Poisonous Plants Project
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Official account of The Poisonous Plants Project, where we discuss any aspect of poisonous plants, so knowledge might avert inadvertent harms. Any source is valid, as long as it is factual.
Ask us questions, give us answers- civility ensures engagement.
Ask us questions, give us answers- civility ensures engagement.
Great fun chatting with Pete from the ToxPod at TIAFT in Auckland New Zealand about our new Project, The Australian Poisonous Plants Project!
I knew Pete back in Adelaide, and never anticipated having a yarn in a hotel stairwell!
#Poisonous_Plants
www.buzzsprout.com/227318/episo...
I knew Pete back in Adelaide, and never anticipated having a yarn in a hotel stairwell!
#Poisonous_Plants
www.buzzsprout.com/227318/episo...
On the Spot at TIAFT2025 - Part 2 - The Toxpod
Part 2 of On the Spot at TIAFT 2025 in Auckland, New Zealand.Contact us at [email protected] out more about TIAFT at www.tiaft.orgThe Toxpod is a production of the International Association of Fore...
www.buzzsprout.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Great fun chatting with Pete from the ToxPod at TIAFT in Auckland New Zealand about our new Project, The Australian Poisonous Plants Project!
I knew Pete back in Adelaide, and never anticipated having a yarn in a hotel stairwell!
#Poisonous_Plants
www.buzzsprout.com/227318/episo...
I knew Pete back in Adelaide, and never anticipated having a yarn in a hotel stairwell!
#Poisonous_Plants
www.buzzsprout.com/227318/episo...
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"The third source is the body of vernacular literature from Ireland and Wales which, although not written down until the tenth century at the earliest, is thought..."
- from Celtic Women in Legend, Myth, and History
by L. W. Wilde (1997)
#literature #medieval #oraltradition #ironage #wales #writing
- from Celtic Women in Legend, Myth, and History
by L. W. Wilde (1997)
#literature #medieval #oraltradition #ironage #wales #writing
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"The third source is the body of vernacular literature from Ireland and Wales which, although not written down until the tenth century at the earliest, is thought..."
- from Celtic Women in Legend, Myth, and History
by L. W. Wilde (1997)
#literature #medieval #oraltradition #ironage #wales #writing
- from Celtic Women in Legend, Myth, and History
by L. W. Wilde (1997)
#literature #medieval #oraltradition #ironage #wales #writing
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Healthy soil, healthy life.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Healthy soil, healthy life.
Our Hippeastrum is making an early show in Canberra- poisonous, loud and very proud. We have had words about when humans think Christmas happens, but like my adolescent kids, it clearly has its own ideas.
Although beautiful, they contain lycorine, an emetogenic agent, as well as oxalates. You
Although beautiful, they contain lycorine, an emetogenic agent, as well as oxalates. You
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Our Hippeastrum is making an early show in Canberra- poisonous, loud and very proud. We have had words about when humans think Christmas happens, but like my adolescent kids, it clearly has its own ideas.
Although beautiful, they contain lycorine, an emetogenic agent, as well as oxalates. You
Although beautiful, they contain lycorine, an emetogenic agent, as well as oxalates. You
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Hello! While our Archives aren't searchable by plant, our Library colleague can share this: "The first work that I know about (there might be other ones) that is wholly dedicated to venoms and poisons is the Theriaka and Alexipharmaka. We have a Latin and Italian translation of this one from 1764
October 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Hello! While our Archives aren't searchable by plant, our Library colleague can share this: "The first work that I know about (there might be other ones) that is wholly dedicated to venoms and poisons is the Theriaka and Alexipharmaka. We have a Latin and Italian translation of this one from 1764
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Tawny #frogmouth voted Australian 2025 bird of the year - and it’s about time! Here’s one of my favourite photos of a curious chick and parent (male) desperately trying to get the fluffball to imitate how to look like a branch 😊 #Camoflauge #AwesomeBirds #wildoz
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Tawny #frogmouth voted Australian 2025 bird of the year - and it’s about time! Here’s one of my favourite photos of a curious chick and parent (male) desperately trying to get the fluffball to imitate how to look like a branch 😊 #Camoflauge #AwesomeBirds #wildoz
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Meta gonna Meta.
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Meta gonna Meta.
Many interested in #PoisonousPlants know of the association between grayanotoxins, Rhododendrons, and ‘mad honey’…
Pieris spp., part of the Ericaceae family, evolve the same!
This beauty is in flower in the Old Parliamentary Gardens in Canberra.
(Wisteria not out yet!😉)
Pieris spp., part of the Ericaceae family, evolve the same!
This beauty is in flower in the Old Parliamentary Gardens in Canberra.
(Wisteria not out yet!😉)
September 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Many interested in #PoisonousPlants know of the association between grayanotoxins, Rhododendrons, and ‘mad honey’…
Pieris spp., part of the Ericaceae family, evolve the same!
This beauty is in flower in the Old Parliamentary Gardens in Canberra.
(Wisteria not out yet!😉)
Pieris spp., part of the Ericaceae family, evolve the same!
This beauty is in flower in the Old Parliamentary Gardens in Canberra.
