sapindaceae
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№ 004TreesAckee: Jamaica's National Fruit and Its Deadly Twin Toxin
A West African tree, carried to the Caribbean on a slave ship and named for a mutineer's captain, whose fruit must be eaten at exactly the right moment — too early and it causes a lethal 'vomiting sickness'.
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№ 190TreesGolden Rain Tree: Yellow Flowers and Papery Lanterns
A tough Asian street tree that flowers gold in high summer when little else does, then hangs itself with pink papery lanterns — beloved by bees, and quietly invasive where it seeds too well.
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№ 274TreesLychee and Longan: Jewel-Fruited Trees of the Soapberry Family
Subtropical evergreens bearing translucent aril fruit, kin to the maples, that flower only after a cool dry winter — and one of which carries a genuine poisoning risk.
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