PBIO 004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sphagnum, Osmunda, List Of Poisonous Plants

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Plant Biology
• Course: PBIO 004
• Professor: Mary Lauretta Tierney

Document Summary

Indoor plants generally tolerate wider temperature variances than outdoor ones, especially if they are adjusted from a young age. Temperature ranges are cool (55 to 65 ), average (65 to 75 ), and warm 75 to 85 ) Types: (1) skin irritants (2) internal irritants (3) internal poisons, which cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Mainly a concern for children and pets (1) some toxic to pets but not humans. Awareness is the best prevention (1) call or go to the poison center and bring the ingested plant along (a) often stimulating vomiting is the most useful. Leaf descriptive terms: arrangement on stem: Alternate: not across stem from each other, alternate up the stem. Whorled: three plus leaves attached to the stem at the same point: location on plant: Rosette: all arising from the base of the plant at roughly the same point in order to form a rosette shape.