important! a child at my school just injested some perrenial sweet peas. We need to know if that is poisonous. I can tell that it has some toxic qualities, but how serious is it?

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2002

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Hello Jenny,

As this forum is a public forum, monitoring is basically done when times are slow. I hope that everything turned out fine with your incident.

This post is more for future visitors. I found this web site useful:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Lathysp.htm

Basically, it confirms that there is a toxicity issue, but it sounds like you have to inject a lot of seeds to be in danger.

Regards,

Mike

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2003