Nerium Oleander
This is a well-known plant, often seen in
cultivation, and seemingly a favorite with many. It belongs to a
poisonous family and is a dangerous poison. A decoction of its
leaves forms a wash, employed in the south of Europe to destroy
vermin; and
its powdered wood and bark constitute the basis of an
efficacious rat-poison. Children have died from eating the
flowers. A party of soldiers in Spain, having meat to roast in
camp, procured spits and skewers of the tree, which there attains
a large size. The wood having been stripped of its bark, and
brought in contact with the meat, was productive of fatal
consequences, for seven men died out of the twelve who partook of
the meat and the other five were for some time dangerously ill.
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