Coralbeads, Cocculus carolinus, is one of the
most toxic plants in Alabama.Then common name refers to the red berries
with a bead like pit where ingesting only a few is sufficient to be a fatal dose
for an adult.Superficially the vine
looks like a greenbrier, Smilax, except that coralbeads is spineless and apparently herbaceous
since dying back to the ground each winter.
