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Poisonous Plant -
Mercury
Latin
Name: Mercurialis
spp.
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Low Risk
Symptoms
may include: Gastrointestinal
upset, jaundice of oral and genital mucous membrane and eyes, salvation,
diarrhoea, weakness, lethargy, blood stained urine and coma which may
precede death.
Notes: Unpleasant
taste, poisoning rare but animals will eat the plant when other food is
scarce and have been known to develop a taste for it.
Poisonous Plants
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