Sometimes, the deadliest poisons are where you could least imagine.On a flower of your garden, on the leaf of that fruit that you have on the table, or on that medicine that synthesized otherwise, instead of giving you a great benefit, it could cause you an instant death .The deadliest poisons sometimes have kind and striking faces, animals that if you were to see them, maybe you would play thinking that something so beautiful doesn't have to be deadly, but you would be wrong, so what if we go over some of the deadliest substances on our planet?
1.The killing frog
The Embera tribe used them as a deadly weapon with which to spread their arrows, a poison that was printed for years in their rudimentary weapons.They had only to bring these beautiful frogs near the fire, so that they immediately began to sweat and secrete this toxin, Batracoxin, a toxic alkaloid or capable of killing 20 men or two elephants.And there is no antidote.Nothing.It is the most toxic poison of a vertebrate, it is very difficult to be able to get out alive.
2.Venom in your lips and breasts?
Have you heard of botulinum toxin? It is a neurotoxin so lethal that, with just over 400 grams, it could eliminate all the inhabitants of the planet.Simply terrifying.
3.The oleanders of our garden
You may be afraid of living nearby from a nuclear power plant, but you should also have it if in your garden, you have some precious oleander.They are the most poisonous vegetables that are known, and yet it is what most decorates the gardens of cities and houses.And what kind of poison do these plants have? Well, they are very toxic forms of glucosides that if ingested, or even if they inhale when burned, cause heart failure.And remember...Their seeds are equally lethal, since they have another toxic element called 'ricin'.
Image: Zakery Lee, Jo Jakeman
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