et al., 2000; Gaillard and P´epin, 2001; Gaillard et al., 2002).
Cases of death caused by plants are certainly rare, but the
example of Cerbera odollam (50 deaths on average a year
recorded in the Indian state of Kerala alone) shows that such
fatalities can be underestimated or unidentified due to the lack
of analytical investigation as well as the lack of knowledge
on the part of medical investigators.
In cases of homicide by poisoning, biological