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  2. Manchineel - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. File:Hippomane mancinella, the Death Apple (11239909065).jpg

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    manzana del muerto, manchineel very poisonous! Hippomane mancinella Euphorbia Bastimentos Isl beach, NW Panama DG.Pan ; Camera manufacturer: SONY: Camera model: DSC-H9: Exposure time: 1/160 sec (0.00625) F-number: f/4.5: ISO speed rating: 100: Date and time of data generation: 21:01, 26 January 2008: Lens focal length: 57.6 mm: Orientation

  4. Have you ever seen a poisonous 'little apple of death' tree?

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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 ...

  5. File:Hippomane mancinella (fruit).jpg - Wikipedia

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  6. Manzanilla Beach, Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

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    The beach was so named by early Spanish settlers, who encountered what they thought were apple trees with small fruit. They were in fact the manchineel tree, bearing toxic fruit that closely resembles apples. [2] The name of the area was still maintained even after the arrival of the British in 1797.

  7. Manzanilla - Wikipedia

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    Manzanilla de la muerte (Spanish: "little apple of death"), manchineel in English (Hippomane mancinella), a tree with apple-like but poisonous fruit Manzanilla olive ( Olea europaea ), a common variety of Spanish olive cultivar

  8. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    All parts of this tree, including the fruit, contain toxic phorbol esters typical of the Euphorbiaceae. Specifically the tree contains 12-deoxy-5-hydroxyphorbol-6gamma, 7alpha-oxide, hippomanins, mancinellin, sapogenin, and phloracetophenone-2, and 4-dimethylether is present in the leaves, while the fruits possess physostigmine. [134]

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