Top 10 Plants Which Looks Beautiful But Are Poisonous

By AgroMind Team

Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna)

This plant usually occurs in region of Europe, North Africa, Western Asia and some parts of the USA and Canada. Only 10 berries of this plant can kill an adult.

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)

Tobacco is a commercially grown non-food plant. and in 2020 it was used by an estimated 22.3% of the global population. all parts of the plant contain the toxic alkaloids nicotine and anabasine

Manchineel (Hippomane mancinella)

This plant is also known as ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Tree’. Every part of the plant is Toxic. It is founf in Tropical parts of America.

Lily-Of-The-Valley (Convallaria majalis)

This plant is beautiful,  but poisonous. This is an expensive flowering plant known for its delicate perfume. It has high concentration of cardiac glycosides

Oleander (​​Nerium oleander)

It has striking flowers. it also contains toxic cardiac glycosides.

Rosary Pea, or crab's eye vine (Abrus precatorius)

Also known as the jequirity bean and falls in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Asia and Australia.

Cerbera odollam

This tree is also known as "Suicide Tree". This tree bears a highly toxic fruit called othalanga.

Hemlock water-dropwort (Oenanthe crocata)

This plant also known as 'dead man's fingers' which belongs to carrot family. It causes brain haemorrhage.

Monkshood, wolf's bane (Aconitum genus)

This plant also known as Wolf's bane. The toxin derived from these plants aconite used in several parts of the world as an arrow poison for hunting.

Thornapples (Datura genus)

This plant is also known as devil's trumpets or hells bells. This is very poisonous plant. This plant has hallucinogenic properties.

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