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Image JPEG image Hemlock growing next to cow parsley
This image shows two umbelliferous plants growing together. The one on the left Hemlock (Conium maculatum) with a Cow Parsley (Anthricus sylvestris) plant on the right. The leaves look similar although hemlock leaves have a slightly iridescent appearance. The difference in the main stem is very obvious. Hemlock has a smooth, hairless, pale green stem with red blotches. Cow parsley has a ridged stem that can be green to purple in colour.
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Image JPEG image Hemlock leaves
This image shows the leaves of hemlock (Conium maculatum). They are a brighter green than cow parsley and have an iridescent appearance. When they are crushed, they release an unpleasant mousy smell.
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Image JPEG image Hemlock plants
Hemlock may grow in clumps on roadsides, waste ground, field edges, path edges, meadows, and poorly drained soil near streams or ditches. This photograph was taken in a field next to a river near York in July.
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Image JPEG image Hemlock stems
Hemlock (Conium maculatum) is easy to differentiate from other umbelliferae plants by the red blotches on the smooth, hairless shiny stems.
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Image JPEG image Hemlock- cut leaf stem
The shape of the leaf stem is important to differentiate hemlock from other umbelliferae, such as cow parsley. The leaf stem of hemlock circular and hollow.
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Image ECMAScript program Nibbled foxglove leaves
These leaves of the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) have been nibbled by a young wild rabbit. It is not unusual for rabbits to taste plants and never try them again.
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Image Peace lily
The peace lily (Spathiphyllum) is a popular houseplant and is an example of one that is potentially poisonous.
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Image PS document Rabbit in buttercups
Buttercups are on many lists of poisonous plants because they can contain an irritant that can cause dermatitis in humans that handle buttercups and salivation, oral ulceration and gastrointestinal irritation in animals that eat them. Rabbits can eat small, young leaves that are growing in pastureland without ill effects. The mature leaves, tall plants and flowers are unpalatable, so they do not eat them. There are no reports of buttercup toxicity in rabbits.
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Image PS document Rabbit with snowdrops
This is a picture of part of my garden in when rabbits had free range access to it. The rabbits destroyed most of the plants, so the garden is now occupied by guinea pigs who are less destructive. The netting in the background was put there to protect the ivy that grows over the wall because the rabbits were chewing the stems. The snowdrops come up each year and the rabbits (and now the guinea pigs) leave them alone until the leaves die back when they eat the dried leaves with no ill effect.
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Image JPEG image Rabbits and houseplants
This is my conservatory that contains a wide range of houseplants. The plants are intended to be out of reach of the rabbits that live in there. Most of the rabbits I have kept have left the plants alone but there has been a wide variation between individual rabbits' appetite for houseplants. Some have jumped up to chew bark from the citrus trees, so leaf guards have been necessary. Some plants have been nibbled but most have never been touched. Over the years, many rabbits have lived in my conservatory and none have shown any ill effects from the plants. However, my rabbits are offered a wide range of edible plants. Fruit tree branches and hay are always available so there is no need to attack the plants.
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