euphorbiaceae
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№ 237TreesJatropha: The Biofuel Miracle That Wasn't
A tough, poisonous, oil-seeded shrub hailed as the wonder biofuel that would green deserts and power the world from wasteland — until billions of dollars of plantations failed, in one of the great agricultural bubbles of the century.
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№ 409TreesSandbox Tree: The Dynamite Tree That Fires Its Seeds
A spiny tropical giant whose ripe seed pods explode like grenades, flinging their seeds at seventy metres a second — armoured with a caustic, poisonous sap once smeared on arrows and poured into rivers to stun fish.
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№ 503TreesTung and Candlenut: The Trees That Gave Oil, Varnish, and Light
Two spurge-family trees whose oily seeds finished the world's woodwork and lit its lamps — tung oil, the classic wood finish, and the candlenut, once burned whole as a candle.
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