, or at least keep them to a minimum.

Gardening is a great activity, especially if you have kids and get them involved.  Some of the special moments I had with my own father came when he was teaching me how to plant and nurture his own vegetable garden.  Now with children of my own I plan on doing the same. 

There is also a lot bending and moving with gardening so you will get some exercise, just don’t plan on it being enough to compete in the Olympics though.

My first tip is to start your garden indoors.  If you have a room with some windows where the sub hits first thing in the morning than that is the perfect area.  You can start your plants in a variety of ways but I found what works best is buying one of those miniature green houses from Home Depot or Lowes and starting them that way.  These miniature greenhouses range in price depending on size, from .99 to .00.  They are really more like plastic trays with a clear plastic top.  They come with rock hard pellets made from a variety of soils that when you add water they expand to create a great starting environment for your seeds.

It’s best, as I found the hard way, to not start your plants too early indoors.  You want to time it just right so that when the plants are ready indoors to be moved, you can take them directly to your garden.

Here in New Jersey, I start in indoors on April 1st, so that by May 1st, I am ready to go.  I tried starting earlier one year, and halfway through the month of April it snowed and wiped me out.  Now I wait out April and have never had any problems since.

Once I have moved my indoor plants to the outdoors I then put down my weed barrier made from wet newspaper, because lets face it, I hate weeding, and if you don’t do this step you will be doing plenty of it.  Simply take two pages of your newspaper and lay them down, making sure you overlap the edges until your garden is covered.  Just make sure you don’t cover up your plants.

I am also very fortunate that in my area our township has a recycle center where you can pick up leaf mulch absolutely free.  I grab a few buckets and lay it over top of my newspaper weed barrier and I am done, and the garden looks great.  If you do not have access to leaf mulch as I do, you can always buy some from a local nursery, or you could just mow your lawn and throw the grass clippings on top. 

Putting the mulch on afterwards will allow for better water drainage, it will keep the soil underneath a lot cooler and as the mulch and newspaper biodegrades it will add nutrients to your soil.

Once the garden season comes to an end, and the plants have stopped producing vegetables and fruit, do not throw them away.  Start your own compost pile.  Although it goes beyond the scope of this article, in essence a compost pile is where you add leaves, grass and other biodegradable material, turn it over every so often and when it’s done, you have great compost that you can use the following year for your top layer above your newspaper weed barrier.

One final note that I want to get across that I can’t stress enough and that is to compost your food waste.  What this means is, instead of throwing away leftovers or uneaten food, dig a hole about a foot to two feet deep and bury it.  Worms and other earthly creatures will find it and eat and their castings create compost that far outweighs the benefits of any chemical fertilizer.   Do not, however, add food waste to your compost pile explained in the previous paragraph.  It will create a fowl smell and I don’t think your neighbors will appreciate that.

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Best Ever Gardening Tips

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

1. Start with a Master Plan.

Before you invest in anything, the first step is to draft a blueprint to optimize your outdoor space and keep the garden in balance. Choose the flowers according to shape, size and color and splatter your garden pallet according to your exact specifications. In addition to planting your buds, be sure to allow some space for garden statuary, solar lighting, pathway stones and any other ornamental pieces to complete your garden collection. If you are wanting a vegetable garden, make sure you know the best planting times to start your seeds or plant your seedlings. The master plan approach will save you time, money and ensure that you get the results you want.

2. Test Your Soil.
Learning as much as you can about your soil will help you decide what needs to be done to make it ideal for the plants you want to grow. If you can learn about your soils texture, composition, drainage, acidity, and mineral density, you will avoid, up front, the disappointing results that can occur when your soil is unsuitable for your dream garden. Clay is nutrient rich, but slow draining. Sand is quick draining, but has trouble retaining nutrients and moisture. Loam is generally considered to be ideal soil because it retains moisture and nutrients but doesnt stay soggy.
To determine your soil type, take a handful of moist (but not wet) soil from your garden, and give it a firm squeeze. Then, open your hand. One of three things will happen:
1.It will hold its shape, and when you give it a light poke, it crumbles. Lucky youthis means you have luxurious loam!
2.It will hold its shape, and, when poked, sits stubbornly in your hand. This means you have clay soil.
3.It will fall apart as soon as you open your hand. This means you have sandy soil.
Now that you know what type of soil you have, you can work on improving it.

