20 Most Dangerous Plants In Your Home 

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I have never been tempted to eat any of my houseplants.

Its called dumb cane because eating a leaf will cause difficulty speaking and swallowing.

I'm a recent subscriber and I got to say I love your sense of humor. Being funny and informative makes a great video.

That fact that PEACE lily is TOXIC is like an underhanded insult

Few years ago when my partner and i went down the rabbit hole of indoor plants, we were surprised at how many plants were NOT pet safe furthermore the lack of any warnings on the labels.

I was grabbing food for DoorDash one day, and walking back to the car when a cluster of the most beautiful, pink-tinged white flowers tumbled across my path. Had to pick them up, because it almost seemed like the universe giving me a present. :P Turns out they were oleander, and no bad effects from touching the broken stem, but I've always kind of been in love with them ever since!

I love my houseplants especially my peace lilies. After listening to your warning about toxicity I will be rehoming them as my granddaughter has a learning difficulties and puts everything in her mouth. Thank you for this information.

Back in the 70s we had Oleander in our back yard, and us kids were told a cautionary tale of a family who went camping and used Oleander sticks as kebab skewers. I’m not sure everyone at the campout survived

Yesterday, my cat took a bite from my Azalea. So, I had to make a $100 phone call to ASPCA to find out if my cat was gonna be ok. She is fine, but I got rid of the plant.

Humour and knowledge ♥️ this is why I’m always waiting for the next video lol thank you for all your hard work

For preparing aloe, I have seen people peel the leaves, (I use a potato peeler) and you take the gel and soak it in cold cold water. You’ll see it turn yellow and you’ll want to repeat that process until the water is clear. I have only ever used it for topical purposes and it worked so much better for my sunburns than Alocaine. I would not suggest consuming it unless you really know for certain what you’re doing. Not all Aloe plants are equal!!!

Can I just say you’re videos are are so funny. I love your gentle sarcasm! Are you by any chance a teacher ? I would love to have you in my performing arts classroom with my students. You would be an awesome teacher especially when doing plays or films. 😂😂😂 Love your videos. Keep them coming !!

I believe this is the most exhaustive list with chemical and symptoms indicated on RU-vid. Thanks for all the effort. Only one I kept waiting for was foxglove, but not sure anyone brings them inside to grow. 😊

This show is very knowledgeable full of life saving information and as usual very funny. Like I have said before you should be a comedian. educational and funny.

Good video, this is actually the stuff I've been wondering ever since I started dealing with plants. Haven't seen a collective list of common poisonous plants at home. Another good list would be toxic plants at home. It's good to know which plants belong to which list and which are just generally safe. Funnily enough, anything worth looking is usually not good for people or animals.

Hi Rich. Hope you, your immediate family and your plant kids have a happy and healthy New Year🎉. Please continue giving us all the best videos ever. Best always, Billie from USA🤗😇😘

My crown of thorns are 5 years old and are beautiful. Wish we plant parents could send you pics of our success stories. My snake plants are 50 years old. I love my plant kids just like you. Thank goodness for your information. Stay well and keep up the good work😇😆

I brought my dad home to care for in 2020. I brought his 2 cats with us. They ate my peace lily to a nub. They also ate my palm and my dracaena to death. They were not effected at all and lived to be rehomed, i found out i was allergic.

Shamrocks/oxalis also have those crystals. Right now they're going into dormant mode for the winter, which is perfect. My squirrel (rescued in the fall, intended release in the sping) freaking loved both of mine. Thankfully they've died back, but she seems dead spent on destroying my raven zz. Not that she eats it. She keeps knocking the poor thing into the sink. Maybe she knows? lol

Merry Christmas 🎄 Mr and Mrs Sheffield!I love your work!Greetings from Maine

Before I had cats I bought plants and never bothered to check if they were toxic, NOW , I have cats and won’t buy a plant unless i google first. I do want to say that from what I have seen and read kalanchoa is a medicinal plant, very widely used in Mexico and Central America. There is even an organization dedicated to its medicinal uses.

The mother-in-law plant is called 'mother-in-laws sharp tongue' here 🤣 Good tips and warnings, thank you 👍🏻

Hahahaha always love watching your videos. You are so creative and it keeps me coming back. I don’t know how you do it but I thank you for your time and knowledge and commitment to this hobby.

