A person is surrounded by a huge amount of vegetation, including useful, harmful, dangerous, and poisonous species.
Science and medicine have advanced far, but unfortunately, not all natural poisons have yet been treated with an antidote.
The most poisonous plant in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the castor oil plant.
It is also the castor tree, which grows in North and East Africa.
It reaches 8-12 meters in height, but due to unfavorable climatic conditions it can grow no larger than a bush.
However, this does not make it any less dangerous.
At the same time, it is quite attractive. Beautiful leaves up to 30 centimeters long resemble a houseplant.
And after flowering, seed pods appear, in which the seeds ripen.
Using special technologies, castor oil is prepared from them.
And these same seeds contain a poisonous substance that poses a mortal danger not only to humans, but to any living organism.
This substance is ricin and there is no antidote for it.
However, ricin can only be obtained in pure form in laboratory conditions.
