Attention Floral Handlers: Poison Dart Frog Found In South American Flowers
October 22, 2010 | 1 min to read
A florist has found a poisonous frog from South America while unwrapping a bunch of foliage. The amphibian survived being packaged in cellophane in Colombia, shipped across the Atlantic and enduring a stop-over in Holland.
Ruth Marriner then discovered it peering out of some tropical foliage that had been delivered to her shop in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Believed to be a poison dart frog, it is now being housed at Blackpool Zoo.
The tiny brown and yellow frog, which is about 3cm (1.2in) long – about the size of a 50p coin.
Investigations to ascertain the exact species are currently being carried out, but some experts believe it could the phantasmal poison frog – the most deadly of its kind.
To read the rest of this story please go to: BBC