Is it poisonous to place stinking begonia indoors?

Stinking begonia is a kind of flower with a bad smell. We can grow it indoors, but it will cause the indoor air to become turbid, so it is best to grow it on a balcony with good ventilation. Many friends with sensitive skin will experience allergic symptoms after coming into contact with stinking begonia, and its stench will make us feel particularly uncomfortable. It is also slightly toxic, but it can repel mosquitoes. Everyone should pay attention to its breeding environment.

It can be kept indoors and will not release toxic gases.

The stinking begonia flower is a harmless flower. The so-called stinking begonia is called this simply because it leaves a bad smell on your hands when you touch it. Its scientific name is Geranium. It can be placed indoors and can also repel mosquitoes.

Contact with stinking crabapples can cause itchy skin, and on the one hand, the so-called stench may make people feel that it is poisonous. In fact, stinking crabapple is only slightly toxic, and its smell can repel mosquitoes. If you don't touch it intentionally, there will be no smell. Its rhizomes are not edible and eating them will cause poisoning. The real scientific name is "Geranium". This is a flower named according to the degree of fragrance of the variety, called "stinking begonia". As its name suggests, this flower will leave a bad smell on your hands after you touch it. This flower is easy to grow and has a very long flowering period. Except for the coldest one or two months, the flowers bloom all year round.

The crabapple tree can reach 8 meters in height; the twigs are stout, cylindrical, with short soft hairs when young, which gradually fall off, and become reddish brown or purple brown and glabrous when old; the winter buds are ovate, gradually pointed at the tip, slightly pubescent, purple-brown, with several exposed scales.

The leaves are elliptic to oblong, 5-8cm long, 2-3cm wide, with short acuminate or obtuse apex, broad cuneate or nearly rounded base, margin with closely serrated edges, sometimes partially nearly entire, with sparse short soft hairs on both sides when young, falling off later, and old leaves are glabrous; petioles 1.5-3cm long, with short soft hairs; stipules membranous, narrow lanceolate, acuminate at apex, entire, with long soft hairs on the inside.