Wonders of Nature!!

The photo is beautiful Rajani!!

Today's Fact: Nutmeg is poisonous

Nutmeg is a hallucinigenic drug which is regularly used to flavor such lovely things as custard tarts and fruit cakes. It is also a poison which will kill you while you suffer a variety of extremely revolting (and one or two not-so-revolting) side-effects on the way. Ingesting 2 grams of nutmeg will give you similar feelings to having taken amphetamines (the not-so-revolting side-effect) but will also cause nausea, fever, and headaches. Ingesting 7.5 grams will cause convulsions, and eating 10 grams will cause hallucinations. Eating a whole nutmeg can lead to “nutmeg psychosis” which includes feelings of impending doom, confusion, and agitation. There have been two recorded cases of death by nutmeg (one in 1908 and one in 2001).

Thats really dangerous.. :ohmy: Thanks for sharing kalyani

Dont get fooled by pic..nice sharing kalyani

Babies are born without knee caps.They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Actaea pachypoda.

Well known as Doll's-eyes, White Baneberry
The berries are highly poisonous, and the entire plant is considered poisonous to humans.

A nice one Sudha!! The picture is so beautiful, one would be actually tempted to eat the berries! :) :) :)

Hoo Kalyani they look very beautiful..
But they were very poisonous berries.... :P :P :P

In the fifteenth century, roses symbolized two warring factions in England. Red roses symbolized the Lancaster faction while white roses symbolized the York faction. As such, the clash became known as the "War of the Roses."

A small Island that is pristine ~ where the water is so clear and the sand so soft and fine they massage you with it .....

You can walk for miles and there are barely any cars ~ you can travel by motorbike ...



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Growing high in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Columbine is a welcome reward for the enterprising climbers of Colorado's 14,000-foot high mountains. Picking one in the wild carries a fine ($5-$50 depending on the Ranger who catches you)!

Hmm...I have nothing to supply to this thread.The information are very very good.

Of course you do have Abid!! You are doing a Ph.D in physics, and so many of nature's phenomena are related to Physics. May be you could share some of them with us!!

On a good day and from a good angle it is possible to see more than one rainbows .. it's simply beautiful! My camera is not professional so did not do justice to its true beauty!

That is really good infomation from kalyani and sajeetharen..Keep sharing.

A ray of hope!

Wow!!!! that is really beautiful sajeetharan.. may be high quality cameras are used to capture the ray..or is it done by any software..

This is very good thread.All the information submitted are very interesting and good. Keep it up !

Rajani,

That was captured by using camera.

Beautiful Beach/Lake shore in Oshawa, Canada

A flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny. It is also called 'the poor man's weatherglass'.

This beautiful looking bug with the sunglasses is actually a crop pest. Known as cotton stainers, these bugs feed on cotton and get crushed with it during harvesting. Their red bodies leave stains, which are hard to remove.

There are two known poisonous birds namely the Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous, also called the "garbage bird") and the Ifrita (Ifrita kowaldi).. Their skin and feathers have some sort of toxins