Northeast Gardening: What did you see on your walk?, 1 by DonnieBrook

DonnieBrook wrote:
We passed this cardboard fern with its lethal pod of red berries on our walk this morning. Awhile back on one of the threads I mentioned that someone had given me some cuttings of this interesting tropical plant, and I planted them, but then pulled them all out once I learned how deadly these red berries are for dogs. Someone on DG posted that she had bought a house with these plants in her pool cage, and her two healthy dogs had ingested the berries and both died from multiple organ failure. That did it for me! But look how unusual this pod of berries is!