| PLANT
NAME |
POISONOUS PARTS of plant |
IDENTIFYING.DETAILS
|
|
A |
|
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| Angel’s trumpets
|
All, esp flowers and seeds |
small tree, trumpet flowers
|
| Apples of Sodom
|
mottled green & white berry |
weed - shrub with prickles
|
Arum lilies
Kaffir lily (clivias) |
all – burning feel in mouth |
large white trumpet lily
|
|
Asparagus fern |
red berries poisonous |
garden plant, fern-like
|
Atropa belladonnas
Black nightshade |
all parts highly poisonous
leaves and unripe black berries |
aka Deadly Nightshade
like black currant berries |
Azaleas
Rhododendrons |
leaves and stem
leaves and stem - deadly to camelids |
garden shrub/tree
colourful flowers |
|
B |
|
|
| Bittersweet
|
|
solanum family
|
| Boxus (box) hedge |
leaves |
ornamental hedge |
|
Boxthorn |
scarlet berries |
hedge plant with prickles |
|
Bracken |
when prolonged feeding, esp
new growth |
colonising plant esp on
bush edges |
|
Brassicas |
too much is poisonous to
stock |
cabbages, cauliflowers etc |
| Buttercups
|
in large quantities when fresh
OK dried in hay
burning feel in mouth
too much is poisonous to stock |
yellow flowers - grows in damp pasture
|
|
C |
|
|
| Cape lilacs
|
berries |
toxic
|
| Cape tulips
|
all highly toxic even when dead/dried
|
rare - spring flowering bulb
|
| Castor oil
beans
|
shiny seed capsule with 3 seeds
|
4.5m, large leaves, greenish-white to rust
flowers |
|
Cestrum |
all parts, green or
dried |
yellow flowered shrub |
|
D |
|
|
| Daffodils
|
stems and bulbs if 1 plant worth eaten
|
spring flowering bulbs
|
| Daphnes
|
all |
sweet-smelling pink
flowers, garden bush |
| Datura |
all parts, green or dried |
hanging white trumpet flowers |
|
Deadly nightshade |
all parts highly
poisonous
leaves and unripe black berries |
like black currant berries
|
| |
|
|
|
F |
|
|
|
Foxgloves
|
poisonous to stock in quantity
|
weed - tall flower spike with bell flowers
|
|
H |
|
|
| Hemlock
|
all highly toxic, even when dead/dried
|
weed to 2m, parsley-like leaves
|
| Horse chestnuts
|
seeds(conkers) |
English tree, deciduous |
|
I
|
|
|
| Inkweeds
|
red-black berries, leaves, roots
|
woody plant to 2m high with flower spike
|
| Iris
|
many are poisonous, esp Stinking Iris
with orange seeds |
garden flower, often blue
or yellow |
|
Ivies |
all |
evergreen climber with shiny leaves
|
|
J |
|
|
| Jerusalem cherries
|
all, especially shiny orange berries
|
small shrub, star-like flowers, pointed leaves
|
|
K |
|
|
|
Karaka tree |
kernel of large orange berries
|
NZ native, small green flowers, dark green leaves
|
|
Kowhai |
all, especially yellow seed in long pods
|
NZ native, deciduous, drooping yellow flowers
|
|
L |
|
|
| Laburnums
|
all, especially bark and seeds - 8 kidney shaped, in green pod
|
yellow pea-type flowers |
| Lantanas
|
green berries |
garden plant |
Lillies
|
few are poisonous -
causes stinging in mouth |
garden plant
|
| Lilies of the Valley
|
all, especially seeds |
bulb - sweet-smelling small white bell-shaped flowers
|
| Lobelias
|
all |
garden plant |
|
M |
|
|
| Macrocarpa
|
leaves cause stock abortion
in all stock |
OK for male stock |
| Milkwood |
fruit, leaves, milky sap |
weed to 40cm, greenish-yellow flowers
|
|
Monkshood |
|
|
|
N |
|
|
| Ngaios
|
all green parts and fruit - CAUTION
in coastal areas looks like coprosma,
also called karamu, another native
shrub/tree, which alpacas love |
NZ native with pale spots in leaves
|
Nettles
(Onga ongas) |
harmful to touch, stinging hairs - especially native tree nettle
|
nettle in grass, or tree nettle to 2.5m
|
|
Nightshades |
see Deadly nightshade
also poroporo, solanum below |
|
|
O |
|
|
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Oleanders
|
all
|
garden shrub |
|
P |
|
|
|
Pennyroyal |
can cause abortion |
a crawling plant |
|
Photinia (red robin) |
the red leaves contain arsenic,
which can cause abortion |
hedging plant |
| Poinsettias
|
milky sap blisters skin, stings mouth
|
garden plant |
| Poppies
|
Iceland poppy and Opium poppy
|
garden plant |
Poroporos
aka
nightshades, solanum |
leaves, berries - green, ripening to orange-yellow - related to deadly nightshade
|
NZ native, 2m, purple flowers
|
| Privet
|
berries in large numbers
|
hedge plant |
|
Q |
|
|
| Queen of the Night
|
|
|
|
R |
|
|
| Rhododendron
|
all, pruning/clipping fatal to stock
just 14 leaves for an alpaca
honey poisonous to humans |
shrubs and trees |
| Rhubarb
|
leaf has oxalic acid - do not eat, raw or
cooked (stem OK raw and cooked) |
vegetable garden plant
|
|
Rhus |
plant toxic - dermatitis in half of humans, including smoke when burnt
|
deciduous tree with striking autumn foliage
|
|
S |
|
|
Solanum
aka poroporo
nightshade |
potato
and tomato family, and NZ native poroporo has poisonous
leaves and berries -
green, ripening to orange-yellow |
NZ native, 2m, purple flowers |
|
Spindle Tree |
|
fruiting tree,
attractive pink pods |
|
Sweet Peas |
pods poisonous to stock
|
flowering garden plant
|
|
T |
|
|
|
Tutus |
all, especially black-purple grape-like berries
(and honey poisonous to humans) |
NZ native - climber and shrub,
purple grape like berries |
|
W |
|
|
|
Wax tree |
harmful to touch to children |
small deciduous tree
|
|
White cedars |
all - aka Chinaberry, Indian bead, Persian lilac
|
|
|
Y |
|
|
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Yew |
leaves and berries
|
evergreen tree |
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of more poisonous plants in New Zealand |
