Meet America's deadliest tree.
May. 23rd, 2016 03:29 pmI giggled through this.
Carrying on from the Nile Crocodiles ...
Do Not Eat, Touch, Or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree
Meet America's deadliest tree. Found in Florida, of course.
By Dan Nosowitz MAY 19, 2016
The fruit of the Manchineel tree. (Photo: Barry Stock/CC BY-SA 2.0)
Throughout the coasts of the Caribbean, Central America, the northern edges of South America, and even in south Florida, there can be found a pleasant-looking beachy sort of tree, often laden with small greenish-yellow fruits that look not unlike apples.
You might be tempted to eat the fruit. Do not eat the fruit. You might want to rest your hand on the trunk, or touch a branch. Do not touch the tree trunk or any branches. Do not stand under or even near the tree for any length of time whatsoever. Do not touch your eyes while near the tree. Do not pick up any of the ominously shiny, tropic-green leaves. If you want to slowly but firmly back away from this tree, you would not find any argument from any botanist who has studied it.
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Carrying on from the Nile Crocodiles ...
Do Not Eat, Touch, Or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree
Meet America's deadliest tree. Found in Florida, of course.
By Dan Nosowitz MAY 19, 2016

Throughout the coasts of the Caribbean, Central America, the northern edges of South America, and even in south Florida, there can be found a pleasant-looking beachy sort of tree, often laden with small greenish-yellow fruits that look not unlike apples.
You might be tempted to eat the fruit. Do not eat the fruit. You might want to rest your hand on the trunk, or touch a branch. Do not touch the tree trunk or any branches. Do not stand under or even near the tree for any length of time whatsoever. Do not touch your eyes while near the tree. Do not pick up any of the ominously shiny, tropic-green leaves. If you want to slowly but firmly back away from this tree, you would not find any argument from any botanist who has studied it.