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the sundew plant


Question
hi i was wondering can the jell substance on the plant can kill or harm people?

Answer
Can the "dew" of a sundew harm or kill human beings? This is an easy question to answer: I have no idea. I doubt that anyone has ever ingested enough to kill him- or herself (I'm sure they would stop short of that if they knew it was hurting them), and I doubt that many people have been inclined to eat some of the sticky goo just to see what happens. On the other hand, when I was young I tasted some of the poisonous milky sap from a taro leaf stalk (I didn't know it was poisonous) and ended up with a painful mouth and tongue and a throat almost swollen shut making breathing very difficult, so some people do the darndest things!

But to find better answers, I would check with dedicated sundew growers in one or more of the Internet carnivorous plant forums such as those below.

CPUK Forum
http://www.cpukforum.com

FlytrapCare Forum
http://www.FlytrapCare.com/phpBB3/

Thank you for your question. It's actually a very interesting question, and I wish I knew the answer.

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