Abrus precatorious seeds are said to be poisinous. Precatory-pea (Abrus precatorius) seeds contain a chemical called abrin, which is highly toxic. A single well-masticated seed can kill an adult human (Kingsbury 1964).
http://www.scib.gc.ca/pls/pp/ppack.info?p_psn=139&p_type=all&p_sci=sci&p_x=px the seeds look beautiful but should be kept away from children. regards Satish Pardeshi On Sep 16, 12:38 pm, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]> wrote: > The leaves are used in pan. > Seeds were used to weigh gold comes to about 1 gram. > > --- On Wed, 16/9/09, santhosh kumar es <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > From: santhosh kumar es <[email protected]> > > Subject: [indiantreepix:18465] Re: Abrus precatorius? > > To: "singhg ." <[email protected]> > > Cc: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>, "indiantreepix" > > <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, 16 September, 2009, 10:17 AM > > Dear all, > > > > Leaves of Abrus precatorius used medicinally for gum > > disesaes. Seeds used to weighing gold in ancient times. > > > > > Santhosh > > > 2009/9/16 singhg . <[email protected]> > > > Yes Garg ji, it is > > May be I will upload pods with seeds next month. It > > was flowering in Herbal Garden Delhi, last month. > > > > > > Gurcharan Singh > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, J.M. Garg > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On 12/9/09 in Butterfly Park within Zoo > > Park in Hyderabad. > > -- > > With regards, > > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > > Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, > > Butterflies, Flora etc. (arranged alphabetically & > > place-wise):http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > > > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google > > e-group- Indiantreepix:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > > -- > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > Department of Botany > > SGTB Khalsa College > > University of Delhi > > Delhi-110007 > > Res: 932 Anand Kunj > > Vikas Puri > > New Delhi-110018 > > Phone: 011025518297 > > > Mobile: 9810359089 > > > -- > > SANTHOSH > > ----------------------------------- > > > Dr. E S SANTHOSH KUMAR > > Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode > > Thiruvananthapuram-695562 > > Kerala, India > >www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com > > > Please consider your environmental > > responsibility:Before printing this e-mail, ask yourself > > whether you need a hard copy! > > See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out > Yahoo! Buzz.http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
