User:Indeterminate/Fish poison

=Typical toxins= Saponins - a class of soapy glycosides. article includes a list of plants containing saponins.

Rotenone - an isoflavone and common pesticide/insecticide. somewhat toxic to mammals, probably not healthy to use.

=List of Plants Poisonous to Fish=

United States
Juglans nigra - Black Walnut / American Walnut

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus - (Symphoricarpos) Coralberry

Aesculus hippocastanum - Horse Chestnut

Phytolacca americana - American Pokeweed

Eremocarpus setigerus/Croton setigerus - Turkey Mullein / Doveweed

Aesculus californica - California Buckeye

Chlorogalum pomeridianum - Wavy-leafed Soap Plant

Apocynum cannabinum - Dogbane / Indian Hemp

Arisaema triphyllum - Jack-in-the-pulpit / Wild Turnip

Marah fabaceus - California Manroot

South America
Agave lechuguilla - Lechuguilla

Sapindus drummondii - Western Soapberry

Ungnadia speciosa - Mexican Buckeye

Jacquinia sprucei

Tephrosia toxicofera - (Tephrosia)

Lonchocarpus nicou - unlisted Lancepod species

Minquartia guianensis - Black Manwood

Euforbia cotinifolia - Red Spurge

Pacific Islands
Tephrosia purpurea - (Tephrosia) ʻAuhuhu

Wikstroemia - ʻĀkia or false ohelo. Several species. See Wikstroemia oahuensis.

Barringtonia asiatica - Fish Poison Tree

Australia
Duboisia hopwoodii - (Duboisia) Corkwood Tree

Indigofera australis - Austral Indigofera

Acacia ditricha - (syn. Vachellia ditricha)

Barringtonia racemosa - (Barringtonia) Sea Poison Tree

Barringtonia vitiflora - ?

Acacia holosericea - (subgenera Juliflorae) Fish Poison Wattle / Soapy Wattle

India
Pongamia pinnata - Indian Beech Tree / Pongam Tree

Anamirta cocculus - Fishberry

Asclepias curassavica - Scarlet Milkweed

Africa
Euphorbia tirucalli - Indian Tree Spurge, milk bush

Prosopis africana - Prosopis

=from fishing techniques=

Korkat (unknown Olax species)

Careya arborea - Kumbhi

Cleistanthus collinus - (Euphorbiaceae family)

Lannea coromandelica - (Anacardiaceae family, Lannea genus)

Costus speciosus - Crape ginger

Madhuca indica - Mahua tree

Pterocarpus marsupium

Chloroxylon swietenia

= See Also =
 * Piscicide
 * Fishing techniques

= References =
 * http://www.primitiveways.com/fish_poison.html