I have oleander in my yard. Luckily it doesn't spring up wild around here and being a bush, grows rather slowly. I've heard just regular decorative flowers like calililies and azaleas are toxic. You could make a poisonous soup out of almost everything in a basic southern California yard.
I was entertaining myself on a family trip with a Guide to Wild Flowers and was picking wildflowers in Northern California. I picked something that looked very much like Queen Anne's lace... and it turned out to be poison hemlock, a cousin to the wild parsnip apparently.
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That is some nasty stuff. We have it in Vermont.
Down south the one to worry about is oleander.
I have oleander in my yard. Luckily it doesn't spring up wild around here and being a bush, grows rather slowly. I've heard just regular decorative flowers like calililies and azaleas are toxic. You could make a poisonous soup out of almost everything in a basic southern California yard.
I was entertaining myself on a family trip with a Guide to Wild Flowers and was picking wildflowers in Northern California. I picked something that looked very much like Queen Anne's lace... and it turned out to be poison hemlock, a cousin to the wild parsnip apparently.
Washed my hands carefully afterwards...
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