• @Etterra
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    167 months ago

    Human: I outsmarted every plant with this MO; no toxic plant can defeat me.

    Manchineel Tree: Challenge accepted.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      147 months ago

      “Challenge accepted”
      -Unknown person

      When ingested, the fruit is reportedly “pleasantly sweet” at first, with a subsequent “strange peppery feeling … gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat.” Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can “barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump.”