Thank you, Charles! i knew about some, but not all. good to know and I shared the info. Happy Holidays to yall!

Hey thanks for taking my video suggestion. Like I said before lots of pet toxicity videos, lack of little one toxicity videos. Not every plant toxic to pets is also toxic to humans. Great video 😊❤

While taking a toxicology class on plants, I was left thinking "Wait, we have this at home." "This too!" "This one as well" Felt like I was playing a "Toxic Plant Bingo" or striking things off a checklist. Our garden has many of the plants on this list, plus some really toxic ones like Brugmansia.

Thank you.Appreciate your sense of humor and knowledge on it.

@7.35 Common Ivy together with Nettle and Holly are favourites for native insects and Butterflies such as the Holly Blue Butterfly.

Good info ... the discussion about the toxicity of these plants serve as a warning for us to be very careful in handling these plants ...

The video is an eye opener. I have some of these plants. Thank you. Again, enjoy the laughs 😄👍

Thank you for sharing! This has been helpful especially because I have maybe 80% of the plants you listed. My pup at home won't bother the plants but we have slowly acclimated some for our backyard outside (I live in Florida), and now keep a few indoors that are less harmful for my pup and the little humans in our family.

I rarely see Madagascar palms on these kinds of lists but itself is very dangerous because even simply touching the leaves of it for too long, can cause skin irritation. Its thorns (if I remember correctly) and the poison from it was used during Egyptian times for their arrows which is crazy!

most of the time your videos put a smile on my face ...... so thanks again ... have an awesome weekend

Happy new year Mr Sheffield 🎉🎉🎉!

You've overlooked the common potato fruit that looks like tomatos. I've never tried them but I'm told they're quite toxic. Incidentally, I remember when you used to be able to buy potato flavored crisp made from potatoes. Nowadays most of what you can buy are different flavors -- some of them, pretty awful, and some them it's like eating glass. I suppose if they can add a flavour to broken up light bulbs they can pretty much achieve the same results. Anyway, interesting video.

A few years ago I took a flower of an oleander bush and I drank just one droplet of nectar, it's something that I used to do when I was a child, I felt lightheaded for a couple of days and I had diarrhea for several days; I then searched about the plant and I found out it was an oleander, I have never felt so lucky yet so scared, my sheer naiveness could have easily killed me!!!

I knew about some of these & am glad to hear the rest! Oleanders are planted heavily in landscaping in both Florida & Arizona, so I'm well aware of them! (I'm sure they grow in a lot of places, incl South Georgia & the Carolinas, but I've never been at many of them long enough to know how wide spread! A funny-ish story: I read a novel a few years ago where someone picked up a stick to roast his hot dog on & he died. The stick was from an oleander that had been pruned. IDK if that ever happened in true life (but she got the idea from somewhere!), but it's good to know what kind of wood you're cooking with!

Thank you for sharing.🙏

Very interesting thanks😊

Thank you great information 👍 ❤

I’m so glad I watched your video! Had no idea about the aloe plant, mother in law tongue ( called snake plant here in Florida, USA, and particularly ivy and peace Lily…both of which our dachshunds seem to think are salads!1

I've seen drinks with aloe vera but we only kept the plant around for burns.

I was lucky neither my son nor my dog at the time, ate my plants. My son wasn't a child that put everything in his mouth, didn't even like a soother. The only one I worried about was the string of pearls because they really looked like peas and they would fall off and both the dog and my son ate peas. The other one I really wanted was a Datura for outside it has the most beautiful huge white flowers and you can collect the seeds, but I wasn't comfortable with the death part if anyone put some in their mouth. So I passed on that one. Funny, I still look up how toxic the plants are and I know I'm not going to eat them. If you make mrs. Sheffield mad do check the peas in your plate. Don't worry they're supposedly only uncomfortable, not deadly.