3. Be Patient.

Rome wasnt built in a day, and neither will be your perfect garden paradise. Half the fun of growing a garden is the journey getting there, so take your time and enjoy every session. The garden experience can be a lifelong endeavor, even down to the treasures and trinkets you add to the mix. Think of gardening like a science project. Sometimes you will experiment and have failures as well as successes. You will have things turn out better than you expect times you will wonder why something doesn’t do what you anticipate. The key is to learn from your trials and errors so your gardening skills will evolve along with you. So, rather than making your gardening purchases all at once, let life take its course as you find each special touch here and there at a rummage sale or discount outlets in different regions. Don’t try to do it all in one day. Let your garden grow to full bloom over time. www.gardendistributor.com

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Vegetable Gardening Tips

June 3, 2011 By eenatura Leave a Comment

Vegetable Gardening Tips

With the costs of living rising all the time, it may be possible to save money and increase your family’s health at the same time by growing vegetables in your backyard.

It’s a good idea to choose your favourite vegetables to grow and plan beds for early, middle of the season and late varieties.

Most vegetables require at least 6 hours of sunlight per day, some need 8. Some quick growers like lettuce and radish can be grown between the rows of plants that take longer to mature, like beet or corn, thus making full use of the area available.

Throughout dry periods, vegetable gardens need extra watering. Most vegetables benefit from an inch or more of water each week, especially when they are fruiting.

During the growing season watch for insect pests. If you discover a bug problem early it will be much easier, but be careful to not use pesticides once the vegetable are close to being picked unless it becomes an absolute necessity. Organic gardening is one healthy and environment-friendly option. Once you have reaped your crop, put the vegetable waste into your compost pile so that it can be recycled for next spring.

It is important to protect your vegetable garden from wild animals looking for a tasty treat. Make sure your garden is surrounded by a fence that will keep out dogs, rabbits, and other animals. The harm done by wandering animals during one season can equal the cost of a fence. A fence also can serve as a frame for peas, beans, tomatoes, and other crops that need support.

Protection is needed in order for your vegetable garden to yield a bountiful harvest. Hard work will pay dividends if necessary precautions have been made.

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Dangerous & Deadly Plants on the Planet

June 3, 2011 By eenatura 4 Comments

Dangerous & Deadly Plants on the Planet

By: nobert bermosa

There are numerous species of plants that are poisonous and can be deadly to humans and animals. Here’s a list of the most dangerous plants in the world.

1. False Helleborine (Veratrum album )

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The root of this plant with elegant flowers is very poisonous. It has a paralyzing effect on the nervous system. In two cases of fatal poisoning from eating the seeds, the toxins veratridine and cevadine were present in the blood at 0.17-0.40 nanograms/milliliter and 0.32-0.48 nanograms/milliliter, respectively. In 1983 sneezing powders produced from the herb in Germany were reported to have caused severe intoxications in Scandinavia. False Helleborine, a native to Europe, is also known as White Hellebore, European White Hellebore, and White Veratrum. Although this plant is poisonous, it is also considered a medicinal plant.

2. Anthora (Aconitum anthor)

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Anthora is a plant that is extremely toxic to livestock and humans. Even small doses can be deadly. Foliage and stems contain diterpenoid alkaloids. Anthora, variously known as Yellow Monkshood, or Healing Wolfsbane, is a yellow flowering plant species of the genus Aconitum. It is endemic to European Mountains and Asia.

