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klauer Crystal River, FL Sep 10, 2007

this is probally a stupid question, I'm interested in purchasing the poison arrow vine and i Have two small girls are they poisoious to the touch.

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kwanjin (Zone 7a) Sep 10, 2007

Klauer, if you mean the Night Jasmine, Cestrum nocturnum, then the sap and fruit are poisonous.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2128/

Hope this helps.

Kwanjin

P.S. There are NO stupid questions! LOL

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Sep 10, 2007

I don't think it's Cestrum nocturnum, for one thing it's not a vine. I have heard a plant called that but can't remember what it is off the top of my head. To make the poisoned arrows, they took some sort of extract of the fruits or leaves or something and put that on the tips of the arrows. Just touching the vine won't do anything to you (although if the girls would put plants in their mouths you may want to think twice, some if not all parts of the plant would be poisonous if ingested)

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kwanjin (Zone 7a) Sep 10, 2007

Okay. I've heard it called that before. The only other one is Strophanthus preussii.
Try Googling that one and see it's it's the right one.

Kwanjin

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