Great video 😊

New subscriber here. You are hilarious and educational. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 🙂

I have another fun one from Breaking Bad, outside though. Ricinus Communis, you can make Ricin from the seeds. In spring, when I will sow those, I have to scar the seed first and that's the part where gloves are my best friend

Thanks for a great video! I have a leaf nibbler too, but mine has 4 feet!🐈

5:56 Like it was a salad he got my dyin with that one 😂🤣 Bro you are hilarious this is very informative thanks

I love oleander. Here in central Texas it is one of the best performing plants during our hot dry summers

Cheers, Mr Sheffield!

🔛 this day Sunday morning. A reminder to all❣️

Great video!! 😺😻

I do recommend processing your own aloe gel drink or salad if you need to prone. The texture is nice.

5:07 wow! Nice garden !

I've always worried about poison plants. You've given a good list of some popular plants that can cause distress if eaten. I was surprised at some of my favorite plants being on that list. Have a blessed day.

love the information and you are quite the comic character :)

You are awesome, thank you

I have a bit of a plant collection (containing some of these too) and thankfully, the only plant my dogs ever messed with was the nontoxic money tree. Even then they got over it after a while.

lol, I didn't know the Peace lily was toxic, but neither did I plan on eating it. :P I do know that the Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) is toxic though. It's also a kind of rubber plant. Lily of the valley? Pretty name. We have those in the forests here. I recall my mum telling me about them being toxic when I was maybe 5-6 years old. I was so scared of them, I haven't picked them since. XD Cyclamen are so hard to care for too. Not worth it imo. :P

I would love to see a video on poisonous outdoor plants, like the daffodil for instance, and maybe one on poisonous holiday plants i.e. poinsettias. Just an idea. I am not sure how many holiday plants you're likely to find though. 🌿

Good morning to you vary nice plans they all so beautiful and amazing happy Christmas to you and the family lovely 🌲🌲🌲🌲❤❤

I love your channel. Period.

You could include the Madagascar palm if you redo this video. We took one over from a friend who got kids now. She got the plant from her dad. It was about 42years back then. We had it in a safe spot where the dogs and cats didn't get to it. But after I scratched myself on it and ended up with 3 days of symptoms it went into the bin. BTW your format is awesome!

Who on earth would like to eat these plants? I never came to the idea nor my family members and acquaintances.

Part two: How to deal with collapsed cabinets and toxic plants falling from the sky.

You've probably heard this a zillion times already by now, but in case you haven't: Dumb Cane got that name b/c when it's ingested, the ulcers you mentioned & the mouth/throat pain inhibit speaking, thus Dumb (unable to speak) Cane (b/c it has a bamboo-ey looking stem/trunk.

Home made video cuts very impressive!

Not a houseplant, but plenty toxic: rhubarb leaves. Calcium oxalate again.

Aglaonemas also have calcium oxalate. I have over 30+ of these plants and am always careful when I cut them. By the way, mine are in LECA and are doing well so if you want to try LECA you can use an aglaonema plant to try it out! Merry Christmas!!!

Watching this and actually having 3 of these plants next to me on my table where I eat and next to my bed xD

I'm not a goat to eat my home plants 🙂 Though high places, electricity and water are also very dangerous. Streets are full of possible death. How awful to live! 😃 Parents always have to watch after the children. Thanks god plants dont attack us. 😁

Thank you 🌹🐱

6:00 hahaha 🤣

Regarding the name Dieffenbachia (dumb cane), I can enlighten you that the name (of a person after a place) Dieffenbach means deep creek in German and thus the Die is to be read as dee. The trivial name refers to the effect of the plant's juices when in contact with the tissues of the mouth. The tongue first goes numb then you get dumb. So they say. Best case is you get a coarse voice, worst case is you stop breathing.

Side note: dont let any empty pots at pets and kids reach. They are called "pots" thats just 1 isotope away to turn into "pot-ion", that is as toxic as radioactive. Dont let your little homo sapiens, cats or dogs eat it.

Cracking me up❤

Pretty much everything in the aroid/arum family are full of calcium oxalate, which is unfortunate since that's probably far and away the most popular houseplant family except for maybe cacti. This includes Diffienbachia, which got the name "dumb cane" because eating it will irritate the membranes in your mouth and throat badly enough that you won't be able to talk for a while. Beyond that, plants in the same genus/family as each other usually have similar toxicity properties. The Crown of Thorns euphorbia doesn't look very appetizing but poinsettia and a bunch of other things are in the same genus, which the small mammals in your house are a lot more likely to attempt to eat.

