20 Most Dangerous Plants In Your Home
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That’s not a reason for the name given to it !
I have never been tempted to eat any of my houseplants.
The problem is kids & pets getting to them which they most certainly will.
Well, I have, but the plant in question was the basil in the kitchen. ;)
Its called dumb cane because eating a leaf will cause difficulty speaking and swallowing.
Interesting 🤔
It was commonly used as a torture method for sugar plantation slaves in the Caribbean, since it would temporarily 'mute' them. This plant has a crazy role in history.
@@hanthonyc oof.. never knew that. thanks for the info!
That's how you can remember NOT TO EAT! 😅
It's the sap that is toxic. It's present in all parts of the plant.
I'm a recent subscriber and I got to say I love your sense of humor. Being funny and informative makes a great video.
Legend!
That fact that PEACE lily is TOXIC is like an underhanded insult
🤔
From the plant world
I believe that the after life is quite peaceful. So....
I don't believe in hell and have no idea what is done to people who committed atrocities.
Not your case or mine, for sure.
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Yesterday, my cat took a bite from my Azalea. So, I had to make a $100 phone call to ASPCA to find out if my cat was gonna be ok. She is fine, but I got rid of the plant.
Back in the 70s we had Oleander in our back yard, and us kids were told a cautionary tale of a family who went camping and used Oleander sticks as kebab skewers. I’m not sure everyone at the campout survived
Oh dear 😬
Few years ago when my partner and i went down the rabbit hole of indoor plants, we were surprised at how many plants were NOT pet safe furthermore the lack of any warnings on the labels.
Yes very true
After 40 years of lots of plants and animals (farm and rescue).... I’ve never had one die from a houseplant.
I have had a cat die from insecticide use :(
I’d not worry unless a specific individual showed an interest in a specific plant and I’d put the plant up or out until I look it to determine what or if a problem.
It's also amazing how many invasive plants aren't labelled as such.
I love my houseplants especially my peace lilies. After listening to your warning about toxicity I will be rehoming them as my granddaughter has a learning difficulties and puts everything in her mouth. Thank you for this information.
Glad it was helpful 👍
Humour and knowledge ♥️ this is why I’m always waiting for the next video lol thank you for all your hard work
Love it!
Can I just say you’re videos are are so funny. I love your gentle sarcasm! Are you by any chance a teacher ? I would love to have you in my performing arts classroom with my students. You would be an awesome teacher especially when doing plays or films. 😂😂😂
Love your videos. Keep them coming !!
Thanks! I can confirm I’m not a teacher 😁
Hi Rich. Hope you, your immediate family and your plant kids have a happy and healthy New Year🎉. Please continue giving us all the best videos ever. Best always, Billie from USA🤗😇😘
Thank you 😊. Happy new year to you too
I believe this is the most exhaustive list with chemical and symptoms indicated on UA-cam. Thanks for all the effort. Only one I kept waiting for was foxglove, but not sure anyone brings them inside to grow. 😊
Great stuff 👍
& I've never heard of Oleander as a houseplant, either! in Arizona, they have laws against burning them, in many places, 'cuz of the toxicity of the fumes.
Merry Christmas 🎄 Mr and Mrs Sheffield!I love your work!Greetings from Maine
Happy holidays!
Good video, this is actually the stuff I've been wondering ever since I started dealing with plants. Haven't seen a collective list of common poisonous plants at home. Another good list would be toxic plants at home. It's good to know which plants belong to which list and which are just generally safe. Funnily enough, anything worth looking is usually not good for people or animals.
Cheers Yuppi!
Hahahaha always love watching your videos. You are so creative and it keeps me coming back. I don’t know how you do it but I thank you for your time and knowledge and commitment to this hobby.
Awesome thank you!
You could do an episode "eating my houseplants" and sample some of the non-toxic plants
For preparing aloe, I have seen people peel the leaves, (I use a potato peeler) and you take the gel and soak it in cold cold water. You’ll see it turn yellow and you’ll want to repeat that process until the water is clear. I have only ever used it for topical purposes and it worked so much better for my sunburns than Alocaine. I would not suggest consuming it unless you really know for certain what you’re doing. Not all Aloe plants are equal!!!
Thanks for sharing
Aloe can put you in kidney failure, it’s that dye, I wouldn’t consume it even if the dye was removed.
Thank you, Charles! i knew about some, but not all. good to know and I shared the info. Happy Holidays to yall!
Happy holidays!
Thank you.Appreciate your sense of humor and knowledge on it.
My pleasure!
This show is very knowledgeable full of life saving information and as usual very funny. Like I have said before you should be a comedian. educational and funny.
