Poison sedge and cyanogenesis

Authors

R D. Royce, Department of Agriculture

Keywords

Western Australia, Poison sedge, Cyanogenesis, Carnamah

Disciplines

Plant Sciences

First Page Number

84

Last Page Number

87

ISSN

0021-8618

Abstract

During the afternoon of April 14 of this year, a flock of 800 sheep on a property in the Carnamah district was turned into an old stubble paddock which had been spelled for two months, after having carried the same sheep for the previous paddock, death having apparently occurred suddenly and without any struggling.

The rapidity and severity of the losses, together with the lack of observed symptoms, suggested that the trouble had been due to a cyanogenetic plant (a plant capable of killing stock by the liberation of prussic acid after ingestion.)

Recommended Citation

Royce, R D. (1952) "Poison sedge and cyanogenesis," Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3: Vol. 1: No. 4, Article 12.
Available at: https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture3/vol1/iss4/12