Review Article
Antibiotic, Pesticide, and Microbial Contaminants of Honey: Human Health Hazards
Table 2
Names of some plants whose nectar gives rise to toxic honey.
| Rhododendron ponticum (Azalea pontica) contains alkaloids that are poisonous to humans | | Andromeda flowers contain grayanotoxins which are psychoactive and toxic to humans (paralyze limbs and diaphragm and result in death) | | Kalmia latifolia, the calico bush, mountain laurel, or spoon wood of the northern US, and allied species produce sickness or death | | Wharangi bush, Melicopeternata, in New Zealand, produces toxic fatal honey | | Datura plants in Mexico and Hungary | | Belladonna flowers, henbane (Hyoscamusniger) plants in Hungary, | | Serjanialethalis in Brazil | | Gelsemium sempervirens in the American Southwest | | Tutu (Coriariaarborea), in New Zealand, produce tutin which is a member of the picrotoxin group of poisons | | Oleander in Mediterranean region | |
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