Dieffenbachia Dieffenbachia poisoning, a type of plant poisoning, leads to burning or swelling of the mouth or throat and may be severe enough to block breathing airways.

The very unexpectedness of plant poisoning is in itself another hazard.

Most cases of plant poisoning are not terminal nor even very dramatic.

It is one of the most common causes of accidental plant poisoning based on attendance at hospital A & E departments.

Visitors will receive a brochure to take home listing 70 poisonous plants that are common in North America, the parts of the plant that are poisonous, how to avoid plant poisoning and how to handle a situation where poisoning is suspected.

Morton became known as an expert on plant poisonings and was often consulted by local authorities.

Jaspersen-Schib R, Theus L, Guirguis-Oeschger M, et al. [Serious plant poisonings in Switzerland 1966-1994.

If plant poisoning is suspected, medical help should be obtained immediately.

The reader does not know what to make of this until the very end, when Gamal's daughter, while suffering from a near-lethal incident of plant poisoning, happens to be flying - in suspended animation or ephemeral death - over her father as he nervously fiddles with his wedding band.

A 1996 estimate of plant poisonings in South Africa attributes 8% of cattle mortality caused by poisonous plants to gifblaar.