Dicksonia antarctica fronds toxicity, how do you handle?

[cordyman]

I remember reading on here they are toxic, and a carcinogenic?




Removed today with long handled loppers and straight into recycling bin, just in case. Does my above pic have any spores on, it was the darkest undersided frond I removed.

[Tom2006]

No its during the winter that the spores shed they are like dust yours looks fine.

[Dave Brown]

I remember reading on here they are toxic, and a carcinogenic?

Removed today with long handled loppers and straight into recycling bin, just in case. Does my above pic have any spores on, it was the darkest undersided frond I removed.

You remind me of Nicole Appleton on Celebrity Jungle.... "OMG, I just touched a tree "


Best not going in a garden with Cycas revoluta or Brugmansia, or Foxgloves, or......

[multim]

Or walking in the woods where bracken is growing e.t.c, e.t.c.

[fern Rob]

My garden must be deadly .

[greyhound]

Hope you are joking Cordy.I have just brought my two potted 5 footers inside for the Winter and put them in my office

[Dave Brown]

Hope you are joking Cordy.I have just brought my two potted 5 footers inside for the Winter and put them in my office

If you go around snorting the undersides of the leaves everyday, you could get a problem.

When I cut the fronds I bash them about to ensure any spores have been released onto damp soil then shred the fronds as a mulch to put around the base of the Dicksonia antarctica

[bordersboy]

Im getting some strange looks from my neighbours over the fence as I tend to my ferns in my orange biological weapons suit

[Conifers]

Safe, as long as you don't eat the plant, or snort the spores.

[cordyman]

No its during the winter that the spores shed they are like dust yours looks fine.

cheers!

[cordyman]

I remember reading on here they are toxic, and a carcinogenic?

Removed today with long handled loppers and straight into recycling bin, just in case. Does my above pic have any spores on, it was the darkest undersided frond I removed.

You remind me of Nicole Appleton on Celebrity Jungle.... "OMG, I just touched a tree "


Best not going in a garden with Cycas revoluta or Brugmansia, or Foxgloves, or......

I had a cycas, currently have brugs and foxgloves, but none of those give off airborne carcinogens?

also none of those i'd ever take so much greenery off and lop smaller to put in recycle bin.

That makes Dicksonia antarctica pretty unique in that sense, even more so when most people leave the fronds on till later in the year, when they do bare spores, then start removing/handling, and if there are as many spores as i'm led to believe I reckon they'd be very easy to inhale.

Not a major worry but certainly something to be aware of

[cordyman]

Safe, as long as you don't eat the plant, or snort the spores.

cheers

[fern Rob]

I read somewhere that you can eat tree fern croziers.

[Tom2006]

I realised far too late last winter as I had been inhaling spores for weeks in my poly house. Once I did realise I just sprayed yhe fronds first to stop the spores going air Bourne. I dont think id want to eat them.

[Dave Brown]

I had a cycas, currently have brugs and foxgloves, but none of those give off airborne carcinogens?

also none of those i'd ever take so much greenery off and lop smaller to put in recycle bin.

That makes Dicksonia antarctica pretty unique in that sense, even more so when most people leave the fronds on till later in the year, when they do bare spores, then start removing/handling, and if there are as many spores as i'm led to believe I reckon they'd be very easy to inhale.

Not a major worry but certainly something to be aware of

We'll have to see if all the Botanical gardens rip them out, as many are in huge greenhouses where public visit. If they are as dangerous as you believe, they will all disappear.