:Scillitoxin
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Scillitoxin (scillaine) is a chemical substance found in daffodils.{{cite web | title=Supermarkets told to keep daffodils away from fruit and vegetables due to poisoning risk | url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/supermarkets-told-keep-daffodils-away-fruit-vegetables-due-poisoning-risk-1487034 | last=Carty | first=Peter | date=7 February 2015 | website=International Business Times | accessdate=15 May 2017}}{{cite book|last1=Spoerke|first1=Susan C. Smolinske|title=Toxicity of Houseplants|date=1990|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780849366550|pages=172–174|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJbFsac0VwAC&q=scillitoxin&pg=PA3|chapter=Narcissus species}} It is a cardiac glucoside (a type of glycoside).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZpB2RsjAZhAC&q=scillaine&pg=PA181|title=Natural Sources of Flavourings|date=2008-01-01|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=9789287164223|language=en}} with effects similar to digitoxin.{{Cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/scillitoxin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326051451/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/scillitoxin|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 26, 2017|title=scillitoxin - definition of scillitoxin in English {{!}} Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English|access-date=2017-03-25}} The first, 1889, edition of the Merck Index lists: "Scilli-toxin (Scillain)" under the heading of "Squill (Scilla) preparations".{{cite book|last1=Merck|first1=E.|title=Merck's Index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts|date=1889|page=137|url=https://archive.org/stream/mercksindexoffin00mercuoft#page/136/mode/2up}} It was stated in 1929 that "Scillitoxin has not been chemically identified as a definite chemical entity".{{cite book|last1=Munch|first1=J.C.|last2=Silver|first2=James|last3=Horn|first3=E.E.|title=Red-squill powders as raticides|page=3|series=United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin|date=November 1929|volume=134|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJbFsac0VwAC&q=scillitoxin&pg=PA3|accessdate=15 May 2017}}