WILD FLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN OUT WHILE OUT WALKING - 2017

Good morning on our walk this morning

 

Hi @Zigs is the second photo what they call Arum

 

Thank you my good friend is it at all poisonous

 

Oh so it won't kill you then just make you stiff

 

Well yes it is Woo, but you have to eat the berries and the berries are are very very sour and an instant irritant to the mouth so I don't think anyone would actually eat them more like spit them out.!

 

Thanks @Marley Farley my friend I shall have to watch penny then as she almost eats anything

 

Well hopefully she will leave them alone because of their colour when ripe. I think though that if she did get a berry even she would spit it out straight away.. Keep an eye out for them before she sees them..

 

"How Poisonous, How Harmful?


Arum maculatum, cuckoopint, berries

Though long believed to contain saponins given the names aronin(e) and aoin(e), work in 1965 found only the oxalates found in Arum italicum. These needle-shaped crystals can irritate the skin, mouth, tongue, and throat, resulting in throat swelling, breathing difficulties, burning pain, and stomach upset.

The orange berries are quite attractive but their acrid taste and the tingling in the mouth which begins quite quickly, mean that large amounts are rarely ingested and serious harm is unusual.

The plant is said to be one of the most common causes of accidental plant poisoning based on attendance at hospital A & E departments though this may be because the irritation of the tongue and mouth is more likely to result in hospital attendance than a simple stomach upset from, say, eating a daffodil bulb thinking it to be an onion.

A study in Switzerland found only one incident, in 29 years, where Arum maculatum produced 'serious' poisoning."