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Toxic plants and foods
Here is a quick reference guide to the more common house and garden plants and foods that are toxic to most all animals. If you have these plants or foods, you need not dispose of them-just keep them away from your pets (and your children).
*Indicates that a substance
is especially dangerous and can be fatal.
Alcohol (all beverages, ethanol, methanol, isopropyl)
Almonds*
Alocasia
Amaryllis bulb*
Apricot*
Arrowgrass
Autumn crocus ( Colchicum autumnale)*
Avocado (leaves, seeds, stem, skin)*
Azalea (entire rhododendron family)
Baneberry
Bayonet
Beargrass
Begonia*
Bird of Paradise
Bittersweet
Black-eyed Susan
Black Locust
Bleeding heart*
Bluebonnet
Bloodrot
Box
Boxwood
Bracken fern
Buckeye
Burning Bush
Buttercup (Ranunculus)
Caffeine
Caladium*
Calla lily*
Canada Yew
Candelabra
Cactus
Castor bean* (can be fatal if chewed)
Ceriman
Cherry
Chinaberry
Chinese sacred or heavenly bamboo*
Chocolate
Choke cherry (unripe berries)*
Christmas Rose
Chrysanthemum (a natural source of pyrethrins)
Clematis
Coriaria
Cornflower
Corydalis
Crocus bulb
Croton (Codiaeum sp.)
Crown of Thorns
Cyclamen bulb
Daffodil
Daphne
Datura
Deadly Nightshade
Death Camas
Delphinium, larkspur, monkshood*
Dicentrea
Dieffenbachia
Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia)*
Easter Lily
Eggplant
Elderberry (unripe berries)
Elephant Ear
English ivy (All Hedera species of ivy)
Fig (Ficus)
Euonymus
Evergreen Ferns
Ficus
Flax
Four-o'clocks (Mirabilis)
Foxglove (Digitalis)
Garlic*
Golden Glow
Gopher Purge
Hellebore
Hemlock
Henbane
Holly berries
Honeysuckle
Horsebeans
Horsebrush
Horse Chestnut
Hyacinth bulbs
Hydrangea*
Iris corms
Iris Ivy
Jack-in-the-pulpit*
Japanese Yew
Java Beans
Jessamine
Jerusalem Cherry
Jimson weed*
Jonquil
Jungle Trumpets
Kalanchoe*
Lantana*
Larkspur
Laurel
Lily (bulbs of most species)
Lily-of-the-valley
Lily Spider
Locoweed
Lupine species
Malanga
Marigold
Marijuana or hemp (Cannibus)*
Milkweed*
Mistletoe berries*
Mock Orange
Monkshood
Morning glory*
Mountain laurel
Mushrooms
Narcissus, daffodil (Narcissus)
Nettles
Nightshade
Oak* (remove bark for use as a bird perch)
Oleander*
Onions*
Peace Lilly
Peach*
Pencil cactus plant* (Euphorbia sp.)
Peony
Periwinkle
Peyote Cactus
Philodendron (all species)*
Pimpernel
Poinciana
Poinsettia (many hybrids, avoid them all)
Poison Ivy
Poison Oak
Pokeweed
Poppy
Potato (plant)
Potato (leaves and stem)
Precatory beans
Privet
Rhododendron
Rhubarb leaves*
Rosary Pea (Arbus sp.)* (Can be fatal if chewed)
Rubber Plant
Schefflera (umbrella plant)
Scotch Broom
Schefflera
Shamrock (Oxalis sp.)*
Skunk Cabbage
Snowdrops
Snow-on-the-Mountain
Spreading English Yew
Spurge (Euphorbia sp.)
Staggerweed
Starleaf
Star of Bethlehem
Sweetpea
Tansy Mustard
Tobacco
Tomatoes (leaves and stem)
Tuffroot
Tulip
Virginia Creeper
Walnut hulls
Water Arum
Weeping Fig
Wild Call Wisteria
Wild Calla
Wisteria
Yellow Calla
Yew*
** Information
updated April 2, 2001