3. Indian Poke (Veratrum viride)

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Indian poke is native to North America and it is extremely toxic. It is considered a pest plant by farmers with livestock. The species has acquired a large number of common names within its native range, including American False Hellebore, American White Hellebore, Bear Corn, Big Hellebore, Corn Lily, Devils Bite, Duck Retten, Indian Hellebore, Itch-weed, Itchweed, Poor Annie, and Tickleweed. The plant is highly toxic, causing nausea and vomiting. If the poison is not evacuated, cold sweat and vertigo appears, respiration slows, cardiac rhythm and blood pressure falls, eventually leading to death.

4. Lice-Bane ( Delphinium staphisagria )


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Lice-Bane, a perennial plant, is also known as Stavesacre. All parts of this plant are highly toxic and should not be ingested in any quantity. The plant has purple flowers, May to August.

5. Death Camas (Zigadenus venenosus)

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All parts of this plant with lovely flowers called the Death Camas are poisonous. It is dangerous for humans as well as livestock, though some poisoned by it have been treated. Alkaloids are responsible for the plants being poisonous. Fish or beef broth, grease, or butter are said to be the antidotes.

The bulbs of Death Camas are oval and look like onions but does not smell like onions. Death camas occurs in some parts of western North America and can be easily confused with edible onions of genus Allium. They tend to grow in dry meadows and on dry hillsides as well as sagebrush slopes and mountain forests.

6. American Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

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American Pokeweed is also known as American nightshade, cancer jalap, oakum, garget, inkberry, pigeon berry, pecan bush, poke root, pokeweed, redweed, scoke, red ink plant and chui xu shang lu, parts of this plant are highly toxic to livestock and humans..

The fruits of American Pokeweed look edible too like the Jerusalem cherry that’s why Pokeweed poisonings are common. Although the fruits are toxic to humans, they’re not to birds. The toxic components of the plant are saponins. Deaths are currently uncommon, although there are cases of emesis and catharsis, but at least one death of a child who consumed crushed seeds in a juice has occurred.

7. Mountain Death camas (Zigadenus elegans)

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This pretty flower of Mountain Death Camas is extremely poisonous. It is also known as Elegant Camas, a flowering plant that has white lily-like flowers and two-pronged, greenish-yellow glands on each petal. Distribution is throughout North America and occurs in many habitats.

8. Western Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa)

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Western Bleeding Heart is a flowering plant generally found in moist wooded areas from California to British Columbia. Herbologists have claimed that there are uses for Dicentra formosa in relieving sharp pains that are difficult to bear, such as toothaches. However it is recommended to be used in a drop dosage, if used at all, because if used improperly it can be harmful and possibly fatal.

9. Indian Aconite (Aconitum ferox)

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Indian Aconites supply the Indian (Nepal) poison called bikh, bish, or nabee. It contains large quantities of the alkaloid pseudaconitine, which is a deadly poison. Aconite was often used as an ingredient in the psychoactive drugs prepared by the descendants of Hecate (the Greek goddess of sorcery and witchcraft). It was also used in European witchcraft ointments.

10. Purple Nightshade (Solanum xanti)

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Purple Nightshade is a plant that is poisonous to humans. It is native to California, it can now be found in most of North America. Purple Nightshade has been observed climbing higher on fences, shrubs and saplings, sometimes choking or blocking sunlight thereby killing off the host plant.

11. Apple of Sodom (Solanum mammosum)

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Apple of Sodom is also known as nipplefruit, titty fruit, or Cow’s Udder. It is a close relative of the tomato. The poisonous fruit is native to South America, but has been naturalized in the Greater Antilles, Central America and Caribbean.

The fruit is grown for ornamental purposes, in part because of its resemblance to a human breast. It is reputed to have medicinal use in various treatments, from athlete’s foot to irritability and restlessness, and is sometimes used as a detergent. It is imported to Taiwan for use as a religious offering.

