Plant-Lore

Collecting the folklore and uses of plants

Oleander

1.  Very poisonous.  A traveller in Australia told me it was used as a means to [catch] fish by throwing it in the billabongs.  He said the flesh was not tainted by the poison [Natural History Museum, London, May 2017].

Image: cultivated, Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany; June 2017.