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Help or Advice >> Fruit, Nuts and vegetables >> tough plants http://www.tortosaforum.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1173003083 Message started by terraalta on Mar 4^th, 2007 at 11:11am

Title: Re: tough plants
Post by hazelnut on Oct 1^st, 2008 at 9:18am

wrote on Aug 18^th, 2008 at 10:20pm:

Personally I would not allow a castor bean plant anywhere near the house or where small children are going to play as the seed pods are extremely poisonous. They are the source ricin, which Agatha Christie used to great effect in some of her novels.

Yes Tony exactly why we planted them, nice and poisonous