LILY NOT HARMLESS
Depends On Amount (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, Dec. 23. Although “taking a nibble at an arum lily petal is barmless,” the National Poisons Information Service at the Dunedin Hospital has said the arum lily plant as a whole is far from harmless. Yesterday the centre was able to allay anxiety in Christchurch over a child who had eaten arum lily petals, but the casualty officer at Dunedin Hospital, Dr. N. North, said today it was wise to warn children to avoid Arum lily plants. The arum lily was a wellknown plant of which the baked and ground root was formerly eaten as Portland Arraroot. “But the juice of the whole plant is acrid and can cause diarrhoea and vomiting,” Dr. North said. "It must be noted that the bright red berries which appear on a naked stalk after the leaves have died down, fre particularly toxic,” he Baid.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30632, 24 December 1964, Page 3
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