MONEY plants can survive "anything and everything". You can water it too much or forget to water it for weeks; it will survive. Even if you give it no fertiliser at all and not enough sunlight, it will still survive. However, if you (or your kids or pets) were to consume a money plant, would you survive?
Are money plants dangerously toxic?
Verdict:
FALSE - but it is mildly toxic
Millions of people grow them in homes and offices to add a touch of greenery, and even those who confess they can grow nothing can successfully keep money plants alive and thriving.
Keeping a money plant is said to bring you good luck and wealth but every now and then, someone you know might share some scary "facts" about the plant.
They say money plants are "extremely poisonous", "highly toxic" or any combination of "doomsayer" words.
The list of supposed or possible casualties usually include toddlers and the family cat or dog.
These dire warnings are enough to frighten newly ordained mothers into eradicating every money plant flourishing quietly beforehand in their living rooms out of fear that when their child starts walking, he or she will scamper to the plant, eat it and die.
According to a 2014 scientific research published in the International Journal of Green Pharmacy, the toxicity level is mild to moderate.
"Symptoms include burning and swelling of lips, mouth, tongue and throat,also diarrhoea whereas skin irritation occurs from frequent contact," the scientists from Banasthali University, India, ascertained.
This is because all parts of the plant contain calcium oxalate, an irritant that will cause allergy reactions.
While care should be taken so that toddlers and pets do not get a needless lesson, the plant is far from being potentially fatal, and the sap is too distasteful for enough to be ingested to cause serious problems.
Reference:
1. https://greenpharmacy.info/
2. https://www.fnp.com/blog/10-
3. https://www.thehealthyjournal.
