I would like to describe an incident in hopes that it will protect some children. A young lady and her two boys came in the door carrying a branch. This is a common occurrence because bringing in a branch is the best way for us to identify insect and disease problems. At first glance, the branch looked free of problems, and that is when the mother mentioned that one of the boys had been eating the berries.
She wanted to know what kind of plant it was and whether it was poisonous. These were not easy questions to answer since little is known about the poisoning ability of most plants, and there were a couple of possibilities as to what her plant actually was.
