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European Mistletoe | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. European Mistletoe - Viscum album. European Mistletoe - Viscum album - image is under CC-BY-SA, from The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Did you know that? Mistletoe is a hemi-parasitic plant, living on various kinds of trees? Celtic druids regarded mistletoe as sacred, believed that it was capable of curing all ailments, and used it as a cure for infertility? The custom of kissing under mistletoe was brought to Germany by British mercenaries?
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Christmas/Common holly | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. Common Holly - Ilex aquifolium. Ilex aquifolium - Image is under CC-BY-SA, from Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen. Ilex aquifolium - Image is under CC-BY-SA, from Hans Hillewaert. Did you know that? Romans, when celebrating the solstice, sent holly twigs to their friends as a sign of their favor? Christian folklore states that holly thorns represent Christ's crown of thorns, and the red berries his blood? Cases of poisonin...
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. Atropa belladonna - image is under CC-BY-SA, from Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen. Did you know that? Nightshade is an ingredient in atropine drops, used in ocular medicine, because atropine dilates the pupils? In the early and middle ages, women of all ages rubbed belladonna juice into their eyes to make them large and beautiful, from which also comes the species name of the plant (bella donna = beautiful woman)? Sea wa...
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Belcher's sea snake | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Belcher's sea snake. Find me in books. Did you know that? Sea snakes are among the most poisonous snakes, whose venom is more dangerous than the cobra or mamba? All sea snakes give birth to live young and do so in the water? Sea snakes have completely lost the ability to move on dry land? Sea snakes often travel in large swarms, the largest known of which had around one million individuals and was over a kilometer long? Maximum length - 1 m.
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Common Laburnum | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. Laburnum anagyroides - image is under CC-BY-SA of University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU. Laburnum anagyroides - image is under CC-BY-SA of Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen. Did you know that? During WWI, experiments were conducted aimed at using laburnum to replace tobacco (the principal psychoactive chemical is cytosine, a poisonous alkaloid with similar effects to nicotine)? Maximum height 7 m. A rob...
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Chinese raptor | Poisonous Nature
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. Chinese raptor - Sinornithosaurus. Did you know that? Body was covered with feathers, which certainly did not serve for flight, but likely as insulation for warmth? Was a close relative of the predatory. Fossilized melanosomes have been found with. Fossils, from which we know that the feathers of this dinosaur were orange, yellow and black? Is from Latin and Greek, and means "Chinese bird lizard"? A study was published in 2009 indicating that.
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Skip to main content. Sort all content by:. Find me in books. Black widow - Latrodectus mactans. Black widow - Latrodectus mactans. Black widow - Latrodectus mactans. Did you know that? Black widows have a penchant for hiding under outhouse toilet seats, so bites on genitals are one of the most common injuries they cause? The term 'widow' comes from the fact that after mating, the much larger female often eats the male? Theridiids create 4 to 9 egg sacs per year, each of which can contain up to 200 eggs?
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