A plant to look out for

The Castor Oil Plant Grows in a lot of places over here at Almoradi
It is said that the seeds are Deadly The Castor plant is beautiful, but the castor bean seeds contain ricin, one of the most poisonous naturally occurring chemicals known to man. Even very small doses can be fatal.

I guess most of you know the story of the assassination of Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist. He died mysteriously while waiting for a bus near Waterloo Station in London, in 1978. The Scotland Yard postmortem revealed that Markov was murdered, shot in the leg with an umbrella rigged as a pellet gun. The perforated metallic pellet stuck in his leg was found to contain the deadly ricin toxin.
Full story including Video by the Poison Garden Centre, which explain the truth about the plant.
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