poisonous plant
Noun
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A plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism (synset 113120915)
subtypes:
- aconite - any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers
- baneberry, cohosh, herb christopher - a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
- hellebore - any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus
- dogbane - any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
- nerium oleander, oleander, rose bay - an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions
- climbing lily, creeping lily, gloriosa, gloriosa superba, glory lily - any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous
- common snowberry, snowberry, symphoricarpos alba, waxberry - deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries
- american holly, christmas holly - an evergreen tree
- poison ash, poison dogwood, poison sumac, rhus vernix, toxicodendron vernix - smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil
- markweed, poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, rhus radicans, toxicodendron radicans - climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact
- rhus diversiloba, toxicodendron diversilobum, western poison oak - poisonous shrub of the Pacific coast of North America that causes a rash on contact
- eastern poison oak, rhus quercifolia, rhus toxicodenedron, toxicodendron quercifolium - poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact
- chinese lacquer tree, japanese lacquer tree, japanese sumac, japanese varnish tree, lacquer tree, rhus verniciflua, toxicodendron vernicifluum, varnish tree - small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained
- lantana - a flowering shrub
- aethusa cynapium, fool's parsley, lesser hemlock - European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten
- cicuta verosa, water hemlock - tall erect highly poisonous Eurasiatic perennial herb locally abundant in marshy areas
- spotted cowbane, spotted hemlock, spotted water hemlock - tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes
- california fern, conium maculatum, hemlock, nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern - large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
- hemlock water dropwort, oenanthe crocata, water dropwort - European poisonous herb having tuberous roots, yellow juice that stains the skin, yellow flowers and foliage resembling celery; all parts extremely poisonous
- oenanthe aquatica, water fennel - European poisonous herb with fibrous roots
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