SciShow: The Little Apple of Death

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Content of the Lesson: If you find some trees with little apple-like fruits by the ocean, beware! It might be a Manchineel, the world's most dangerous tree. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000130003 https://www.sciencealert.com/do-not-stand-under-world-s-most-dangerous-tree-manchineel-tree https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.13560 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC504506/?page=4 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/phorbol https://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/esters/background.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127797/ https://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Hippomane_mancinella.pdf https://www.nps.gov/ever/learn/nature/plants.htm https://www.nps.gov/ever/learn/nature/barkingupatree.htm https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/182.html https://www.regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/plantdetail.asp?tx=Hippmanc https://www.britannica.com/plant/Euphorbiaceae https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127797/ https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-dangerous-tree-/ https://www.dcbd.nl/sites/www.dcbd.nl/files/documents/VanWagensveld_TheBiologyAndDistributionOfIguanaDeliOnStatia_2015.pdf Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/manchineel-tree-gm637597020-113810063 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/a-rainy-day-in-the-valley-background-smpxx3yjmjhfmz3le https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/manchineel-trees-at-cades-bay-gm172638681-5007368 https://www.google.com/url?q=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Spiny-tailed_Iguana._Ctenosaura_similis_(43273788601).jpg&sa=D&ust=1587398748700000&usg=AFQjCNGqDz6RzJKhPjCo777RAORtmse6Sg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippomane_mancenilla_port.JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/phoenicopterus-ruber-gm468008363-34142028 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Mancenillier2.JPG


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