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Growing => Identification => Topic started by: Sunnybank on May 08, 2012, 07:05:57 pm

Title: what is this please and is this poisonous to sheep??
Post by: Sunnybank on May 08, 2012, 07:05:57 pm

Please can anyone tell me what this is please as we have several appearing around the edges of our field.

Title: Re: what is this please and is this poisonous to sheep??
Post by: Simon O on May 08, 2012, 07:10:45 pm

lords and ladies we called it - arum maculatum - poisonous to humans so presumably to sheep but v bitter so not much is likely to be eaten

Title: Re: what is this please and is this poisonous to sheep??
Post by: goosepimple on May 08, 2012, 07:42:45 pm

.....but don't be so sure, not after my sheep/rhodedendron fiasco...better out than in  ;)

Title: Re: what is this please and is this poisonous to sheep??
Post by: Sunnybank on May 09, 2012, 09:32:11 am

thanks Simon, will go out now and pull up what i find just in case. there was a couple of leaves in the part where the sheep were but they have eaten all around it,
so sorry to hear your story goosepimple, and as you say better safe than sorry.