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Children are playful and may easily bring poison home. Beware of accidental ingestion and poisoning.

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Many people love growing flowers; they love the feeling of caring attentively for plants, and they also love the comfort and happiness of watching plants grow day by day. That's right, growing flowers can truly cultivate our character and purify our souls,...

Many people love growing flowers; they love the feeling of caring attentively for plants, and they also love the comfort and happiness of watching plants grow day by day. That's right, growing flowers can truly cultivate our character and purify our souls, allowing us to handle anything calmly, without impatience or agitation.

People who grow flowers come from every age group and every walk of life. Some have loved flowers and plants since childhood, while others have been growing flowers for decades, and all of this is because of love! After growing flowers for a long time, you want to grow more. At first you just want to grow something you have never grown before, to try something new. Gradually, you want to grow plants you have never seen or grown, something a bit different, and this is probably the desire for novelty that many people have.

Huahua understands, but there is also something Huahua wants to tell everyone to pay attention to. It is fine to love growing unusual and distinctive flowers, but by no means should you grow poisonous plants, or plants that can harm your health.

Huahua recently learned of a plant whose seeds are highly toxic. If eaten by mistake, they cause poisoning and are very dangerous. This plant is the castor bean.

When castor bean is mentioned, you may not be familiar with it and feel it is far away from you, so it will not harm your health. Wrong! Castor bean is very common in the countryside. Because its seeds have many barbs, children who often run around and play wildly in the fields may easily brush against castor bean seeds, and just like that, the "poison" is brought home.

Children do not know what this thing is, and may very well put it in their mouths. Fellow flower growers must pay attention and remember to warn your own children: if you come across this kind of seed with barbs, do not touch it, throw it away directly, otherwise eating it will cause poisoning!

Castor bean seeds contain ricin and ricinine. If a person eats them by mistake, it will cause symptoms such as dizziness, vomiting, and fever, which are signs of poisoning. Children's immunity is not as good as that of adults to begin with. If they accidentally eat castor bean seeds, the reaction will be more severe than in adults!

For the sake of your own children's health, you must teach your little ones that castor bean is poisonous and must never be touched!

Friends who love growing flowers must do their homework before growing a plant: know what habits the plant you want to grow has, and by the way learn about its background information. This will not only let you have a deeper understanding of the plant when you grow it in the future, but also effectively avoid the possibility that what you bring home is a "poison," greatly reducing safety risks for your family!

I hope the poisonous plant Huahua has reminded everyone about today will stick in your memory, and that in the days to come you will avoid having anything to do with it as much as possible!





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