 Some conflicting evidence in respect of these suspicions has emerged from Australia (where the plant is sometimes known as "wild gooseberry"), in which the plant has been suspected, on rather vague evidence, of poisoning stock at various times, although a feeding test carried out in New South Wales using a sheep and a goat gave negative results.A case was reported from New South Wales in 1970 in which two crossbred ewes died, apparently as a result of consuming this plant.The animals had been left to graze in a paddock of Wimmera ryegrass heavily infested with "Nicandra physalodes" plants of around 60 cm in height, such that they overtopped the grass.