This deadly plant, which is related to tomatoes, potatoes, and aubergines, is widespread throughout Europe, including Britain, North Africa, Western Asia, and the US and Canada.
One of the world's most beloved plants is also hazardous. The world's most frequently grown commercial non-food plant, tobacco, was used by 22.3% of the population in 2020.
Manchineel, the world's most deadly tree, is called manzanilla de la muerte, or "little apple of death" in Spanish.
Beautiful, sweet-smelling, and toxic. An expensive flowering plant known for its delicate aroma and connotation of love and happiness.
Another deadly but lovely flower is Oleander. Although Klimt and Van Gogh depicted its beautiful blossoms, this pink plant is poisonous.
The small beans of this plant are powerful. This climbing bean family (Fabaceae) plant, known as the jequirity bean, is native to Asia and Australia but very invasive in the Caribbean and USA.
The horrific name'suicide tree' makes it easy to see why this plant made our list. This tree, native to south and southeast Asia and Australia, produces othalanga, a heart-stopping fruit.
Hemlock water-dropwort, often known as 'dead man's fingers', has a horrific name and even scarier origin.