Poisonous Gifts for Xmas

As if to underline my recent article in the ACJ journal, Findings, about the dangers of using found items in jewellery, the Daily Mail today has a piece on poisonous seeds being sold as gifts for Christmas.

Pretty things, in nature, are often dangerous. The seeds in question are brightly coloured red-and-black, half-and-half.

Red is nature’s danger sign. It says, “Don’t mess with me.”

This is what the seeds look like:

This is what they can do:

The symptoms of poisoning are acute gastroenteritis with vomiting, diarrhea, shock and potentially fatal kidney failure.

Nasty things. Get rid of them if you have any, and watch how you deal with them.

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