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Texas Mountain Laurel Seeds
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Description

The listing, Texas Mountain Laurel Seeds has ended.

Hand Harvested
This auction is for one dozen red seeds.
These seeds are poisonous- Please handle with care, and keep out of reach of children or pets!!

This plant goes unnoticed for most of the year until it's purple blooms pops out of nowhere! It has fragrant flowers that smell a little like grape koolaid! But even without the flowers, this bush is evergreen endures our extreme sun, and heat. They typically grow quite slowly eventually reaching a mature
height of 15 to 20 feet and 8 to 10 feet wide.
Questions & Comments
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If the seed is poisonous...is the tree it self poisonous?
Mar 29th, 2012 at 8:10:08 PM PDT by
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The whole tree is poisonous, but the seeds more than the rest. This is what the books say about the plant:
Quinolizidine alkaloids are the toxic agents in mescal bean. Sheep and goats are poisoned under range conditions. Cattle are also susceptible, based on results from feeding experiments. Individual animals vary considerably in susceptibility. Sheep and goats fed toxic doses of about 1 percent of their weight in mature foliage were susceptible to attacks for up to 12 days. Whole seeds pass through the digestive system intact and harmless. Ground or chewed seeds are more toxic than mature foliage, which is considerably more toxic than young foliage.
I hope this answers your question.
Mar 30th, 2012 at 12:16:42 PM PDT by
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The whole tree is poisonous, but the seeds more than the rest. This is what the books say about the plant:
Quinolizidine alkaloids are the toxic agents in mescal bean. Sheep and goats are poisoned under range conditions. Cattle are also susceptible, based on results from feeding experiments. Individual animals vary considerably in susceptibility. Sheep and goats fed toxic doses of about 1 percent of their weight in mature foliage were susceptible to attacks for up to 12 days. Whole seeds pass through the digestive system intact and harmless. Ground or chewed seeds are more toxic than mature foliage, which is considerably more toxic than young foliage.
I hope this answers your question.
Mar 30th, 2012 at 6:44:45 AM PDT by

Texas Mountain Laurel Seeds is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category
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