12. Hound’s Berry (Solanum nigrum)

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Hound’s Berry is native to Eurasia and introduced in the Americas and Australia. The green berries and mature leaves contain glycoalkaloids and are poisonous to eat raw. Their toxicity varies and there are some strains which have edible berries when fully ripe. Although fatal human poisonings are rare, at least one case has been documented. The poison is believed to be solanine. Hound’s Berry is known commonly with the ff names; Black Nightshade, Duscle, Garden Nightshade, Petty Morel, Small-fruited black nightshade, popolo, Sunberry, or Wonderberry.

13. Little Larkspur (Delphinium bicolor )

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Little Larkspur plant is poisonous to cattle and to sheep. It is a species of larkspur also known as low larkspur. This plant is native to northwestern North America. It grows in mountain forests and foothill scrub and prairie.

14. Conker Tree (Aesculus hippocastanum )

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All parts of this lovely-looking plant called Conker Tree are poisonous, causing nausea, muscle twitches, and sometimes paralysis. The nuts, especially those that are young and fresh, are slightly poisonous, containing alkaloid saponins and glucosides. Although not dangerous to touch, they cause sickness when eaten. Conker Tree is also commonly known as Horse-chestnut. This plant is native to the Balkan Peninsula. It is widely cultivated throughout the temperate world.

15. California Corn Lily (Veratrum californicum)

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California Corn lily is a poisonous plant native to mountain meadows in southwestern North america and the Rocky Mountains. This plant is a source of jervine and cyclopamine, teratogens which can cause birth defects such as holoprosencephaly and cyclopia in animals that graze upon it.

16. Mandrake (Mandragora officinarum)


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All parts of the mandrake plant are poisonous. The plant grows natively in southern and central Europe and in lands around the Mediterranean Sea, as well as on Corsica Mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures. Their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism.

17. Poison Ryegrass (Lolium temulentum)

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The seeds and seed heads of this common garden weed contain the alkaloids temuline and loliine. Some experts also point to the fungus ergot or fungi of the genus endoconidium, both of which grow on the seed heads of rye grasses, as an additional source of toxicity. Poison Ryegrass is also commonly known as Darnel or Cockle and grows plentifully in Syria and Israel.

18. Trailing Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara)

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The fruit of Trailing Bittersweet is poisonous to humans and livestock but edible for birds, which disperse the seeds widely. Like other Solanum species, the foliage is also poisonous to humans. Although fatal human poisonings are rare, several cases have been documented. The poison is believed to be solanine. Trailing Bittersweet is also known commonly as bittersweet, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, climbing nightshade, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, trailing nightshade, violet bloom or, woody nightshade. It is native to Europe and Asia.

19. Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)


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Dutchman’s Breech is a flowering plant that occurs mainly in the eastern half of the North American continent. It typically grows in rich woods. The common name Dutchman’s breeches derives from their white flowers that look like white Breeches. This plant may be toxic and may cause contact dermatitis in some people.

20. Nelson’s Horsenettle (Solanum nelsonii)

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Nelson’s Horsenettle is an annual to perennial plant of the nightshade genus. The poisonous plant is native to the Pacific islands.  It grows low to the ground in sandy soil.

21. Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)


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Black Locust is native to the southeastern US, but has been widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe and Asia. Unlike the pods of the honey locust, but like those of the related European Laburnum, the black locust’s pods are toxic. In fact, every part of the tree, especially the bark, is considered toxic, with the exception of the flowers. However, various reports have suggested that the seeds and the young pods of the black locust can be edible when cooked, since the poisons that are contained in this plant are decomposed by heat. Horses that consume the plant show signs of anorexia, depression, diarrhea, colic, weakness, and cardiac arrhythmia. Symptoms usually occur about 1 hour following consumption, and immediate veterinary attention is required.

See more deadly plants on these sites:

20 Deadliest Plants on the Planet

10 Deadliest Plants on the Planet 2

Amazingly Beautiful But Poisonous Ornamental Plants

Written by nobertbermosa
I am a Secondary School Head Teacher III and currently enrolled for my doctorate degree at Araullo University. I also contribute to Triond and Factoid

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