Poison oak and castor bean plants are present in the wild, rural, and semi-wild sections of the city . palm trees, which are home to many barn owls, exist near the beaches.
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Ricin, derived from the castor bean plant, is one of the world's deadliest toxins and has been linked in the past to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network and to Iraq.
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Court also warned of the rise in the possibility of " kitchen table terrorism, " citing the production of ricin, a toxic substance that is derived from the castor bean plant and can be produced at home.
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Zenimura Field is now an olive orchard, but in the minds of some of those who played there, the grass is still green, the castor bean plants are flourishing and Kenichi Zenimura is sifting pebbles out of the infield, plotting improvements.
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At the Cugliotta Nursery, gardeners couldn't resist sprouting a veritable forest of 16 castor bean plants _ four feet tall and just as wide, with star-shaped leaves two feet across _ just to show, maybe, that old-timers can be showstoppers, too.
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I planted it about six feet from a crape myrtle that was the centerpiece of my kitchen garden before it died in last winter's freeze . ( I was glad, really, because the eight-foot shrub had blocked a striking view of the rolling fields . ) And as the summer progressed, my little castor bean plant, Ricinus communis, burgeoned, almost frighteningly, like some teen-ager on too much steak and milk.
