Flower Identification help
Posted: Jul 01 2012 9:54 pm
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Family Ranunculaceae – Buttercup family
Genus Aconitum L. – monkshood P
Species Aconitum infectum Greene – Arizona monkshood
Poisoning may also occur following picking the leaves without wearing gloves; the aconitine toxin is absorbed easily through the skin. In this event, there will be no gastrointestinal effects. Tingling will start at the point of absorption and extend up the arm to the shoulder, after which the heart will start to be affected.
Doesn't seem to be bothering that mosquito or the worm on the stem...Marked symptoms may appear almost immediately, usually not later than one hour, and "with large doses death is almost instantaneous." Death usually occurs within 2 to 6 hours in fatal poisoning (20 to 40 mL of tincture may prove fatal).[14] The initial signs are gastrointestinal including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. There is followed by a sensation of burning, tingling, and numbness in the mouth and face, and of burning in the abdomen. In severe poisonings pronounced motor weakness occurs and cutaneous sensations of tingling and numbness spread to the limbs. Cardiovascular features include hypotension, sinusbradycardia, and ventricular arrhythmias. Other features may include sweating, dizziness, difficulty in breathing, headache, and confusion. The main causes of death are ventricular arrhythmias and asystole, paralysis of the heart or of the respiratory center.[14][15] The only post-mortem signs are those of asphyxia.
I guess it's another reason to tiptoe through the Tulips. If the Fauna doesn't get you, the flora will....chumley wrote:That plant is deadly poisonous
Thanks!!New2hyk wrote:The white flowers are cosmos and last two are blanket flower.