Re: Toxicity of VFTs

From: schlauer@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 12:05:22 PDT

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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:05:22 +0000
From: schlauer@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Toxicity of VFTs

Dear David,

> I was reading an on-line list of toxic plants and saw good 'ol Dionaea
> listed as "toxic -- all parts". There were no toxins listed and no
> references. Does anyone have any further knowlege of this? Just
> curious; I'm not going to start putting them in my salads.

_Dionaea_ and many other members of Nepenthales (remember the
conference) contain the naphthoquinone plumbagin and derivatives
thereof. These are the main toxic principle in Droseraceae. Only in
Dioncophyllaceae and Ancistrocladaceae, the quinones are augmented by
naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, which are even more toxic.

Kind regards
Jan

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