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• The pain is excruciating and large weeping welts soon form. An Australian man named Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the plant in 1963, described his experience: “For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn’t work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.”

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• In rainforests of Australia and Indonesia, there’s an innocent-looking shrub with heart-shaped leaves, dubbed with the Aboriginal name of the “gympie gypmie tree.” Don’t let its innocent looks and humorous name fool you; it’s also known as “the suicide tree.”

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