December 4, 2006
Sometimes, trees are not benign. The poisonwood is found in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. The locals have an interesting solution if you should be so unlucky as to touch it.
Plus, the article’s author eats a fruit from the manchineel tree, and lives to tell the painful tale.
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