Keep the comments coming 😁
I was grabbing food for DoorDash one day, and walking back to the car when a cluster of the most beautiful, pink-tinged white flowers tumbled across my path. Had to pick them up, because it almost seemed like the universe giving me a present. :P Turns out they were oleander, and no bad effects from touching the broken stem, but I've always kind of been in love with them ever since!
The lilly in the valley is kinda an issue here around, considering that it grows here in the forests often along side by side with wild garlic, and there are people gathering the latter. The thing is that the leaves look pretty much similar so the only safe way to differentiate them is by smell, meaning if it doesn't smell like garlic you better not eat it.
My crown of thorns are 5 years old and are beautiful. Wish we plant parents could send you pics of our success stories. My snake plants are 50 years old. I love my plant kids just like you. Thank goodness for your information. Stay well and keep up the good work😇😆
Sounds awesome!
The video is an eye opener. I have some of these plants. Thank you. Again, enjoy the laughs 😄👍
Thanks for watching 😁
most of the time your videos put a smile on my face ...... so thanks again ... have an awesome weekend
Thanks, you too!
Happy new year Mr Sheffield 🎉🎉🎉!
Happy new year!
Good info ... the discussion about the toxicity of these plants serve as a warning for us to be very careful in handling these plants ...
Thanks!
Shamrocks/oxalis also have those crystals. Right now they're going into dormant mode for the winter, which is perfect. My squirrel (rescued in the fall, intended release in the sping) freaking loved both of mine. Thankfully they've died back, but she seems dead spent on destroying my raven zz. Not that she eats it. She keeps knocking the poor thing into the sink. Maybe she knows? lol
Oh really. I thought shamrock leaves were edible. Maybe it's the flowers
@7.35 Common Ivy together with Nettle and Holly are favourites for native insects and Butterflies such as the Holly Blue Butterfly.
Thank you for sharing! This has been helpful especially because I have maybe 80% of the plants you listed. My pup at home won't bother the plants but we have slowly acclimated some for our backyard outside (I live in Florida), and now keep a few indoors that are less harmful for my pup and the little humans in our family.
Glad it was helpful!
Before I had cats I bought plants and never bothered to check if they were toxic, NOW , I have cats and won’t buy a plant unless i google first. I do want to say that from what I have seen and read kalanchoa is a medicinal plant, very widely used in Mexico and Central America. There is even an organization dedicated to its medicinal uses.
I brought my dad home to care for in 2020. I brought his 2 cats with us. They ate my peace lily to a nub. They also ate my palm and my dracaena to death. They were not effected at all and lived to be rehomed, i found out i was allergic.
Thank you for sharing.🙏
My pleasure 😊
Very interesting thanks😊
You bet!
Thank you great information 👍 ❤
You bet!
Thanks for a great video! I have a leaf nibbler too, but mine has 4 feet!🐈
Thanks for watching!
I’m so glad I watched your video! Had no idea about the aloe plant, mother in law tongue ( called snake plant here in Florida, USA, and particularly ivy and peace Lily…both of which our dachshunds seem to think are salads!1
Oops 😬
New subscriber here. You are hilarious and educational. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 🙂
Thanks for subbing!
Great video 😊
Cheers!
I knew about some of these & am glad to hear the rest! Oleanders are planted heavily in landscaping in both Florida & Arizona, so I'm well aware of them! (I'm sure they grow in a lot of places, incl South Georgia & the Carolinas, but I've never been at many of them long enough to know how wide spread! A funny-ish story: I read a novel a few years ago where someone picked up a stick to roast his hot dog on & he died. The stick was from an oleander that had been pruned. IDK if that ever happened in true life (but she got the idea from somewhere!), but it's good to know what kind of wood you're cooking with!
A sobering story 😅
@@SheffieldMadePlantsyes, very! I came back to add some info for your viewers (you probably know it already) as I'm re-watching this, & before I forget. Cardiac glycosides are used as heart medications. The most known is probably digitalis from the foxglove plant. One brand name here in the States is Digoxin. I gave it once to a dying man & naturally had to stay until he died. The med caused his heart to beat LONG after respiration stopped! The toxin in oleander is similar.
To pronounce triterpenoid saponins (FYI, this is Southern US English. IDK how it's said elsewhere): try-turp'-eh-noid sap-ō-nins. Hope that helps! (I'm a nurse AND a word nerd! 😁)
EDIT: one last word, bufadienolide (I had to Google this one & I had it WRONG!) is pronounced byu-fă-dī--ĕn'-ō-līde. (I still can't understand the IPA symbols! How can a 0 with a line through it "sound" like th as in "there"? That's the only one I've figured out, but I don't get where it came from!!)