(Wisteria not out yet!😉)
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My friend just posted this and now I TOTALLY WANT A PROSTHETIC ROBO DINOSAUR TAIL.
August 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My friend just posted this and now I TOTALLY WANT A PROSTHETIC ROBO DINOSAUR TAIL.
This came as a belated birthday present, and it's a fantastic little tome for anyone interested in plant poisons!
Hearty congratulations to the authors...
Hearty congratulations to the authors...
August 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This came as a belated birthday present, and it's a fantastic little tome for anyone interested in plant poisons!
Hearty congratulations to the authors...
Hearty congratulations to the authors...
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“In Sydney, to park their cars, older citizens successfully lobbied local councillors to reduce the total amount of space for play, from the entire car park to one aisle of parking.” 🤦🏻♂️
Alarming finding from case studies of urban play projects.
“Because of a range of aggressive behaviour from adults, children’s use of streets and public spaces were consistently restricted. A common statement from dissenters was ‘children can go elsewhere.’ The reality is they can’t.”
“Because of a range of aggressive behaviour from adults, children’s use of streets and public spaces were consistently restricted. A common statement from dissenters was ‘children can go elsewhere.’ The reality is they can’t.”
How to give children the freedom to play all across the city – not just in playgrounds
Play should be promoted in cities to bolster children’s right to play anywhere.
theconversation.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
“In Sydney, to park their cars, older citizens successfully lobbied local councillors to reduce the total amount of space for play, from the entire car park to one aisle of parking.” 🤦🏻♂️
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Solanum diversity! 4 species, 3 of them firsts for me in 2024. Left to right: nigrum, villosum ssp. miniatum, physalifolium, chenopodioides.
#botany #Solanaceae #wildflowers
#botany #Solanaceae #wildflowers
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Solanum diversity! 4 species, 3 of them firsts for me in 2024. Left to right: nigrum, villosum ssp. miniatum, physalifolium, chenopodioides.
#botany #Solanaceae #wildflowers
#botany #Solanaceae #wildflowers
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Duboisia hopwoodii
Solanaceae
Lasseter Highway,
Northern Territory
August 2022
#Duboisia #Solanaceae #Pituri #PitchuriThornapple #Pitcheri #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany
Solanaceae
Lasseter Highway,
Northern Territory
August 2022
#Duboisia #Solanaceae #Pituri #PitchuriThornapple #Pitcheri #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany
December 14, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Duboisia hopwoodii
Solanaceae
Lasseter Highway,
Northern Territory
August 2022
#Duboisia #Solanaceae #Pituri #PitchuriThornapple #Pitcheri #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany
Solanaceae
Lasseter Highway,
Northern Territory
August 2022
#Duboisia #Solanaceae #Pituri #PitchuriThornapple #Pitcheri #ozflora #ozplants #Australiannature #botany
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November 24, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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Brugmansia spp. are cultivated for their large, pendulous flowers that are fragrant at night. They are moth-pollinated—except the red, scentless, hummingbird-pollinated spp. We see these pollinator shifts throughout the family. 📷1: B. versicolor. 📷2: B. sanguinea. #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
July 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Brugmansia spp. are cultivated for their large, pendulous flowers that are fragrant at night. They are moth-pollinated—except the red, scentless, hummingbird-pollinated spp. We see these pollinator shifts throughout the family. 📷1: B. versicolor. 📷2: B. sanguinea. #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
July 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Did you know the under their new terms, if you send files via WeTransfer then you are allowing them to use those files for pretty much anything, including AI training?
Be mindful of this if this is your preferred file transfer system
Be mindful of this if this is your preferred file transfer system
July 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Did you know the under their new terms, if you send files via WeTransfer then you are allowing them to use those files for pretty much anything, including AI training?
Be mindful of this if this is your preferred file transfer system
Be mindful of this if this is your preferred file transfer system
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A quote from "The Comfort of Crows" by Margaret Renkl speaks to me: "I can't change America's love affair with poisons, and I can't solve the problems of climate change, but I can plant a garden."
February 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A quote from "The Comfort of Crows" by Margaret Renkl speaks to me: "I can't change America's love affair with poisons, and I can't solve the problems of climate change, but I can plant a garden."
Back in 1984, an intrepid team of amateur botanists embarked on an ambitious project- to catalogue and describe Australia's poisonous flora.
It was funded by a local government grant, which ran out after a year...
But the amount of work that they achieved in
anbg.gov.au/poison-plants/background.html
It was funded by a local government grant, which ran out after a year...
But the amount of work that they achieved in
anbg.gov.au/poison-plants/background.html
Poison Plant Illustrations - Australian Plant Information
anbg.gov.au
July 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Back in 1984, an intrepid team of amateur botanists embarked on an ambitious project- to catalogue and describe Australia's poisonous flora.
It was funded by a local government grant, which ran out after a year...
But the amount of work that they achieved in
anbg.gov.au/poison-plants/background.html
It was funded by a local government grant, which ran out after a year...
But the amount of work that they achieved in
anbg.gov.au/poison-plants/background.html
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in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun
June 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun
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