Remember the Nightshade?

 If you follow my blog you might remember the stunning Double Purple Trumpet that is in the deadly Nightshade family.   The pod above is what happened after it quick blooming.

 First a green pod

 then it sprouted little black nubby thingy's

 Then it literally exploded these seeds all over the ground, it has been putting out seeds for a month now and still has many pods on it.

the quote  Only the Good die young, fits the trumpet and the pencil cactus in below photo that I snagged from the Internet.. the trumpet spreads itself and so does the cactus and they are both deadly to animals and humans.

Internet Photo above, ours is GONE as of today

We found by accident we have a deadly plant in the yard since Hubby tangles with it 2 weeks ago. He had the weed whacker whacking  and got in the Pencil Cactus. That cactus has been there since 1990, when I brought home a piece I found laying on the ground. it has at times been taller than my head and has been moved twice. 

The weed eater hit a couple of pieces and slung the white milky juice all over Hubby's chest and arms. I was sitting here at the computer and he screamed in the back door, Bring Soap HURRY. I grabbed the Dawn and ran outside and he was dancing around and hollering and washing himself. We dawn soaped him, twice, i poured a bucket of warm vinegar water on him and handed him a Benadryl. we soaped again and he got the pool. he was in agony and i wanted to take him to the ER. he had raised welts and a rash that took 13 days to go away.
I Googled the plant and found it is deadly, eaten or the milky stuff and can blind if in eyes and even kill and has been used on the end of poison arrows. We are blessed it did not get in his eyes or that one of the dogs did not get in it. today he put on gloves and carefully removed it forever more.