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Guest andrew*

i was wondering are there any cacti that anybody *highly* recommends staying away from?

i dont feel like killing myself : )

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The really spikey ones (they hurt)...

and maybe the really big ones, just in case they fall over https://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://www.shaman-australis.com/ubb/wink.gif&key=4919fe9fb0297038d452b640b095bc279f8cc68a37fc8152fee24836b0d8f0df

Seriously, I would be interested in this question too. Aren't there cacti with quinolizidine alkaloids that could be rather unpleasant?

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Carnegiea gigantea has not been reported to contain macromerine as far as I know. It does contain carnegine, salsolidine, gigantine, dehydrosalsolidine, heliamine, 3,4-dimethoxyphenethylamine and traces of dehydroheliamine, arizonine and 3-methoxytyramine. The carnegine content makes this plant potentially troublesome as this is a convulsive poison with an LD50 in mice of 15 mg/kg.

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