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The plant is poisonous, containing cardiostimulant compounds such as adonidin and aconitic acid. [42] Aesculus hippocastanum: horse-chestnut, buckeye, conker tree Sapindaceae: All parts of the raw plant are poisonous due to saponins and glycosides such as aesculin, causing nausea, muscle twitches, and sometimes paralysis. [43] Agave spp.
repellent to many pests [3] Parsley: repels asparagus beetles [3] Peppermint: repels aphids, cabbage looper, flea beetles, squash bugs, whiteflies, and the Small White [3] Petunias: repel aphids, tomato hornworm, asparagus beetles, leafhoppers, [2] and squash bugs [3] Pitcher plants: traps and ingests insects Radish: repels cabbage maggot and ...
Make sure you know what these plants look like and where you can find them. This guide includes common plants that are toxic to the touch and to eat. A guide to some of NC’s most dangerous ...
Flowers (June to July), edible raw, as a salad green, or pickled, or to make tea, or alcoholic beverages Berries (August to October), edible when ripe (turning upside down) and cooked; raw berries are mildly poisonous
Just 2% of Earth's 1 million known insect species are harmful to plants, animals or humans. Here are 10 that can damage your vegetable gardens.
The bugs won’t hurt you but they are serious about eating fruit trees, corn, garden vegetables and some ornamental plants. The adults gravitate to fruit, younger bugs also like leaves and stems.
Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (). [1] They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple [2] (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia).
The tarnished plant bug (TPB), Lygus lineolaris, is a species of plant-feeding insect in the family Miridae.It has piercing-sucking mouthparts and has become a serious pest on small fruits and vegetables in North America.