▲A small town in England is home to a garden that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Featuring over 100 different species of plants, this is not, however, your ordinary botanical garden: the plants here can actually kill you! Intrigued? Click through and peek inside the world's deadliest garden.

▲The Alnwick Garden is a complex of gardens around Alnwick Castle in the historic market town of Alnwick in Northumberland, England.

▲The Garden is home to the Grand Cascade, an enormous fountain containing 120 water jets.

▲At the Alnwick Garden, you'll also find one of the largest wooden treehouses in the world.

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Behind these gates, you'll find the Alnwick Garden's most intriguing tourist attraction.

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▲The Poison Garden was started in 2005 by Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland.

▲The Poison Garden was inspired by the Orto Botanico di Padova, a botanical garden in Padua, Italy.

▲Visitors must follow specific instructions when visiting the garden.

▲Visitors are not allowed to touch, smell, taste, or even stand too close to these plants.

▲Visitors can only go in as part of a guided tour. These have a limit of 20 people, so that the guide can supervise everyone.

▲Some plants are so dangerous that they're secured in cages.

▲Gardeners are specially trained to tend to the garden. They have to wear gloves and even masks when dealing with certain plant species.

▲This plant, commonly known as the castor bean or castor oil plant, contains the lethal poison ricin. It's one of more than 100 deadly species that can be found in the Poison Garden.

▲This highly poisonous plant also adorns the Poison Garden.

▲Commonly known as rue, this plant can give you a rash if you touch it.

▲Belladonna, also known as deadly nightshade, can also be found in the Garden.

▲All parts of laburnum, also known as golden chain or golden rain, are toxic.

▲Also known as angel's trumpets, these eye-catching flowers are, in fact, poisonous.

▲Hellebore is another beautiful yet toxic flowing plant that can be found at the Poison Garden.

▲Inhaling the pollen of this flower can be enough to trigger poisoning symptoms.

▲Also known as the Madagascar periwinkle, this plant is actually used in chemotherapy.

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Otherwise known as the strychnine tree, ingesting its seeds can have harmful effects.

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Euphorbia, or spurges, are highly toxic. Touching them can give you a nasty rash.

▲Also known as greater periwinkle, this plant has been used to treat low blood pressure.

▲The aim of the Poison Garden is also to create awareness of the dangers of illicit drugs.

▲Tobacco, which is used in harmful products such as cigarettes, is also planted at the Poison Garden.

▲Cannabis sativa plants are seen here at the Poison Garden. The warning sign is quite appropriate.

▲Coca plants are planted as part of the awareness against drug use.

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The plant, used as the base for the production of drugs such as heroin, can also be found at the Poison Garden.

Inside the world's deadliest garden

The Poison Garden lives up to its name

02/04/19 por StarsInsider

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A small town in England is home to a garden that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Featuring over 100 different species of plants, this is not, however, your ordinary botanical garden: the plants here can actually kill you! Intrigued? Click through and peek inside the world's deadliest garden.