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Mountain laurel is poisonous to several animals, including horses, [28] goats, cattle, deer, [29] monkeys, and humans, [30] due to grayanotoxin [31] and arbutin. [32] The green parts of the plant, flowers , twigs, and pollen are all toxic, [ 30 ] including food products made from them, such as toxic honey that may produce neurotoxic and ...
Kalmia polifolia has poisoned cattle, goats and sheep. For poisoning to occur, the animal must consume 0.3% of its body weight, while a dosage of 2% of an [vague] would cause severe sickness. [8] Symptoms for affected goats include depression, nausea, salivation, vomiting, and grating of teeth. [8]
Other names for Kalmia, particularly Kalmia angustifolia, are sheep-laurel, lamb-kill, calf-kill, kill-kid, and sheep-poison, [3] which may be written with or without the hyphen. (See species list below.) "Kid" here refers to a young goat , not a human child, but the foliage and twigs are toxic to humans as well.
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Mountain Laurel or mountain laurel may refer to: Calia secundiflora, Texas mountain laurel; Cryptocarya nova-anglica from eastern Australia; Kalmia latifolia, from eastern North America; Umbellularia californica, from north-western North America
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife monitors a portion of the state’s mountain goat populations, and estimates of the goats regularly surveyed fell from 1,537 in 2015 to 917 in 2022 ...
In many cases, entire genera are poisonous to equines and include many species spread over several continents. Plants can cause reactions ranging from laminitis (found in horses bedded on shavings from black walnut trees), anemia , kidney disease and kidney failure (from eating the wilted leaves of red maples ), to cyanide poisoning (from the ...
The native flora of the United States has provided the world with a large number of horticultural and agricultural plants, mostly ornamentals, such as flowering dogwood, redbud, mountain laurel, bald cypress, southern magnolia, and black locust, all now cultivated in temperate regions worldwide, but also various food plants such as blueberries ...