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Manchineel is native to the Caribbean, the U.S. state of Florida, the Bahamas, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. [8] The manchineel tree can be found on coastal beaches and in brackish swamps, where it grows among mangroves. It provides excellent natural windbreaks and its roots stabilize the sand, thus reducing beach erosion ...
Description: The Manzana de Muerte, better known as Manchineel, is a very poisonous species found around the Caribbean and northern Neotropics. Photo from Bastimentos Island, northwestern Panama.
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Burning a Manchineel tree can even cause blindness if the smoke gets in your eyes. Manchineel trees aren't all bad, though. They are found on coastal beaches where their roots stabilize the sand ...
Contact with the milky white latex produces strong allergic dermatitis. [135] Standing beneath the tree during rain can cause blistering of the skin from even a small drop of rain with the latex in it. Burning tree parts may cause blindness if the smoke reaches the eyes. The fruit can also be fatal if eaten.
Also, keep in mind that the notoriety of the manchineel as fearsomely toxic has as much, or more, to do with its encyclopedic interest as does its purely biological reality. This is a general-interest encyclopedia, not an encyclopedia of biology. The manchineel is not just another plant, any more than the king cobra is just another vertebrate.
In addition to the lives lost, the fires have destroyed countless homes, stores and potentially even a 150-year-old banyan tree that has been revered for decades by residents and visitors alike.
The Zulu also refer to E. cupularis as umbhulelo: a harmful poison or medicine used in a trap, [10] of which umdlebe is one, or an ingredient of one. [11] [12] Used by witches, [13] it is usually considered wholly vile, any association with umdlebe is proof the person in question is an umthakathi: [14] one who secretly uses evil medicine or charms.