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Is Nai Habarala (Alocasia cucullata) a poisonous plant?

C D Goonasekera¹, V W Vasanthathilake, N Ratnatunga

¹Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology

|June 1, 1993

Abstract:

Nai Habarala is not documented as a poisonous plant. However, we report two cases of fatal poisoning following ingestion of its fruit. The clinical manifestations have a similarity to cyanogenic glycoside poisoning.

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