![]() There is no proven treatment for monkshood poisoning. Muscle weakness, staggering gait, and eventually recumbency with inability to stand due to muscle paralysis. The fruits are follicles that split open at the ends to release the seeds.Įxcessive salivation and bloating may be seen in cattle Numerous stamens and 2-5 pistils are present in each flower. There are 2-5 petals usually concealed within the hooded sepal. The flowers are perfect, zygomorphic, with 5 sepals which are petal like, the upper sepal being larger and forms a characteristic helmet or hood. The flowers are usually deep blue-purple, but occasionally white or yellow, and are produced on simple racemes or panicles. Monkshood can however be differentiated from larkspur if the flowers are not present by the fact that the stems of monkshood and wild geranium are not hollow like those of larkspur. The leaves are alternate, palmately lobed or parted and similar to Delphinium spp. ![]() Perennial herbaceous plants with tall leafy stems growing to 5 feet tall. ![]() Although there is no extensive documentation of the toxic dose of monkshood, horses have been reported to be fatally poisoned after eating 0.075% of their body weight in green plant. All parts of the plant are toxic, but the roots, seeds and preflowering leaves are especially toxic. napellus) should be considered toxic to animals and humans. All species of monkshood including cultivated species (A. The alkaloids are similar to those found in Delphinium species and interact with voltage dependent sodium channels. Highly toxic, monobasic diterpenoid alkaloids including aconitine, mesaconitine, and hypaconitine form the principle toxins in monkshood.
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