Dichapetalum cymosum

Dichapetalum cymosum, commonly known as gifblaar in Afrikaans or occasionally by its English translation, poison leaf, is a small prostrate shrub in the family Dichapetalaceae, native to northern parts of Southern Africa. It is notable as a common cause of lethal cattle poisoning in this region and is considered one of the "big 6" most toxic plants to cattle in South Africa. A 1996 estimate of plant poisonings in South Africa attributed 8% of all cattle mortality caused by poisonous plants to gifblaar. The majority (70%) of fatal cases are in Limpopo province, with 10% each in North West, Mpumalanga, and Gauteng. The primary toxic principal is fluoroacetate, used to synthetically produce the mammal poison Compound 1080, and occurs in all parts of the plant. Symptoms of gifblaar toxicity include vomiting, seizures, and an irregular heartbeat, and death can occur in as little as a few hours. This poison is known as "the poison that keeps on killing" because the toxin stays in the body a......read more on Wikipedia.