I literally LOLed 😆 several times

yup, I'll make sure I'm not going to chew on my plants :P Never thought about doing it but now...hmmm tempting :P

You do make me larf. Nearly choked on my coffee 😂😂

Hi Rich, thank you for so much information. Thank goodness cat don't go here my plants. Please.keep doing great videos. My crown of thorn are growing beans flowers

Some supposed healthy vegetables like spinach and swiss chard are very high in calcium oxalates.

4:47 😂😂😂

I was expecting Adenium obesum (desert rose) to hit the #1 spot, those things aren't to be messed with. How common they are/aren't might depend on where in the world you live though. Oleander was a good choice too. Begonias are also in the oxalate crystal club. Not sure on the concentration or anything, but I keep them away from my cat just in case.

Most of these are indoor air purifier not for eating. As for pets keep all plants away.

Dieffenbachia is called dumb cane because it can look cane-like, when losing the lower leaves. But unlike sugar, it results in a swollen throat and tongue which makes it hard to articulate - so it makes you 'dumb'.

I used your referral for the moisture meter. Only problem, it reads dry in most areas near the perimeter and moist or wet in a few spots near the roots. It’s a 6 foot BOP in a big planter. Should I water? 🤔Thanks.

In German it is even called “Schwiegermutterzunge” which translates to “mother-in-law tongue”. Maybe that might bring us nearer to the origin of the name but I’m clueless too 😅

So my favourite plants are ok then. I've read you can even make jam from the fruit of one of them. The fuchsia. My other favourite is the calathea and one of mine is growing really really well ATM

Hi again. Never thought plants could be this dangerous. I have about 13 or 14 avocado trees and a (new) mango tree. My oldest avocados is 28, soon to be 29 months old. That tree is my favourite and most precious. But many of its oldest leaves shriveled up and even died. There is a lot of browning on a lot of its leaves, epecially the older ones. There is no yellowing though. The most worrying part is that my tree has stopped growing for at leat 4 months. It should grow despite the winter. The fallen off leaves feel mushy and soft. The soil smells so bad, I don't hate the smell too much, but it's worrisome. The tree's health has sigificantly deterioated. This information screams ROOT ROT, my plants' worst enemy, or my bad habbit of my watering my plants when they aren't really that thirsty. I used chopsticks to break up the soil on the top few inches and I utterly disappointed when I realised that if it wasn't for that stick for balance, my beloved the would have fallen and uprooted. There are few root beneath the soil line, most of which are thin, dried up and dead. There used to be fungus gnat larvae, but they perhaps hid or diminished.The browning on the leaves stops whenever I water my tree. The issue is kind of watering imbalnce, but leaning towards root rot. I'm going to prune my tree tomorrow, I don't want to repot it. By the way, you really shocked about your recent videos about diatomaceous earth. It was amazing!

I don't have a peace Lily! They consider living with me the death sentence

Plants can't run away from herbivores. Their defense is oxalates. I encourage you to read the book toxic superfoods by Sally K Norton.

i actually made some aloe juice today, i made sure all of the aloin/latex was drained out properly and wiped it off at the end, however the aloe vera gel in the drink was so biitter and i was gagging whilst drinking it, i think the aloe vera bits you get in the aloe vera juice at asian supermarkets has been fermented a bit to make it sweeter coz the juice i made was undrinkable

It's called dumb cane plant because back in the days when people would try to eat that plant, the sap provokes a swelling of the throat, resulting in speechlessness and people would think the ones who ingested some became dumb.

I’ve heard a shoe is also poisonous if you eat it… solution: don’t eat it!

You are funny, your gestures,!!!😂😂😂😂

I see you have a lipstick plant in your video. I have one it has loads of flowers but just before the flowers open they drop off could you tell me what I’m doing wrong.

And yet, another plant you CAN eat which you've got, is that lovely coleus. You can use them in limited amounts in salads, they have a herby, citrus taste, if somewhat bitter

My father once poked himself in the eye on a yucca plant when vacuuming and that was pretty bad lol