Some of them, despite their beauty and exoticism, pose a great danger for children, adults and pets.
We all know that children are very inquisitive, besides they like everything bright and beautiful, so a small child can not resist and tear some flower or fruit, sniff, or even take it in his mouth. Even an adult who does not know about the toxicity of a particular plant can be affected by transplanting or pruning.
Acquiring a plant, you must know all about its toxicity. Unfortunately, the sellers of flower shops often themselves do not know anything about the dangers of indoor plants. Therefore, consider some dangerous houseplants.
Perhaps, the most dangerous to life are house plants of the family of kutra: oleander, adenium, pahipodium, allamanda, plumeria, bumontia, strophanthus, dipladenia, tebernemontana, carissa and catarrhatus. The most popular among them-adenium and oleander-are the most poisonous ones. Leaves and other parts of the oleander are deadly. If it gets into food, at least one leaflet can cause an adult to die.
When a person gets into the body toxic substances that are contained in oleander, he develops a strong digestive tract disorder, vomiting, palpitations become more frequent, and hallucinations appear. Then a person's heart rate slows down, blood pressure decreases and a breath stops.
Poisonous substances are contained in all types of plant family kutravyh, so you should be careful with them. Since even the ingress of milky juice from these plants into the eyes or mouth causes severe burns.
Under the definition of dangerous plants fall all kinds of lilies, they are very harmful to both humans and animals. During flowering, they emit a very strong smell, which causes headaches, dizziness, allergies and fainting. It is very dangerous to use lily leaves inside, this can lead to lethal poisoning. No less dangerous are lilies for pets - polishing or biting off a piece of leaf or flower, the animal can seriously get sick or even die.
Symptoms of poisoning are manifested after 30-60 minutes after the penetration of the poison into the digestive tract. The animals start vomiting, they become sluggish and refuse to eat. Poisoning the poison of the lily leads to disruption of the kidneys, they cease to function and the animal dies. Therefore, it is strictly forbidden to grow lilies if there are animals or even a child in the house. Because of the poison of lilies there is no antidote.
Many plants are attracted by an unusual form of leaves, coloring, beautiful flowers, so it is difficult to resist them. You could not even think that these houseplants are dangerous. These include ornamental plants of the family of the aroids: monstera, aglaonema, saromatum, alocasia, syngonium, anthurium, spathiphyllum, arizema, scindapus, diffenbachia, philodendron, zamikolkas, caladium, calla, and colocaia. Not many people know that almost all the plants of the Aroid family contain poisonous oxalic acid, toxic proteins and enzymes.
Oxalic acid salts cause severe burns and irritation. And if the juice of the aroids has got on the mucous membranes, there are swelling, which makes it difficult to breathe, the voice disappears. In this case, you should immediately contact a doctor who will prescribe painkillers and decongestants.
Rhododendrons are also poisonous for humans and pets. To poison is enough to get into the food several leaves of this plant. They contain substances that affect the heart, nervous system and musculature. Therefore, during poisoning, weakening of the heart rhythm, loss of coordination, paralysis of the limbs may develop.
For cats and dogs, very dangerous are the plants of the family of sagovnikov - zamiya and tsikas, as well as the cyclamen tubers. The poisoning of these plants can lead to the death of animals.
Probably, many like flowers hydrangeas, it is difficult to pass by the luxuriant flowering bush. But few know that this flower contains one of the most dangerous poisons - cyanide.
All the plants considered above are very dangerous for human life. There are other poisonous plants, the poison of which is less dangerous, but in large doses can cause severe diseases.
For example, the fruits of such plants of the Araliev family, such as the Japanese aucuba, fatshedera, polisias, fatsia, scheffler are poisonous, they cause allergic reactions and digestive system disorders. In ivy, which also belongs to this family, all parts of the plant are poisonous.
In the begonias tubers there are insoluble salts of oxalic acid, which cause burns, irritation of the oral cavity and difficulty in swallowing.
Another indoor plants are dangerous for life - plants of the spurge family: croton, spurge, acalifa, jatropha. They contain a poisonous substance of euphorbin. It causes severe burns to the mucous membranes and skin. Especially when working with these plants, you should save your eyes. Since milky juice irritates the cornea, which can lead to temporary or complete loss of vision.
Also quite dangerous are representatives of the Solanaceae family - nightshade (Jerusalem cherry), ornamental pepper, brolalia, brunfelsia. For example, brunfusion poisoning causes cough, upset stomach, trembling lethargy.
Such a common indoor plant as a ficus is also dangerous. At some people at hit of a milky juice of a fig on a skin the inflammation begins. And the ficus juice, which got into the air, can cause bronchial asthma and allergies.
As we see many houseplants are dangerous, although they are completely harmless in appearance. But there are many indoor plants that are completely harmless, they can be safely brought into the house and grown. These include gloxinia, orchids, Umbrian violets, hibiscus, various types of succulents, and many others.