Belladonna

                                                         Belladonna-dangerous plants

Can a plant with such a poetic name to be dangerous to humans? And how! "Lovely lady" - as translated from Italian belladonna. Belladonna -dangerous plants . Its fruits - shiny black, sometimes yellow berries with many seeds, engorged sweetish taste dark purple nectar, but it is not worth tasting.
The juice of this plant is traditionally Italian women instilled in the eye pupils due to the content of atropine in belladonna expanded, acquiring unnatural but attractive sheen. And the berries are used as a dye to create a blush on the cheeks.
  Same atropine when used inside the plant could cause great excitement, up to rabies. But this is not the most important symptom. After 20 minutes, after tasting the fruits or leaves of belladonna in the mouth comes the dryness and burning, difficult swallowing and breathing, heartbeat quickens, further appears vomiting, upset stool and urination.
A person can also be poisoned honey, which includes pollen "belladonna" Moreover, the toxic effect is manifested even by touching this plant. Suffering from belladonna devouring her livestock, but rabbits regale her with absolutely no ill effects.

                               Conium maculatum (lat. Conium maculatum) -dangerous plants

From him not just a headache - in the justice system of Ancient Greece hemlock poison used as an official, and only since the time of Hippocrates, he became a drug.
All parts of the plant are poisonous equally, and therefore it is recommended to collect with particular caution. Wash hands with soap and water - the best prevention against its toxic properties. The finished material should always be stored separately from other medicinal herbs.
In Russia, this weed grows everywhere - from forest edges to gardens. From its hollow stalk children sometimes make whistles, which is extremely dangerous. However, the unpleasant "mouse" odor of hemlock often deters them from this lesson.

                               Milestones poisonous (lat. Cicuta virosa) dangerous plants

The name of this plant speaks for itself. It is found everywhere, especially near water. The main danger - a club with a deceptively pleasant smell either carrots, or celery.
The main ingredient is a milestone Cicutoxin which in small doses has sedative effects, and lowers blood pressure - no wonder it is used in pharmacology. In folk medicine, a tincture made a milestone that has a number of useful properties: it helps with migraines, gout, rheumatism, tachycardia.
However, an overdose of drugs, based on a pole, is fraught with serious consequences - very quickly a headache, chills, nausea, vomiting, pain in the stomach, cramps, excessive salivation, and if time does not wash out the stomach may occur in death.
Because of its toxicity milestones are also used as an insecticide to fight garden pests - caterpillars and insects. Not only. According to some sources of poison made from this plant, was poisoned Socrates.

Belem (lat. Hyoscýamus) dangerous plants

We often hear popular expression: "What are you, henbane stuffed?". So say the person behaving inappropriately. More Avicenna wrote that "henbane - the poison that causes insanity, depriving memory and causes suffocation and diabolism."
Belem very undemanding plant - it is chosen a wasteland, yards, gardens and roadsides, much of it where a person lives. The plant has a very unpleasant odor, at least animals susceptible thereto and bypass henbane side.
In the Middle Ages there were such a stratagem. Retreating army to leave the enemy a wine stock, pre-Laced there henbane. The enemy, of course, could not take advantage of this gift and drank the poisoned wine. Later, the soldiers returned to their possessions and cut out dopey enemies.
A toxic henbane all - root, stem, flowers, but especially the seeds. First of all, the danger may be exposed children who take these seeds for edible.

Daphne (lat. Dáphne) dangerous plants

As a child many of us warned against eating such attractive in appearance Wolfberry, and for good reason - 5 berries can be a lethal dose for a child, and 12 quietly sent to the light and the adult. But even if we do not overdo it with the dose, the poison daphne can cause redness and blisters, as well as kidney and stomach.
In the spring of "wolf" is decorated with delicate flower bush - pink, cream and purple shades, but their beauty is deceptive - the pollen of flowers may cause dizziness and headache.
Curiously, in Nepal from daphne make high-quality paper, and we use it for landscaping. Daphne is listed in the Red Book: plants carrying the danger to people itself is on the verge of extinction.

Wrestler or aconite (lat. Acónítum)-dangerous plants

The name "aconite" associated with the labors of Hercules in which he freed the three-headed Cerberus from the underworld. When the hero brought hell hound the light of day, the beast filled poisonous saliva grass - and there grew tall, slender plants. It happened near the town of aconite.
In  there are more than 60 species of aconite, and it is actively used in folk medicine. On the preparation of drugs is all but the root - so it is poisonous! Children are often attracted to beautiful flower aconite, which they try to taste - a burning pain and numbness of the mouth may occur within a few minutes.
About the poisonous properties of fighter are the facts: Germanic peoples rubbed them arrowheads for hunting wolves, and skullcap, impregnated his juice, Tamerlane destroyed. For any person 2-3 gram dose would be deadly aconite.

Jasieniec (lat. Dictamnus)-dangerous plants
  

During its flowering fraxinella extraordinarily beautiful. Large white, pink, lilac flowers with purple veins will not leave anyone indifferent. And when there are fruit - Boxes with shiny black seeds - around yasentsa distributed fairly sharp flavor, like the smell of orange peel. This smell oils.
They say if a windless sunny day to bring the plant to a lit match around it flashes red and purple flames, but the plant itself will remain untouched by fire. So he was called by the people "burning bush."
Despite the beauty yasentsa, to flowers and boxes of seeds in any case, do not touch, and even smell them! First, people will not feel anything, but after a day on the touch position arises burns, which can be replaced long nonhealing ulcers - a trace of them will remain forever. A yasentsa contact with a large area of the body is associated with a risk to life.