According to Wikipedia it is!
All parts of the tree are poisonous, the active poisons including saponins. Box fruits are potent enough to be used as a fish poison. The seeds are ground to a powder and used to stun or kill fish for easy capture, suffocating the fish while the flesh is unaffected. -Wikipedia
Jou Garden foto… het in my hart ingeklim. Min dat mens so ‘n groot stuk gras sien… lyk so rustig
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Dit was op my vriendin se plaas waar diie grasperk is! Was altyd rustig daar!
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Interessant van fish poison tree.
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Dit is ne?
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Beslisn nooit van gehoor nie.
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Het dit in Mauritius gesien, moes gaan oplees daaroor.
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Aha, dis hoekom dit so vreemd is. Kry mens dit ook in SA?
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Ek het dit nog nie hier raakgeloop nie.
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Very nice. Does the fish poison tree really poison fishes?
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According to Wikipedia it is!
All parts of the tree are poisonous, the active poisons including saponins. Box fruits are potent enough to be used as a fish poison. The seeds are ground to a powder and used to stun or kill fish for easy capture, suffocating the fish while the flesh is unaffected. -Wikipedia
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Pragtige groen … die kleur van lewe in die natuur. Pragtige foto’s – ek’s mal oor die Agapanthus foto, dis so mooi.
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Dankie Corna! Ek is baie lief vir groen! Die agapanthus blomme het so ‘n pragtige kleur!
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Wonderful
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Glad you liked it Yvette!
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☀️😊
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Lovely shots 🙂
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Thank you very much Charu and Ashish!
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😊😊
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