If you are a fan of having plants in your home and decorating the different spaces with them and their colors, this note will interest you because we are going to talk about the flower laurel, a plant that is very beautiful, but at the same time can be very dangerous. Pay attention to these tips that we are going to give you this Saturday so that you can put them into practice as soon as possible.
The flower laurel is a very rustic plant that can provide many benefits, for example, it can make your garden look much more attractive, eye-catching and can serve as a ‘windbreak’ on patios, terraces or in different large pots due to its shape. . However, even though this plant is very beautiful and striking to anyone’s eye, it can cause poisoning in both children and animals. if they are consumed by mistake.
Its scientific name is “Nerium oleander” and it is also known as “Flower or garden laurel”, “Oleander”, “Baladre” or “Triniraria”. Generally, the flower laurel is used in different public parks because it has an outstanding flowering, is very striking and can be seen in different colors such as white, pink, fuchsia. It is a very attractive plant and belongs to the “Apocynaceae” family, which adapts to both heat and drought, but in order for it to have good flowering it needs very good watering and also needs direct sunlight. The growth and development of the flower laurel is ideal for bringing, as we said, a lot of beauty to the garden and different green spaces. It reaches a height of 2 to 3 meters and can also expand two to three meters wide, but its leaves are poisonous and that is why you have to be careful when there are children or animals very close to it.
One of the precautions that must be paid attention to is that poisoning can occur accidentally and not only in children or animals that are near this plant, but also in people who may confuse this type of laurel for gastronomic use. , that is, to season a dish of food. This garden laurel is a shrub to decorate different parks, gardens, pots, but it should not be considered for human use, whether consumed raw or cooked – in an oven or pan – or as an infusion.
The components of this plant can cause poisoning and cause vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, increased urine production, arrhythmias, tremors, seizures and changes in potassium in the blood.
2023-11-25 17:31:04
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