What is the toxicity of Sambucus nigra leaves, shoots and roots? Is the amount of cyanogenic glycosides in a given speciman variable?

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Arvind Singh

All part of the plants are poisonous except flowers and ripe fruits. The poisonous nature of plant is due to presence of cyanogenic glycoside ' sambunigrin'.

Syed Abbas Jafar

Alison:

You may like to have a look at this link for important insights about this plant:

http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Herbal_-_HMPC_assessment_report/2013/04/WC500142245.pdf

Best

Syed

Alison,

Please go through this extremely useful PDF attachment also.

Good luck

Sahar A. A. Malik Al-Saadi

This link useful :

http://www.sacredearth.com/ethnobotany/plantprofiles/elder.php

Anil Kumar Thakur

This link can be helpful.

http://normsfarms.com/are-elderberry-bushes-poisonous/

One more useful link

http://www.pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?LatinName=Sambucus+nigra

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