Cheers, Mr Sheffield!
You bet!
The mother-in-law plant is called 'mother-in-laws sharp tongue' here 🤣
Good tips and warnings, thank you 👍🏻
Like it! 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants My father has always believed Mother-In-Law Tongues (or Snake plants) are BAD LUCK! In fact when his sister died suddenly at 45, his brother-in-law came home from the hospital and chucked the one they had off the balcony! Luckily, it didn't hit anyone on the street below. My Dad never allowed one in the house and I never have either. Like to play it safe. Great video, thank you....had NO idea about the Peace Lily OR the Lily of The Valley!
@@lizstraub6621 Thank you 😊
Great video!! 😺😻
Cheers!
Hey thanks for taking my video suggestion. Like I said before lots of pet toxicity videos, lack of little one toxicity videos. Not every plant toxic to pets is also toxic to humans. Great video 😊❤
Thanks!
I rarely see Madagascar palms on these kinds of lists but itself is very dangerous because even simply touching the leaves of it for too long, can cause skin irritation.
Its thorns (if I remember correctly) and the poison from it was used during Egyptian times for their arrows which is crazy!
Good to know!
I have one at home. Got thorns in my fingers a couple of times. Takes weeks to heal.
5:56 Like it was a salad he got my dyin with that one 😂🤣 Bro you are hilarious this is very informative thanks
I appreciate that 😁
While taking a toxicology class on plants, I was left thinking "Wait, we have this at home." "This too!" "This one as well" Felt like I was playing a "Toxic Plant Bingo" or striking things off a checklist. Our garden has many of the plants on this list, plus some really toxic ones like Brugmansia.
I've seen drinks with aloe vera but we only kept the plant around for burns.
love the information and you are quite the comic character :)
Thank you kindly!
I love your channel. Period.
I appreciate that
Dieffenbachia is called dumb cane because it can look cane-like, when losing the lower leaves. But unlike sugar, it results in a swollen throat and tongue which makes it hard to articulate - so it makes you 'dumb'.
Thanks 🙏
I love oleander. Here in central Texas it is one of the best performing plants during our hot dry summers
Just don’t have a nibble 😅
You are awesome, thank you
Thanks for watching 😁
Part two: How to deal with collapsed cabinets and toxic plants falling from the sky.
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5:07 wow! Nice garden !
😁
🔛 this day Sunday morning. A reminder to all❣️
A few years ago I took a flower of an oleander bush and I drank just one droplet of nectar, it's something that I used to do when I was a child, I felt lightheaded for a couple of days and I had diarrhea for several days; I then searched about the plant and I found out it was an oleander, I have never felt so lucky yet so scared, my sheer naiveness could have easily killed me!!!
Wow that’s sobering
Good morning to you vary nice plans they all so beautiful and amazing happy Christmas to you and the family lovely 🌲🌲🌲🌲❤❤
Thank you! You too!
Home made video cuts very impressive!
Thank you 😊
I have another fun one from Breaking Bad, outside though. Ricinus Communis, you can make Ricin from the seeds. In spring, when I will sow those, I have to scar the seed first and that's the part where gloves are my best friend
Ooo very good
I have a bit of a plant collection (containing some of these too) and thankfully, the only plant my dogs ever messed with was the nontoxic money tree. Even then they got over it after a while.
Phew
Thank you 🌹🐱
My pleasure 😊
I was lucky neither my son nor my dog at the time, ate my plants. My son wasn't a child that put everything in his mouth, didn't even like a soother.
The only one I worried about was the string of pearls because they really looked like peas and they would fall off and both the dog and my son ate peas.
The other one I really wanted was a Datura for outside it has the most beautiful huge white flowers and you can collect the seeds, but I wasn't comfortable with the death part if anyone put some in their mouth. So I passed on that one.
Funny, I still look up how toxic the plants are and I know I'm not going to eat them.
If you make mrs. Sheffield mad do check the peas in your plate. Don't worry they're supposedly only uncomfortable, not deadly.
Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the heads up!
I STILL want Datura plants! My kids are grown & gone, my cats & dogs have passed, so there's no-one to bother them but me! I wouldn't eat them if they weren't toxic! They're too pretty! Although, they might help w/ my rodent population who abandon the woods for my house when it gets too cold or too hot!! -- Did you know the Native Americans used Datura as an hallucinogenic for their Spirit Journeys & the shamans used it in not only ceremonies but as medicine as well? -- In my neck of the woods the white one's are called Angel Trumpets. Another, w/ dark purple flowers, I think goes by Devil's Trumpet! A third, Jimson Weed, readily grows wild here & teens (prob adults, too) have died by "experimenting" w/ Jimson Weed , trying to get an LSD-like "trip"! -- Bloo. I'd love to have one in each color, but at least the white & purple!
