Toxic Woods

  • ALDER – red alder – see Alder / Alder Buckthorn
  • ANDROMEDA – (Pieris / Lily of the Valley shrub)
  • APRICOT
  • ARROWHEAD VINE
  • AVACADO
  • AZALEA – Related to Rhododendron
  • BANEBERRY – Actaea
  • BEANS – (castor, horse, fava, broad, glory, scarlet runner)
  • BRACKEN FERN
  • BURDOCK
  • CACAO
  • CAMEL BUSH – Trichodesma
  • CANARY BIRD BUSH – Crotalaria
  • CANNABIS
  • CASTOR BEAN
  • CEDAR – Thuja, Chamaecyparis, Cupressus
  • CHERRY
  • COMMON SAGE
  • CORIANDER – Cilantro
  • DATURA
  • DAPHNE – it’s the berries
  • ELDERBERRY
  • FOXGLOVE
  • GROUND CHERRY
  • HEMLOCK – Tsuga
  • HOLLY – Ilex
  • HORSE CHESTNUT – Aesculus
  • HUCKLEBERRY – leaves bad: – – both evergreen or deciduous
  • HYDRANGEA
  • JASMINE
  • LAUREL – Prunus
  • LUPINE
  • MANGO -(fruit okay: not wood or leaves)
  • NUTMEG
  • OAK – Quercus – all parts / tannins
  • MISTLETOE
  • PEAR – some sources lean toward safe
  • PRIVET
  • RED MAPLE
  • REDWOOD – – – Sequiadendron, Metasequoia, Sequoia
  • RHODODENDRON
  • RHUBARB
  • TOMATO – stems, vines, and leaves
  • WITCH HAZEL – Hamamelis
  • WISTERIA
  • YEW – Taxus

Toxic Plants

  • ARUM LILY
  • AMARYLLIS
  • ARALIA
  • ARROWHEAD VINE
  • AUTUMN CROCUS
  • AUSTRALIAN FLAMETREE
  • AUSTRALIAN UMBRELLA TREE
  • AVOCADO
  • BEANS: (CASTOR, HORSE, FAVA, BROAD, GLORY, SCARLET RUNNER, MESCAL, NAVY, PREGATORY
  • BIRD OF PARADISE
  • BLACK LAUREL
  • BLUEBONNET
  • BLUEGREEN ALGAE
  • BRACKEN FERN
  • BULB FLOWERS:(AMARYLLIS, DAFFODIL, NARCISSUS, HYACINTH & IRIS)
  • BURDOCK
  • BUTTERCUP
  • CARDINAL FLOWER
  • CHALICE (TRUMPET VINE)
  • CHERRY TREE
  • COFFEE (SENNA)
  • COFFEE BEAN (RATTLEBUSH, RATTLE BOX & COFFEEWEED)
  • CORAL PLANT
  • CORIANDER
  • DAFFODIL
  • DAPHNE
  • DEATH CAMUS
  • DELPHINIUM
  • DEVIL’S IVY
  • EGGPLANT leaves
  • ELDERBERRY
  • ENGLISH IVY
  • EUCALYPTUS (DRIED, DYED OR TREATED IN FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS)
  • EUONYMUS (SPINDLE TREE)
  • EUPHORBIA CACTUS
  • FIG (WEEPING)
  • FOXGLOVE
  • GRASS: (JOHNSON, SORGHUM, SUDAN & BROOM CORN)
  • GROUND CHERRY
  • HEATHS: (KALMIA, LEUCOTHO, PEIRES, RHODODENDRON, MTN. LAUREL, BLACK LAUREL, ANDROMEDA & AZALEA)
  • HEMLOCK: (POISON & WATER)
  • HOLLY
  • HONEYSUCKLE
  • HORSE CHESTNUT
  • HYACINTH
  • HYDRANGEA
  • IRIS
  • IVY: (ENGLISH & OTHERS)
  • JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT
  • JASMINE (JESSAMINE)
  • JUNIPER
  1. COFFEE TREE
  • LILY OF THE VALLEY
  • LUPINE
  • MISTLETOE
  • MOCK ORANGE
  • MONKSHOOD
  • MOONSEED
  • MTN. LAUREL
  • MUSHROOMS, AMANITA
  • NETTLES
  • NIGHTSHADES: (DEADLY, BLACK, GARDEN, WOODY, BITTERSWEET, EGGPLANT leaves, TOMATO -stems, vines, and leaves,JERUSALEM CHERRY)
  • OAK
  • PARSLEY
  • POISON IVY
  • POTATO SHOOTS
  • PRIVET
  • PYRACANTHA
  • RANUNCULUS, BUTTERCUP
  • RAPE
  • RATTLEBOX, CROTALARIA
  • RED MAPLE
  • RHUBARB LEAVES
  • RHODODENDRONS
  • SORREL (DOCK)
  • SWEET PEA
  • TANSY RAGWORT
  • TOBACCO
  • WHITE CEDAR, CHINA BERRY
  • WISTERIA
  • YELLOW JASMINE
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