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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOleandrin: Trump recently hosted Andrew Whitney, who has a limited health background.
DisappearingHat RetweetedRead this report.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-struggled-summer-coronavirus/2020/08/08/e12ceace-d80a-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html
Link to tweet
doc03
(35,348 posts)come up with a new health plan tomarrow a couple weeks ago?.
malaise
(269,054 posts)It is extremely poisonous - both the leaves and flowers can kill you. My mom had two or three of them in her garden. They were used for funeral wreathes
Unlike some toxic plants, the oleander is poisonous to most animals as well as humans. A single ingested oleander leaf can kill a child. Ingestion of oleander results in diarrhea, vomiting, intense stomach pain, drowsiness, dizziness, an irregular heartbeat, and often, death.
Oleander is among the top 10 of all poisonous plants.
More here
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089829/
Is there genocide going on here?
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)decorate birthday cakes and poisoned children. I thought oleander was one of the Borgia's favorites.
Like with water hyacinths and pythons, someone thought it would be neat to perk up the area with foreign beauty.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleandrinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleandrin
Oleandrin is a toxic cardiac glycoside found in oleander (Nerium oleander L.).Along with conessine it is primarily responsible for the toxicity of the sap of oleander. Oleandrin has been used for many years in China and Russia for its properties as a cardiac glycoside, for both suicidal and therapeutic purposes as in treatment of cardiac insufficiency
They'll murder us all.
malaise
(269,054 posts)I hope someone blows this wide open