Thanks Red Badger. Seems like there's been a topic about this, but poison trees are worth at least another look, particularly for those who travel in the winter.
Posted on 11/10/2021 9:36:42 AM PST by Red Badger
Thanks Red Badger. Seems like there's been a topic about this, but poison trees are worth at least another look, particularly for those who travel in the winter.
Let’s get Mikey to eat it!
Sounds like it could be a new generation Z game since Tide-pods faded out.
“We found our experience frightening.”
To say the least.
You would think an educated “Woman of Science” would know better than to just pop something in her mouth because it looked nice. Curiousity almost killed that cat.
There must be a use for this tree’s chemicals. God don’t make no junk!....................
In 1999, radiologist Nicola Strickland went on a holiday to the Caribbean island of Tobago, a tropical paradise complete with idyllic, deserted beaches.
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Now we know why the beaches are deserted.
Or maybe he just wants to weed out the nimrods.
They look like White “Paperbark” Birch (Betula papyrifera)...
Had some indirect experience with this tree in a place called manchoneel bay, off Cooper Island, BVI. The things are all over the hillsides. We were having lunch at the Beach Club when someone on one of the nearby moored sailboats was having a manchoneel “attack”. The place was swarmed with Virgin Island Search and Rescue who hauled the person(s?) away at high speed. Our waitress said it happens a couple times a year. Never heard how it turned out for them.
Thus was born the 8 hour pina colada cure
AFTER 8 HOURS OF Pina COLADAS YOU DON’T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE!............
Probably should put a statue on the ground there, showing a dying guy holding one of the fruits with a bite taken out of it. That would require no multilingual caption. :^)
Education is a cure for ignorance...not stupidity.
I went there on the SV Flying Cloud for my honeymoon 25 years ago.
Back when Windjammer Barefoot Cruises was still in business.
That was one of the things they told us. Do not touch the trees, fruit, etc.
We spent most of the time in the water.
I remember meeting the guy who owned the island. He had inherited it from his dad. His great great grandfather had been a slave on the sugar cane plantation there.
LOL
Radiologists pretending to be Anesthesiologists and Pathologists.
Pffffttttttt.........
But not Botanists...................
didn’t Mom tell you not to pick up stuff from the ground and put them in your mouth?
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