LOL! Too funny. I don't plan to nibble on my plants anytime soon but this information is so good to have and done in a very memorable way! You're the best!
Marvellous thank you!
My father once poked himself in the eye on a yucca plant when vacuuming and that was pretty bad lol
Oops 😅
Cracking me up❤
Watching this and actually having 3 of these plants next to me on my table where I eat and next to my bed xD
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Don't eat them. Don't smoke them.
I've always worried about poison plants. You've given a good list of some popular plants that can cause distress if eaten. I was surprised at some of my favorite plants being on that list. Have a blessed day.
Cool thanks!
Another common but slightly toxic plant is the common Ficus benjamina (weeping fig).
I would love to see a video on poisonous outdoor plants, like the daffodil for instance, and maybe one on poisonous holiday plants i.e. poinsettias. Just an idea. I am not sure how many holiday plants you're likely to find though. 🌿
My cat has been eating my Aglaonema. I found out its dangerous with those crystals. Thankfully she's had no symptoms at all. I've moved it way out of her reach.
Good save 👍
You've overlooked the common potato fruit that looks like tomatos. I've never tried them but I'm told they're quite toxic. Incidentally, I remember when you used to be able to buy potato flavored crisp made from potatoes. Nowadays most of what you can buy are different flavors -- some of them, pretty awful, and some them it's like eating glass. I suppose if they can add a flavour to broken up light bulbs they can pretty much achieve the same results. Anyway, interesting video.
I literally LOLed 😆 several times
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I do recommend processing your own aloe gel drink or salad if you need to prone. The texture is nice.
Oleanders are all over the sw USA. Great smelling flowers but such a dirty plant that you can’t kill in the end
Don’t think we have them here
Hi Rich, thank you for so much information. Thank goodness cat don't go here my plants. Please.keep doing great videos. My crown of thorn are growing beans flowers
Thank you! Will do!
You did not mention the effects the cactus (@ 8:54) has when ingested.
You do make me larf. Nearly choked on my coffee 😂😂
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I used your referral for the moisture meter. Only problem, it reads dry in most areas near the perimeter and moist or wet in a few spots near the roots. It’s a 6 foot BOP in a big planter. Should I water? 🤔Thanks.
If it’s dry in the bottom half then water
@@SheffieldMadePlants good thing I got the longer one, it’s a deep pot. Do you aerate with the moisture meter? Thanks!
@@capcom4eva yes sometimes if the soil is compacted
How long i can keep fertilizer mixed water in a bottle/watering-can? I use liquid micracle grow.
I keep mine around for a week or two until I use it all up
Aglaonemas also have calcium oxalate. I have over 30+ of these plants and am always careful when I cut them. By the way, mine are in LECA and are doing well so if you want to try LECA you can use an aglaonema plant to try it out! Merry Christmas!!!
Thanks for the tips!
What is LECA?😊
@@sandrawells7398LECA stands for Lightweight expanded clay aggregate. It’s a planting medium used for semi-hydro and hydroponics. Half of my houseplants are in LECA.
@@sandrawells7398 little clay balls used for semi hydro
I've got an aglaonema pictum tricolor, it was ok in the summer, but it's dropped all its leaves and gone dormant over winter. My house really isn't suitable to aglaonemas much as I love them 😞
But it's not dead, and is showing signs of breaking buds.
yup, I'll make sure I'm not going to chew on my plants :P Never thought about doing it but now...hmmm tempting :P
You could include the Madagascar palm if you redo this video. We took one over from a friend who got kids now. She got the plant from her dad. It was about 42years back then.
We had it in a safe spot where the dogs and cats didn't get to it. But after I scratched myself on it and ended up with 3 days of symptoms it went into the bin.
BTW your format is awesome!
Didn’t know about that one thanks 👍
I see you have a lipstick plant in your video. I have one it has loads of flowers but just before the flowers open they drop off could you tell me what I’m doing wrong.
Not sure what that would be. I’ve got this video that might help
My Lipstick Plant Constantly Flowers Now I Do This
ua-cam.com/video/IGHIRrpeGHc/v-deo.html
So my favourite plants are ok then. I've read you can even make jam from the fruit of one of them. The fuchsia. My other favourite is the calathea and one of mine is growing really really well ATM
Great stuff 👍
This is wonderful timing as I've just decided to get a cat after moving in February and I'm trying to figure which plants need to be hidden away from where the kitty can get to them! Thank you for the informative and as-ever hilarious video!
