BP still has scratches on belly why?

[Bogertophis]

Do you happen to have a link to or title of that study? I'd like details on this.

A DDG (DuckDuckGo, my go-to search engine) search for 'artificial plants lead' found only one remotely relevant link on the first two pages of hits (https://rtkenvironmental.com/healthy...ristmas-trees/) but it is a commercial site and the links it contains are of questionable quality. Google found this (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15628192) which only talks about PVC Xmas trees.

A DDG search for 'plastic plants lead' found only one relevant page (https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/preven...r-products.htm) that calls into question all plastic products, not just plants. Google found that same NIH study I linked above.

A Google scholar search for those two phrases came up empty on the first couple pages of results.

A little poking around suggests that while some fake plants are made of PVC, others are made of polyethylene or polyester (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...t-fake-plants/). Apparently lead might be used to soften PVC; happily, it seems not to be used in PVC foam sheets (https://www.acmeplastics.com/expanded-pvc-foam).

Not off-hand- & when I first came across that, I shared it here on this site. It's been quite a while- anyway, the lead was mostly manufacturing dust from the pliable wires used inside the plastic leaves- & the fact that little kids like to touch things & then stick their fingers in their mouths (or eat with their fingers, hands unwashed), so thoroughly washing the fake plants would help that.

My more immediate concern would be when leaves come off & the sharp wires get exposed, & snakes can can injured on those. That's what I suspect occurred with the OP's snake, from the description given. Without even seeing the snake in question, this was just my "brain-storming" & trying to solve the mystery.