The Terrorist’s Favorite Weed/ Castor Bean
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Article by: Thomas Ogren The Terrorist's Favorite Weed/ Castor Bean Thomas Ogren The Castor bean plant , FIRE PREVENTION CHECKLIST (Ricinus communis) with its large bold, highly colored leaves is native to tropical , Easy Rose Care Tips Africa. In cold , Easy to do Brick Molds climates it is an annual, , Easy Rose Care Tips growing , A Cost Effective Way to Keep Your Gutters Clean Year After Y quickly, setting many seeds, , Hummingbirds ... Attracting Those Little Flying Powerhouses and dying off in winter. , A Look at Electrician Training In mild winter , Easy to do Brick Molds areas it is a long-lived perennial, , Is there a leprechaun in your garden sometimes reaching small tree , Mosquitoes in Your Garden? Try Planting These. size. It has gone wild and naturalized in many places , The American Arborvitae Grows well in Allentown Pa. and is especially common in coastal areas. Each plant , The Nigra Arborvitae Grows Well In New Hope Pa. produces hundreds of the bean-like seeds , Bonsai Trees and these seeds , Advice about the latest and accurate help concerning aluminu can remain viable for more than a decade. Castor bean is a Euphorbia (Spurge) family member and like many Euphorbias it is poisonous, has highly caustic sap, and produces extremely allergenic pollen. Before World War Two castor bean was not common in the US, grown mostly as an unusual foliage plant , Blue Wild Flowers for Your Garden in a few gardens. , 6 Styling Tips For Your Fresh Cut Flowers! But during the war there was a need for castor oil and the government encouraged farmers in the Midwest to start growing , Advice about the latest and accurate help concerning aluminu large acreage of it as an oil seed , Urban Farming Even in Quakertown Pa crop. The first year it was grown not much happened but by the end of the second season , Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancien huge numbers of people living near the castor bean fields started getting hay fever and asthma. Castor bean pollen is an abundant and potent allergen. There is another more sinister use for castor bean. The mottled seeds , Bonsai Trees of castor bean, which are about the size and shape of large pinto beans, contain two powerful poisons, the alkaloid ricinin and the toxalbumin ricin. Ricin, a white , Hydroponics Gardening protein powder is a remarkably deadly cytotoxin. The poison in the seeds , Tips for choosing a landscaping firm is so strong that eating a single seed , Creating a Mood with Scents can kill a child. Animals, horses in particular, that eat the succulent , Eight Of The Most Popularly Used Softwoods leaves die from ricin poisoning. Ricin is even more toxic than strychnine and cyanides. Ricin also has the ability to accumulate in the body until a lethal dose is reached. Symptoms of ricin poisoning are stomachache, headache, fever, nausea and vomiting, bloody diarrhea, cold , Home Remodeling Business sweat, sleepiness, disorientation, shortage of breath, seizures, and death. Terrorists have long been enamored of castor bean and ricin. Modern day mad scientists can extract ricin from castor bean seeds. , 6 Styling Tips For Your Fresh Cut Flowers! Just how poisonous is ricin? Ricin is one of the most poisonous naturally occurring substances known to man. As little as one milligram of ricin can kill an adult. Assassination Georgi Markov was a Bulgarian journalist who had spoken out against the Bulgarian government. While waiting for a bus near Waterloo Station in London, in 1978, Markov was murdered, stabbed in the leg with a poisoned umbrella. A perforated metallic pellet stuck in his leg was found to contain the deadly ricin toxin. More recently it has been widely reported that Thomas C. Leahy, known by his neighbors as the "Mad Scientist," was producing ricin in his Wisconsin basement. , Creating a Mood with Scents Leahy, a high school dropout and self-taught chemist, had also tried to grow , Dill: The Most Important Culinary Herb in Scandinavia anthrax. Ricin if inhaled or even touched can kill in a day or two. Luckily for us, Leahy is now serving seven years in state prison for shooting and wounding his 13-year-old stepson. Going Native Castor bean plant , Creating a Mood with Scents spreads quickly because it has many built-in advantages over native plants. , Enhance Your Garden with Beautiful Edging A very robust grower, its leaves are poisonous even to predatory insects. Aphids that can safely feed on many other poisonous plants , Mosquitoes in Your Garden? Try ing These. quickly die after sucking the juice of castor bean leaves. But castor bean has one disadvantage. It is completely easy to recognize and can then be killed by chopping it down or spraying it with herbicides. I have long advocated eradication of castor bean because it causes so many allergies. It would be wise to realize too, that not only is castor bean pollen allergenic, but it is also poisonous pollen. Exactly what the effects of breathing in poisonous pollen are we don't know, but it cannot be good. Given the deadly potential of this all too common weed , FIRE PREVENTION CHECKLIST for bio-terrorists, perhaps it is time we have our state and federal marijuana hunting exterminators, shift gears and change , Beat the Weeds and Save Time in the Garden targets. They won't have to look hard. In California Ricinus communis can be found growing , 6 Steps to Prevent Mould in Your Bathroom lushly all along Highway 101. About the Author Tom Ogren has held many different jobs, including horticulture teacher in Watts, community gardening , Is there a leprechaun in your garden organizer for Cooperative Extension, brakeman on the Santa Fe Railroad, dairy farmer, boxer, landscaper, nursery owner, and free lance writer. |
  
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