NMoasis said: What does a, w, or h mean? If you have a serious unknown allergy to anything, you can get seriously ill. It doesn't have to be classified as a poisonous plant. It's only poison to you.

I also don't understand "you pays your money and takes your chances." Buying seeds for new garden crops? Yeah, okay, we all do that all the time. Randomly eating an unknown plant? No, that's just stupid.

Serious unknown allergy, hmmm, one can crawl into his/her rabbit hole, or one can live ones life in a manner that satifies one's life.
Paranoia strikes causes fear, fear kills.

I spent weeks in the hospital because of the unknown, would I change anything?
No , I have no rabbit hole to crawl into, nor do I want one.
I put my faith in God and keep on Truckin.

If you prefer, I will use the cliche, x, y or z.

Apologies if you thought I was arguing with you. I simply didn't understand what you meant.

I still don't.

He is telling you we all get smart(er) by living thru our mistakes, you have choices and can pick any of several things (x, y, or z....a, b, or c, etc, ad infinitum)- remember? more than one way to skin a cat...more than one way to leave a lover...more than one way to poison yourself. Not everyone reacts the same to the same plant, so it is always a toss up to what you gonna get.

It's going to take a few days for the Paul Simon song to get out of my head now.

Murky said: It's going to take a few days for the Paul Simon song to get out of my head now.

kittriana said: He is telling you we all get smart(er) by living thru our mistakes, you have choices and can pick any of several things (x, y, or z....a, b, or c, etc, ad infinitum)- remember? more than one way to skin a cat...more than one way to leave a lover...more than one way to poison yourself. Not everyone reacts the same to the same plant, so it is always a toss up to what you gonna get.

kniphofia said:
As an admin of a plant group on Facebook I'm well aware of the many hysterical over-reactions to a lot of toxic plants.

You should see the nutty things people post about datura!
Or... I guess that you do...

Thought this might give you all a laugh.😃