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Poisonous Plant - Laburnum
Latin Name: Laburnum anagyroides
Other names for Laburnum include Golden Chain Tree and Golden Rain Tree.
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High Risk
Description: The yellow flowers of early summer produce the pods and pea-like fruit.
Symptoms may include: Abdominal pain, elevated temperature, tremors, unsteady gate and convulsions.
Notes: Fatal poisoning in horses has been reported, mostly involving high consumption of seeds and pods eaten from trees to which they had been tied. Even the roots contain a poisonous alkaloid. The bark and seeds do more damage than the leaves. Oral toxicity of seeds for horses is about 0.05% of the animal's weight. |
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