Perfect! 😁
Well don’t hide them away, and don’t put them on high shelves.
The cat will figure it out.
Teach your cat to stay away from your plants.
I did it for 20 years.
Easy as pie
@tompatchak8706 yes, ideally thats what I want, but learning takes time and im a first time pet owner so I dont want to risk them getting into anything that could hurt them. I have a room that has to be cat-free anyway, so I'll just keep them in there, there's plenty of light so they can continue to thrive 😉
You've probably heard this a zillion times already by now, but in case you haven't: Dumb Cane got that name b/c when it's ingested, the ulcers you mentioned & the mouth/throat pain inhibit speaking, thus Dumb (unable to speak) Cane (b/c it has a bamboo-ey looking stem/trunk.
Always good to get a reminder 😁
Who on earth would like to eat these plants? I never came to the idea nor my family members and acquaintances.
Regarding the name Dieffenbachia (dumb cane), I can enlighten you that the name (of a person after a place) Dieffenbach means deep creek in German and thus the Die is to be read as dee. The trivial name refers to the effect of the plant's juices when in contact with the tissues of the mouth. The tongue first goes numb then you get dumb. So they say. Best case is you get a coarse voice, worst case is you stop breathing.
Cheers!
Pretty much everything in the aroid/arum family are full of calcium oxalate, which is unfortunate since that's probably far and away the most popular houseplant family except for maybe cacti. This includes Diffienbachia, which got the name "dumb cane" because eating it will irritate the membranes in your mouth and throat badly enough that you won't be able to talk for a while.
Beyond that, plants in the same genus/family as each other usually have similar toxicity properties. The Crown of Thorns euphorbia doesn't look very appetizing but poinsettia and a bunch of other things are in the same genus, which the small mammals in your house are a lot more likely to attempt to eat.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Like the old way of referring to people who could not hear or speak as "deaf and dumb" where dumb meant they could not speak and had nothing to do with their smarts.
Where do you buy your plants from? I don't seem to find good plants in the shops and I am not sure buying them online would be a good idea either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I get them locally. I’ve got a nice nursery or even big box stores
@SheffieldMadePlants Thanks. I guess I will keep looking around
Sweet potato vine is a hallucinogenic to cats. I learned that the hard way...
What happened?
lol, I didn't know the Peace lily was toxic, but neither did I plan on eating it. :P I do know that the Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) is toxic though. It's also a kind of rubber plant. Lily of the valley? Pretty name. We have those in the forests here. I recall my mum telling me about them being toxic when I was maybe 5-6 years old. I was so scared of them, I haven't picked them since. XD Cyclamen are so hard to care for too. Not worth it imo. :P
Good job she did!
@@SheffieldMadePlants She sure did. :D
I'm not a goat to eat my home plants 🙂 Though high places, electricity and water are also very dangerous. Streets are full of possible death. How awful to live! 😃 Parents always have to watch after the children. Thanks god plants dont attack us. 😁
Some supposed healthy vegetables like spinach and swiss chard are very high in calcium oxalates.
The calcium oxalates tend to breakdown to some degree during the cooking process.
@Thi-Nguyen True. However, some people like me are very sensitive to oxalates so I personally avoid high oxalate foods.
i actually made some aloe juice today, i made sure all of the aloin/latex was drained out properly and wiped it off at the end, however the aloe vera gel in the drink was so biitter and i was gagging whilst drinking it, i think the aloe vera bits you get in the aloe vera juice at asian supermarkets has been fermented a bit to make it sweeter coz the juice i made was undrinkable
Doesn’t sound like my cup of tea
I was expecting Adenium obesum (desert rose) to hit the #1 spot, those things aren't to be messed with. How common they are/aren't might depend on where in the world you live though. Oleander was a good choice too.
Begonias are also in the oxalate crystal club. Not sure on the concentration or anything, but I keep them away from my cat just in case.
Oh my goodness! I just bought two. But my dogs gave not touched them.
Thanks for the heads up
Curious, something I used to do with my plants was to put fruit in the bottom of the pot when I repotted. I did this to add nutrients, but could this cause problems?
Did it attract flies?
I don’t think so no
@@Drumgobonk08 I’d avoid that personally
Is it true that you can tell if plants are not edible, by putting them to the edge of your mouth, or under your arm?
Not heard that
I have a question about my rubber trees they are young ones they are called moonshine there’s only six leaves on them they are in a 6 inch and one is it an 8 inch pot the new leaves are always stunted and small . The lighting is good I have them under 100 W LED light and they get bright filtered light from a southern window thank you
Was going to say light. Check out the roots